If its merger with Time Warner Cable is approved, Comcast will begin to take its place "as a global technology company and its major competitors the media companies of the future: Google, Amazon,
Facebook and even Apple, with which Comcast has been engaging in tentative negotiations," according to the way the company's chief, Eric Roberts, sees it, writes James B. Stewart. “The
alternative was to sit around and let cable die a slow death,” Roberts says.
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