Lawyers

• Comcast discusses deal to buy DreamWorks Animation for more than $3 billion

  Comcast is in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation for more than $3 billion. Sources even claimed that the deal could make the U.S. cable giant a rival to Walt Disney Co in the entertainment industry.

• Comcast reaches $33 million settlement with California over privacy violations

  Comcast Corp has reached a $33 million settlement with California over allegations that the cable company posted personal details of customers online, state Attorney General Kamala Harris said in a statement on Thursday.

• Comcast, Time Warner Cable hit with $20 billion racial bias lawsuit

  Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc have been sued for $20 billion for allegedly discriminating against African American-owned media and employing advocates such as the NAACP and the Rev. Al Sharpton to advance their bias.

• NBC to investigate anchor Williams' Iraq war reporting

  NBC launched an internal probe on Friday into top-rated "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams' debunked claim that he was aboard a helicopter that was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.

• 20 states join U.S. antitrust probe of Family Dollar merger

  Some 20 state attorneys general have joined the federal antitrust investigation of competing bids by Dollar General Corp (DG.N) and Dollar Tree Inc (DLTR.O) to buy Family Dollar Stores Inc (FDO.N), a development that potentially complicates the companies' efforts to win U.S. approval for a deal.

• U.S. regulator wants faster speeds for Internet broadband

  The head of the U.S. FCC on Wednesday proposed raising the definition of the high-speed Internet to downloads at 25 megabits per second (Mbps), a more than a six-fold increase from the current standard.

• Comcast, AT&T seek to reassure on no plans for Internet 'fast lanes'

  Comcast Corp and AT&T Inc have no plans to create Internet "fast lanes" that may hurt consumers' freedom to roam the Web, the leading U.S. broadband providers told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman in recent letters.

• Comcast, Netflix at odds over interpretation of net neutrality

  Buzzfeed observed that the chief executive officers of Comcast Corp and Netflix Inc, whose companies are incidentally partners, have different views about net neutrality in a tech conference in San Francisco.

• Comcast says Time Warner Cable is not anti-competitive

  In a detailed filing with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, Comcast Entertainment Group assured that the merger with Time Warner Cable does not violate anti-competition laws, and claimed that it will also help further the reach of net neutrality.

• Netflix CEO supports net neutrality, calls out ISPs over transmission fees

  Netflix Inc chief executive Reed Hastings said in a statement filed to the Federal Communications Commission that ISPs take advantage of their market position to provide Web connection speed, Newsday said.

• Time Warner Cable Shareholder attempts to halt $45B Comcast deal with lawsuit

  According to his lawsuit filed filed in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan today, investor Breffni Barrett believed that the people who would benefit from the Comcast Group merger would be the management of Time Warner Cable Inc, who would stand to receive benefits including over $60 million in special payments.

• Regulators could stall, unwind Comcast-Time Warner deal

  The Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission would most likely come in the way of the proposed landmark merger between Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable, a Wall Street Journal report said.