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● 01.18.09

●● Noted: Microsoft Has Money in Comcast

Posted in Finance, GNU/Linux, Google, Microsoft at 5:26 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Might as well call it “Comcastsoft”?

For quite a few months we were exploring the Microsoft-Comcast relationship and attempted to explain Comcast’s hostility towards the Web, towards GNU/Linux, towards Google, and also its sheer neglect of the law.

=> exploring the Microsoft-Comcast relationship

We already knew that Microsoft had invested a considerable amount of money in Comcast around 1997 ($1 billion). Microsoft buys love from other cable companies worldwide, but the following report suggests that while an investment in Comcast has remained since, it is currently much smaller.

=> invested a considerable amount of money in Comcast around 1997 | ↺ it is currently much smaller

Microsoft Corp. has liquidated its 7.3 percent stake in Comcast Corp.’s Class A shares, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday.[...]Microsoft acquired 115 million Comcast shares in 2002 as part of a deal related to Comcast’s acquisition of AT&T Broadband.

In order to explains any company’s corporate behaviour, such as its attitude towards players in other areas, partnerships like this one must be realised and remembered. █

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