John Malone’s cable giant Charter has struck a deal with Comcast to distribute Comcast’s Flex streaming TV devices and XClass smart TVs to Charter customers, making Comcast’s devices a bigger threat to Roku. Charter will invest $900 million in a venture jointly owned with Comcast for distribution of the devices, which will be sold through retailers that already sell the TVs. The move means...
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