AT&T Woos Microsoft, Disney

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NEW YORK — AT&T Corp. executives, trying to court potential suitors and partners for the company’s cable-TV business, held meetings Friday with officials of Microsoft Corp. and Walt Disney Co., people familiar with the talks told The Wall Street Journal.

Three weeks after AT&T’s board rejected an unsolicited $40 billion stock bid from Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) for AT&T Broadband, Chief Executive C. Michael Armstrong went on the road to explore potential deals or investments and to follow up with companies that have approached AT&T (T) about the unit.


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