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Brian Roberts

Brian Michael Roberts (born October 9, 1977) is an American Major League Baseball All Star second baseman, nicknamed B-Rob.

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Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) beat the Street on Wednesday with a 30% leap in first-quarter profits as the largest U.

S. cable operator sharply boosted its Internet subscribers and improved earnings at NBC Universal.Despite the stronger-than-expected figures, shares of Philadelphia-based Comcast retreated 3% ahead of the opening bell.The cable giant said it earned $1.22 billion last quarter, up from $943 million the year before. Excluding costs tied to its $30 billion takeover of NBCU from General Electric (NYSE:GE), it earned 45 cents a share. Analysts had called for EPS of 42 cents.Comcast said its revenue soared 23% to $14.88 billion, topping the Street's view of $14.43 billion. Revenue was up a more modest 9.6% after removing the NBCU contributions.The first-quarter results were buoyed by a 439,000 surge in high-speed Internet customers as well as a 164,000 increase in voice customers year-over-year.However, Comcast said its video subscriber base shrank by 37,000 compared with the first qu...

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