SpaceX lost a core rocket on April 15th. The rocket fell overboard from its floating drone barge in rough Atlantic seas off Florida. The rocket had formed the central portion of a 3-rocket assembly which launched Arabsat 6A last week, and had landed on the barge in a textbook operation. The two side boosters, themselves […]
Research by Juniper Research has found that the number of cross-border transactions recorded on the blockchain will surge to 1.3 billion by 2023, a CAGR of 82 per cent over the next 4 years. The value of transactions recorded on the blockchain will thus reach an unprecedented $3.4 trillion; a CAGR of 87 per cent […]
A Parks Associates report finds gaming remains the primary use case for VR (virtual reality) headsets. Virtual Reality: The Evolving Ecosystem finds consumer-reported familiarity with VR technology has stayed at approximately one-quarter of US broadband households between 2017 and 2018, with gamers most likely to be familiar with this technology. Some 8 per cent of […]
Vimeo is set to acquire Magisto, a video creation service with over 100 million users, for a reported $200 milliion. Magisto enables short-form video creation for any medium. Vimeo says the combination of Magisto’s professional video creation capabilities with its suite of video hosting, distribution and monetisation tools will extend its position as the industry’s most […]
Singapore-based Kacific Broadband Satellite has signed a significant contract with the island nation of Tonga. The deal covers satellite capacity with Tonga’s outlying islands, and reflects the nation’s need for secure back-up in the event of problems similar to a major fibre cable outage which lasted 12 days in January. The Tonga-Fiji cable, measuring some […]
ACCESS Europe, a subsidiary of ACCESS, a global provider of advanced IT solutions centered around mobile and network software technologies, has acquired NetRange, the global provider of white labeled, turnkey Smart TV and OTT ecosystems. The acquisition will bring together both companies’ products and solutions, including ACCESS Twine for Car and NetRange’s OS.CAR. “The synergy […]
West Africa’s mobile ecosystem generated more than $50 billion in economic value last year – equivalent to 8.7 per cent of the region’s GDP, according to a GSMA study. The study finds that rising mobile phone ownership and the ongoing migration to mobile broadband networks and services across the region will see the mobile ecosystem’s […]
Witbe, a specialist in Quality of Experience Monitoring, has announced the launch of a new product dedicated to audience measurement monitoring for the North American market, thanks to its recent implementation of Nielsen watermark tag detection. With this new feature, Witbe customers that use Nielsen watermarking technology will be able to ensure their linear and […]
Make.TV, used by leaders in news, eSports, sports and entertainment to handle live video in the cloud, has teamed with Microsoft’s interactive livestreaming service, Mixer, to bring Mixer Matchups to Microsoft Stores across the US. Mixer launched in 2017 and boasts over 20 million monthly active users. Mixer was the first streaming platform with sub-second […]
Espial, makers of the award-winning Espial Elevate, an innovative TV as a Service (TVaaS) platform, has announced they have certified several convenient Amazon Alexa voice controls for Elevate’s next-gen IPTV, app-TV and cable services. In an industry first, Amazon completed a bulk certification of multiple pay-TV operators, enabling operators to move rapidly through the certification process. […]