National broadcaster Vietnam Television (VTV) has revealed will disinvest from the pay-TV market by selling most of its stakes in three major providers, whose combined market share is almost 73 per cent. VTV will sell 49 per cent stake in VTVcab, which boasts two million subscribers mainly in the northern region, Hoang Ngoc Huan, CEO […]
ARRIS Group has announced preliminary and unaudited financial results for the third quarter 2015. “Our third quarter results were in line with our expectations and are lower than the third quarter of last year when we were launching an unprecedented number of new products. We continue to encounter headwinds, in particular, those related to telco […]
Arxan Technologies, a provider of application protection solutions, has announced expanded application security protections for the Apple tvOS platform. A number of the applications which come pre-installed on the newly announced Apple TV are already protected by Arxan with the most advanced application security measures designed to assure app performance, protect sensitive data, and prevent […]
Regular (monthly) Netflix users in the US have grown even more dependent on the service for viewing TV programming, saying they watch 10 shows per week via the platform – as well as four movies during the same timeframe. For TV content, this represents a doubling of the level (five shows per week) found in […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared dominant telco BT’s anticipated £12.5 billion (€15.8bn) acquisition of mobile operator EE. The CMA inquiry group had been looking at how the tie-up would affect competition in a number of different areas of the telecoms sector. As well as looking at how the merger might […]
Twitter stock dropped by more than 10 per cent on Tuesday after the social media outfit revealed it had failed to add any new users in the US for the second quarter in a row. In order to halt the slowdown Twitter is turning to old media, it will start airing TV ads during the […]
SpaceX’s president Gwynne Shotwell, speaking at the Hong Kong CASBAA convention on October 27th, said that far from backing a 4000 constellation of satellites, the scheme is “very speculative” at the moment. Shotwell told delegates that the concept was being looked at but a deeper assessment of its business case was needed. “We don’t have […]
YouTube will pay creators for clips watched during a free trial of its new subscription service. YouTube launched a trial premium service in the US, removing ads for a monthly fee. Prominent YouTube stars had expressed concerns that they would not be paid if their videos were watched during the month-long free trial on offer. […]
Telefonica is taking its Wi-Fi, online video and VoD services to the trains operated by the Spain’s public railway company Renfe. The first services will be available on high speed trains (AVE) between Madrid and Barcelona following an agreement between both companies. With the technology company Indra, Telefonica will launch a content platform for mobile […]
Cisco’s has confirmed intent to acquire 1 Mainstream, a privately held company that offers a cloud-based video platform to launch live and on-demand OTT video services to a variety of devices. “Acquisitions are a foundational element of Cisco’s build, buy, partner, invest and co-develop approach to innovation,” Rob Salvagno, vice president of corporate development at Cisco. […]