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Comcast Spinoff: NBCUniversal And Sky Will Leave CMCSA Next

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Comcast spinoff image showing broadband infrastructure splitting from media and entertainment assets

Comcast is not finished taking itself apart. The company completed the Versant spinoff earlier this year, separating cable networks such as CNBC, MSNBC, USA Network, E!, Syfy, Oxygen, Golf Channel, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes and related assets into a standalone public company. Now Comcast is going bigger. Comcast announced plans to separate NBCUniversal and Sky into a new publicly… Read More »

Sunday Spinoff Odds & Ends: ABB’s Robot Reversal, Coty Weighs Spinoff, Comcast’s Versant Loan

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Another week, another mix of spinoffs, near-spinoffs, and spin-offs-that-weren’t. Here’s what caught our eye this week. ABB’s Robot Spinoff Becomes a $38 Billion Sale to SoftBank ABB Ltd.(ABBNY) had been widely expected to spin off its robotics division — a move long anticipated by investors as the final step in ABB’s multi-year simplification effort. Instead, the Swiss industrial… Read More »