Zeebox, the social TV outfit, has launched a click-to-buy service designed to let viewers buy products directly from TV ads for the first time. The move should provide brands with more insight into the effectiveness of their TV campaigns while providing measureable performance tracking. Every time a viewer sees a TV ad, a corresponding click-to-buy […]
Virgin Media is happy to limit the apps available on TiVo, insisting quality is more important than quantity. COO Andrew Barron told analysts: They will be heavyweight apps, not just fodder. It’s easy to publish all sorts of things to it, because it’s got Flash – but we want to the real heavyweights.” Virgin claimed […]
Modern Times Group has seen net sales up 6 per cent year on year SEK 13,473 million. Operating income was SEK1,900 million but sank to a net loss of SEK 1,289 million when non-recurring items and associated companies were included. Hans-Holger Albrecht, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented: “All four of our broadcasting businesses reported […]
Samsung’s reworked tablet PC is not a copycat version of the iPad, a German court said. Samsung changed the design of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 for the German market — naming it Galaxy Tab 10.1N — to get around a sales ban imposed by a court in September. Apple challenged the new version but has […]
Two more senior executives have left LoveFilm following the exit of CEO Simon Calver. Digital chief Lesley MacKenzie and CTO Mike Blakemore are also to leave. COO Jim Buckle is to take on the role of managing director.
News Corp has seen its net profits rise 65 per cent in the three months to the end of December 2011 compared to the same period in 2010. The company made $1.06 billion net profit in the period, up from $624 million in 2010. The firm’s results were fuelled mainly by income from advertising and […]
Advanced television services and DVR specialist TiVo has confirmed the nationwide availability of the TiVo HD DVR from DirecTV in the US, which enables DirecTV customers to once again enjoy the TiVo service seamlessly integrated with their DirecTV service. “We are pleased to answer the call of TiVo fans by making the new TiVo HD […]
Following the ‘wait-and-see’ approach to the UltraViolet digital film ownership initiative suggested by Disney CEO Bob Iger when discussing his company’s Q1 results, his Time Warner counterpart Jeff Bewkes has offered a much more positive assessment, suggesting that the company wouldn’t be against releasing UltraViolet titles earlier into the retail chain, provided there were safeguards […]
India’s Bharti Airtel digital TV business added 455,000 new subscribers during its Q3 period (to December 31st). However, investment-based losses continued. Airtel DTH suffered an increased net loss of Indian Rupees 1.96 billion ($40m), up on Q2’s IR1.8 billion. Airtel’s DTH total revenue for the quarter grew to IR3.3 billion (from IR2.38 billion in Q2). […]
China’s Lenovo, the world’s No.2 PC maker, plans to sell smart televisions in China and has no immediate plans to ship overseas due to a lack of content, CEO Yang Yuanqing has said. “We’ll just focus on China for our smart TV sales. We’ve shipped tablet PCs globally. Our smartphones are currently still sold just […]