Streaming giant Netflix has announced it will create 400 jobs at its new European customer service hub which opened this week in Amsterdam. Supporting customers across 11 European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden and the UK), the multilingual hub will employ initially a workforce of 170, growing to […]
Improbable, a London-based virtual reality firm, has raised $500 million (€460m) in one of the biggest investments in an early stage European technology business. Improbable was founded five years ago by Herman Narula and Rob Whitehead, who studied computer science together at Cambridge University. Their aim was to build large-scale virtual worlds and simulations – […]
SkyPerfect/JSat has agreed to invest in would-be broadband operator LeoSat. LeoSat is proposing a fleet of up to 108 Low Earth Orbiting satellites which will use laser-beam optical link technology to provide what is claimed to be the fastest and most secure data network available anywhere – on Earth or in space. SkyPerfect/JSat Corp (SJC) […]
TCL, one of the world’s largest and America’s fastest-growing television brand, has revealed pricing and availability of its 4K HDR TCL Roku TV models. The new US portfolio, shown for the first time at the 2017 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, includes two premium lines of TCL TVs that deliver Dolby Vision HDR […]
FuboTV, a US sports-first streaming TV service, bringing its subscribers yet another way to access sports, news and entertainment programming from its network partners. In addition to streaming programming live, on demand or via DVR on fubo.tv, and through Fubo’s mobile and OTT apps, subscribers can now use their fuboTV name and password to log […]
Eurosport has partnered with software and solutions provider CA Technologies in a cross-platform sponsorship and integrated technology collaboration. Central to the partnership is the creation a second-screen app experience for cycling fans which launches during Eurosport’s ongoing coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Using CA API Management and CA App Experience Analytics tools, for the first […]
Bloomberg Media is introducing the next evolution of the Bloomberg app on Apple TV, which it suggests represents a major step forward for the future of television where there will be a stronger relationship between users and content. “We want to give the power back to you with what we feel is a vastly smarter […]
In the run-up to the elections in Iran, BBC Persian is launching its digital-first TV programme. From May 13th, #Shoma invites audiences across platforms to share their opinions and stories. Saturday to Wednesday live interactive programme, #Shoma (“#You”) delivers innovative and creative ways to engage with the audience on TV, the website and via social […]
Findings from analyst firm The Diffusion Group suggest that more than half of Cord Cutters cancelled their legacy pay-TV service in the two calendar years of 2015 and 2016. It says that remarkably, one-third of Cord Cutters cancelled service in 2016 alone. According to Michael Greeson, Co-Founder and Principal at The Diffusion Group (TDG), the […]
UK’s BT is set to cut 4,000 jobs following a “challenging” year that has seen its chief executive stripped of his annual bonus amid a 19 per cent fall in profits to £2.4 billion (€2.8bn). The group’s outgoing finance director, Tony Chanmugam, was also stripped of bonuses. The moves follow BT’s accounting scandal in Italy […]