Cable Europe is taking the opportunity of the launch the European Commission investigation into transparency in the collective management of copyright, to call for a full scale review of the rules that govern relationships between rights owners, collecting societies and users of copyright content across Europe. “The cable industry calls on the Commission to take […]
Virgin Mobile France and broadcast services provider TDF plan to launch DVB-H mobile TV services in the second half of 2011. The groups revealed that they had signed a deal on the CSA approved plan allowing Omer Telecom, the parent company of Virgin Mobile France, Tele2 Mobile France, Breizh Mobile and Casino Mobile, to be […]
Netflix’s stock rocketed past $100 a share – a doubling in three months – after the company reported another phenomenal quarter. The online movie rental company logged a 44 per cent surge in first-quarter profit on a 25 per cent jump in revenue. Even more impressive, the company gained a net 1.7 million subscribers in […]
SES, the world’s second-largest satellite operator, cut its forecast for 2010 revenue and core profit growth after weaker-than-expected first-quarter results. SES, which sells transmission capacity to the likes of BSkyB, Canal Plus, Premiere and NBC, said the delay of a satellite launch and the reduction in revenue from another satellite meant it had to cut […]
Virgin Media, the UK's sole significant cable operator, is completing its long road to restructuring its debt taken on through consolidation. Eamonn O'Hare, finance director, says scheduled repayments have been reduced from £4.8 billion (E5.5bn) by 2012 to £325 million by 2013, and there is no single payment over £200 million before 2015. He says […]
News Corp has acquired Irata Labs, a developer of social games across Twitter and Facebook. It seems Irata will be tapped to work with various News Corp. holdings when needed, rather than folded into MySpace or News Corp's existing games companies. At the moment, the company says it's developing a location-based platform for social gaming. […]
CNN.com and CNNMoney.com have launched site-wide integrations of Facebook Connect and new social plugins. The enhancements will incorporate multiple ways for CNN.com and CNNMoney.com users to seamlessly recommend, share or comment on the news site's content with their friends on Facebook, as well as see when their friends have recommended, shared or commented on CNN.com […]
Facebook is rolling out features that link the company’s platform more tightly with outside Web sites (see above). Facebook’s “open graph” would let people see information tailored to their lives and interests wherever they are on the Web, the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said. The idea is to make Facebook the centre of the […]
iThe BBC's VOD service posted rare slow growth in March. Total monthly requests grew by only 1.2 million to 117.6 million, while average daily users fell by 90,000 to 1.28 million. Radio requests were highest on record, reaching 33 million requests and TV programmes requests were 84 million. In total there were 118 million requests […]
Sony Corporation has signed a deal to bring Major League Baseball's live streaming service to PlayStation3 video game consoles. PlayStation owners will be able to sign up with MLB.TV to watch out-of-market baseball games transmitted over the Internet. It is the latest in a series of digital distribution deals recently announced by sports franchises. Sony […]