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Why is MoviePass down? It temporarily ran out of money

Popular movie-ticket subscription service MoviePass experienced an outage on Thursday, still ongoing for some, which the company attributed to “technical issues with our card-based check-in process,” on its Twitter feed.  But its SEC filing Thursday indicated that the problem was really cash flow — the company ran out of money and couldn’t pay for tickets. The filing by its parent …

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New York revokes approval of the Charter

New York state regulators are reneging on their approval of the Charter Communications acquisition of Time Warner Cable, alleging the cable provider broke its promise to deliver high-speed broadband to rural customers. Charter, the second-largest cable provider in the US after Comcast, completed its $56.7 billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable in 2016. The company has since rebranded itself …

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