Cisco Systems has agreed to buy US business software company AppDynamics Inc for about $3.7 billion (€3.4bn), making one of its largest deals of recent years. Rob Salvagno, Cisco’s vice president of corporate development, said that the acquisition fits Cisco’s long-term direction and its transition toward software. AppDynamics makes software that manages and analyses apps […]
South Africa’s parliament is urgently looking for five “fit and proper” people to run the country’s SABC public broadcaster, following a series of scandals and missteps. The new appointees will form an interim board for the next six months. Currently the SABC is being run without a board, and amidst press reports that the previous […]
Mega-Choice Digital Network, an associate company of Crystal TV, Ghana’s first private television network, has officialised the launch of its new DTH TV service in Ghana at the International Summit on Content Management for Digital Broadcasting and Media taking place in Accra. A ten-year contract has been inked with Eutelsat Communications for capacity connected to […]
SpotX, the video inventory management platform, is expanding its operations in Stockholm with two new hires. Daniel Wohlfart joins as Director of Operations and Account Management. He brings six years of advertising technology experience including four years at Ooyala (formerly VideoPlaza). Sabine Janetzki joins from Spotify where she worked as a sales planner. She brings […]
Arianespace is preparing for its first Ariane-5 launch of the year. The launch, scheduled for mid-February, sees Sky Brasil-1, a satellite for operation by DirecTV Latin America to expand the delivery of HD, 3D television and cinema programming throughout Brazil. Sky Brasil-1 was built by Airbus Defence and Space based on the EuroStar 3000 platform, […]
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, says his rocket company will not be attempting to re-land after it has launched Echostar-23 into its high geostationary transfer orbit on January 30th. The reason is that the satellite is especially heavy (at about 5.5 metric tonnes) and SpaceX will need just about all of the Falcon 9 rocket’s […]
Entertainment network EPIX has reveaed it will offer EPIX content through an app that enables authenticated subscribers to access its library of more than 2,000 Hollywood movies on TiVo devices. The app will first launch with Atlantic Broadband, the ninth-largest cable operator in the US. Any Atlantic Broadband customer with a TiVo device will be […]
Amagi, a specialist in cloud-based managed broadcast services, has announced that Viacom18 has launched Rishtey Cineplex in the US, using its CLOUDPORT managed services. Rishtey Cineplex is a Hindi movie channel that airs Bollywood movies, along with Hindi-dubbed South Indian movies. The channel is part of a growing bouquet of offerings from the Indian media […]
Osprey Video has formed a partnership with Belgium-based multilingual streaming company Streamovations. The partnership allows the two companies’ customers to stream events in multiple languages through a single turnkey system based on Streamovations’ software that’s certified to work with Osprey Video’s hardware. “Many organisations need to share live video on the web in multiple languages […]
Telestream, a provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, will use CABSAT to provide updates on significant new developments in streaming, quality control and workflow automation products. Focusing on its Vantage media processing platform, Telestream will demonstrate its ability to prepare and distribute media through any particular channel at the right cost level in […]