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If you couldn’t reach your favorite websites Friday at about 12:30 p.m. ET, it wasn’t just you.  Subscribers of Comcast’s Xfinity TV, internet and phone services around the country took to Twitter with complaints about outages. Downdetector’s graphs displayed the same spike in complaints from almost every site it monitors. The graphs soon began to retreat …

Historians may look back on this week as a turning point in the evolution of the internet. First came the end of net neutrality rules, which were officially taken off the books on Monday. These rules of the road ensured that broadband and wireless providers couldn’t act as gatekeepers picking and choosing who succeeds on the internet and who doesn’t. …

Could we see a bidding war for 21st Century Fox? Comcast, the nation’s largest cable television provider, on Wednesday offered $65 billion in cash to buy 21st Century Fox’s film and TV studios, a bid that comes on top of an existing $52.4 billion, all-stock offer by Disney. Fox is home to marquee franchises like X-Men, Deadpool, Kingsmen, and Planet …

Daenerys Targaryen, Superman and Harry Potter are all headed to AT&T after all. AT&T won the right to complete its $85 billion takeover of Time Warner, which includes various media properties such as DC Entertainment and HBO, after US District Judge Richard Leon on Tuesday declined the Justice Department’s request to block the deal. Leon also didn’t impose any conditions …

Comcast confirmed Wednesday it’s having some phone trouble nationwide. Several major cities are affected, according to the website Down Detector, including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Portland, Houston, Denver, Philadelphia and Seattle, and many small businesses are taking to social media to tweet that they can’t take calls. As of Thursday, June 7, Comcast service hasn’t entirely been restored. Comcast …

James Murdoch has some advice for non-media companies looking to enter the space: be tolerant of failure and have patience.  That goes for companies “dabbling” in TV content production. Namely, Apple. “Going piece by piece, one by one, show by show, it’s going to take a long time to really move the dial and have something,” Murdoch said in reference …

A website meant to set up Xfinity internet service may have exposed customers’ Wi-Fi names and passwords. Luckily, Comcast already has this bug under control. The Xfinity site asked for a person’s account ID and home address in order to activate that home’s router, but once you entered this information it showed that home’s router name and password in plaintext, reported …

Comcast is rounding up financing to make an all-cash $52 billion bid to acquire most of 21st Century Fox’s assets, Reuters reported Monday. The US cable giant’s deal would upset Walt Disney’s proposed deal with Fox. In December, Disney agreed to purchase 21st Century Fox in a $52.4 billion all-stock deal. Comcast’s 21st Century Fox bid is the latest in a frenzied …

Comcast customers will be able to take advantage of new speed increases in Xfinity internet service packages, but reportedly there’s a catch: They’ll have to pay for both internet and TV service. Comcast said last week that it would be increasing the speeds of its Xfinity Internet service packages for millions of customers in Houston and the Oregon and southwest …

An attempt in California to replace the FCC’s repealed Obama-era net neutrality rules faces its first legislative test Tuesday. Senate Bill 822, written by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, will get its first hearing before the Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, which could gut key provisions of the legislation. In its original form, the California bill offers consumers …