TiVo is holding on to its temporary CEO, Raghu Rau, for the time being having failed to appoint a permanent replacement for Enrique Rodriguez who left last summer. Rodriguez departed to join Liberty Global as CTO. Rau will hold on to his $750,000 salary as well as an additional stock award worth around $2 million. […]
Deutsche Telekom has been limited to holding a 15 per cent stake in BT for three years, but this ends on January 29th. And BT obviously thinks it may launch a takeover bid. According to reports, BT is consulting takeover advisors Robey Warshaw and Goldman Sachs. Its shares are at a five-year low and the […]
The cumulative value of satellite-delivered broadband will be worth some $159 billion over the next 10 years, according to a report from Northern Sky Research (NSR). Video traffic will drive much of the growth. Over the next decade NSR says that satellite broadband and its related VSAT capacity traffic will grow at 13.4 per cent […]
STV and Sky have announced a five-year strategic partnership, which will give Sky customers in Scotland access to STV’s regional variants in full HD, as well as STV’s VoD service – STV Player – on their set top boxes for the first time. Sky customers in STV’s broadcast licence areas will be able to catch […]
Streaming giant Netflix came away with a leading five Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton ceremony on January 6th. Netflix original Roma won best foreign language movie, and its Mexican-born filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron took the prize for best director. Its series The Kominsky Method won the award for best comedy while star performer Michael […]
Britons spend half as much time on the landline – but use ten times more mobile data – than just six years ago, as new research from comms regulator Ofcom reveals changing attitudes to the traditional telephone number. With smartphone ownership increasing, and landline use continuing to fall, Ofcom’s latest research suggests remembering phone numbers […]
Worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) is forecast to reach $745 billion in 2019, an increase of 15.4 per cent over the $646 billion spent in 2018, according to an update to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide. IDC expects worldwide IoT spending will maintain a double-digit […]
Elon Musk was been busy tweeting over the holidays, talking about a visit to Boca Chica, South Texas to view construction on his ‘Starship Alpha’ space rocket, and telling fans that the overall Mars-focussed project had been “radically redesigned”. It has also emerged that since early December he has raised around $1 billion in fresh […]
Smart speakers such as Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple’s Homepod and JBL’s Link Series have found a place in the daily lives of French people, becoming the new personal assistant of more than 1.7 million users according to Médiamétrie. With an average age of 39 years, users of smart speakers are younger than the average […]
DAZN, the live and on-demand sports streaming service, has announced that Ben King is joining the company as SVP Global Distribution and Business Development to drive its global expansion. King joins DAZN in February from Apple where, over his 12-year tenure, he worked at the forefront of some of the world’s most successful digital entertainment […]