African triple-play operator Wananchi Group, owner of the Zuku Fiber, Zuku pay-TV and Simbanet business services brands, has raised $130 million to fund its growth and expansion in East and Southern Africa. “The new capital investment will be used to consolidate the group’s market leadership in East Africa and to extend our services across East […]
Forrester’s Western European Online Display Advertising Forecast projects that online display advertising spend will rise at a CAGR of 10.3 per cent between 2014 and 2019, jumping from €7.3 billion to €11.9billion. Two factors will account for the double-digit growth rate:
Serbia’s government says that around 38 per cent of homes in the country will have to buy a new digital set-top box because their TV sets are not suitable for digital TV reception. Serbia’s Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Tatjana Matic said the upcoming changes to all-digital broadcasting would impact 800,000 – 1 million […]
Technology trade association the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) predicts the 2014 holiday season will see the highest levels of consumer spending on consumer electronics (CE) since CEA began tracking holiday spending in 1994. According to CEA’s holiday outlook, total tech spending during the holidays will increase 2.5 per cent (up from 0.9 per cent growth […]
Dawn Prestwich, a television writer and producer best known for The Killing, has criticised so-called ‘privateers’ who operate websites that allow people to access content illegally, pointing out the adverse impact it has on the creative process. Writing a Guest Column for entertainment trade daily Variety, Prestwich noted that in a recent New York Times […]
Q2 data contained in a report from Synergy Research Group shows that client software is the fastest growing software category within the video infrastructure software market, followed by headend software. They have grown by 10 per cent-20 per cent in the past year while the third major category, content security, has actually declined. In total […]
TalkTalk TV homes can now watch Sky Sports and Sky Movies for £20 a month, for three months, giving them access to the latest films and more of the Barclays Premier League matches that matter. Following the success of TalkTalk’s Sky Sports half-price offer, TalkTalk has combined Sky Movies and Sky Sports Boosts saving homes […]
NeuLion, an enabler and provider of live and on-demand content to Internet-connected devices, has announced that Big Ten Network (BTN) is now powering BTN2Go, the network’s digital extension, and BTN Plus, a subscription service within BTN2Go, with the NeuLion TV Everywhere Platform. “Leveraging the strength and agility of our platform, fans can access BTN’s mobile […]
Techonlogy company S3 Group, has announced that BT has significantly scaled up its deployment of StormTest Development Center, and made S3 Group its preferred supplier for test automation and monitoring. S3 Group’s video test automation platform, StormTest, provides BT with advanced, end-to-end service validation capabilities that encompass CPE, headend, and Business and Operations Support Systems […]
UPC DTH, a satellite television provider in Central and Eastern Europe, has confirmed the addition of Comedy Central Extra in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. Paramount Movie Channel will be also added to the UPC Direct services in Hungary and Focus Sat services in Romania as well as Nick Jr channel in Hungary. […]