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Comcast to Buy 51% of NBC, GE Goes After 49%
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Comcast and General Electric announced a joint venture yesterday to control NBC Universal, with Comcast coming out with the controlling interest. Comcast's hopes seem to be on succeeding in a marriage of distribution and content, where Time Warner failed. "The deal was approved by the companies' boards, and is subject to regulatory approval. GE said it expects the deal to go through in the third quarter of 2010. Congress has already said it will hold a hearing to investigate whether Comcast will gain 'undue advantages' from the deal that gives it access to programming."
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Translation: I have a fleshlight and my "job" is to make sure the house is swept and I clean the bathrooms every day before I can post on Slashdot otherwise I don't get my weekly allowance.
First off, it's a G5.
Second if Microsoft had released a "security update" that killed a computer and made it unbootable, slashdot would be up in arms. But it's okay for Apple? No problemo? A-okay? Double standard.
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