4/27: Comcast earnings blows past estimates; AWS sales increased 42 percent to $3.66 billion
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Comcast earnings blow past estimates, driven by film business success (CNBC)
Roberts: "Its an exhilarating time to be in business"
Comcast's $CMCSA market cap up to $192 billion this morning
— tom paine (@phillytechnews) April 27, 2017
Verizon's (VZ) is $195 billion
— tom paine (@phillytechnews) April 27, 2017
Comcast Nears Launch of ‘xFi’ Home WiFi Platform (Multichannel News)
MSO now has nearly 1 million Xfinity Home subscribers.
Comcast, the largest broadband company in the U.S., is getting even bigger (Recode)
Why Comcast Already Sounds So Bored With Wireless (Fortune)
Comcast’s Watson: Too early to consider 5G a threat to fixed wireline broadband (FierceCable)
What Comcast bought and sold in the FCC auction (Philly.com)
Big telecom deals to watch (Axios)
Amazon surges on big earnings and sales beat (CNBC)
AWS sales increased 42 percent to $3.66 billion.
For the first time, Amazon reported quarterly revenues for logistics. Last time it broke out a new category was AWS. https://t.co/YgjSWs5A0q
— Leslie Hook (@lesliehook) April 27, 2017
Purdue acquires for-profit Kaplan University (Washington Post)
Can they play football?
PayPal partnerships pay off, and Venmo could take off next (Marketwatch)
Apple is in talks to launch its own Venmo (Recode)
Venmo, if you don't know, originated in Philly.
Escalated Cord-Cutting, Rights Fees Among Reasons Cited For ESPN's Massive Layoffs (SportsBusinessDaily)
Who is winning the connected TV war?
— Rich Greenfield (@RichBTIG) April 27, 2017
The answer may surprise you via @comscore@RokuPlayer@amazonfiretv@Chromecast#AppleTV pic.twitter.com/5LLidP8XaH
Grid operator urges cooperation if states want to preserve nuclear plants (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
