Baidu, the Chinese language Internet search provider, is buying the online video business of Internet video provider PPS for $370 million to create China’s largest online video platform by number of mobile users and video viewing time. Baidu and PPS expect the transaction to close in the second quarter of 2013, subject to customary closing […]
China’s EKT (Eagle Kingdom Technologies), a supplier of advanced STB solutions and iP4 (iP4.tv GmbH), a developer of advanced STB middleware called solidTV, have joined forces in a merger that sees a seamless integration of the iP4.tv STB middleware and the Advanced Hardware solutions from EKT. The merger allows EKT to offer cost effective solutions […]
Cable giant DEN Networks is to raise $160 million in a share sale. DEN has some 11 million homes in its cable system and is heavily involved in India’s digitisation process. The cash is being raised via Goldman Sachs’ Singapore office where Broad Street Investments and MBD Bridge Street 2013 Investments will take a total […]
Google Fiber has been sold to roughly a third of homes in the few neighbourhoods where it’s offered in Kansas City, US. Bernstein Research surveyed about 200 homes in the narrow areas where the high-speed Internet and TV service is offered, or where it soon will be. It found that of the third subscribing to […]
Samsung has acquired up MOVL, a company known for smart TV games and its TV app development platform. Samsung acquired the Atlanta-based startup last month but hasn’t been reported until now. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed. A MOVL spokesperson released the following statement: “In April 2013, two years after inception, MOVL has officially […]
Advertisements are again being played on India’s most popular TV channels. The stalemate between the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), representing the broadcasters, and how they billed ad agencies over the commercials they carried, has been resolved. IBF board member and Star India CEO Uday Shankar told local reporters: “We have an agreement to do net […]
Recognising that historically, media companies have needed to juggle separate back-end systems for managing live online events and the rest of their premium video assets, white-label video publishing company thePlatform has introduced a single Web-based console to schedule and manage live signal acquisition and encoding, handle dynamic advertising insertion and metadata creation, and automatically archive […]
As part of its continued penetration of the media and broadcast sector, Geo Networks has announced a 10 year contract with new media data centre, The DataRoom London (DataRoom). Geo is to provide dark fibre to south London-based DataRoom, linking it to Geo’s 3,000km network to facilitate connectivity to over 100 data centres and media […]
In April, Levira appointed Tarmo Osman as the new director of the Network Services Division. He is responsible for managing TV and radio services and telecommunications at Levira. “Tarmo brings a wealth of experience and fresh energy to the company management. His long experience in the field, both in Estonia and abroad, is a good […]
Now that the dust has settled down on BSkyB’s Q3 results, perhaps it is time to reflect on the overall state of play in UK pay-TV. First, and provided you ignore the deliberate fudge over actual DTH net new subscriptions, which for Q3 were probably – at best – about 5,000, but if you just […]