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Comcast said Thursday that its Xfinity TV customers who also subscribe to Showtime will be able to download Dexter , Homeland and other hit original series to Apple and Android tablets and smartphones for offline viewing.

Google's recent bid to launch TV service, including channels from Starz and Showtime, over its Kansas City fiber properties apparently has caught the attention of Time Warner Cable. The cable TV incumbent in that market reported plans to hire more than 80 new employees locally in an efforts to boost its Kansas City workforce by about 9 percent.

Google said Friday that it struck deals with Showtime Networks and Starz which will allow it to distribute packages of premium channels to subscribers in the Kansas City area who sign up for its upcoming Google Fiber TV service.

DirecTV ( Nasdaq:DTV ) updated apps that it has developed for mobile phones and tablets that run Google's ( Nasdaq:GOOG ) Android operating system, letting subscribers access TV series and movies from

DirecTV ( Nasdaq: DTV ) said a carriage deal it struck with Starz Entertainment includes rights to distribute movies and TV series from Starz, Encore and other networks owned by the premium content

So, what's special about today? We'll, it's Feb. 29, Leap Year, that once-every-four-years event that is so, well, meaningless to everyone not born on Feb. 29. Here's another event that happens