From Colin Mann at the IPTV World Forum in London Digital content monitoring system provider Mixed Signals has signalled a move into Europe by opening of a European sales and support office. The North American company plans to enhance its European business development efforts to strengthen its position in the rapidly expanding European video services […]
GridNetworks, provider of managed Internet television delivery services, has announced that Cisco Systems has made an investment as a strategic investor in GridNetwork's first round funding. With this latest investment, GridNetworks raised a total of $9.5 million financing. GridNetworks streams television and film content with HD clarity and high-fidelity sound to a computer or a […]
From Colin Mann at the IPTV World Forum in London Video over IP sever specialist Anevia is teaming up with middleware vendor Smart Com to promote an IPTV ecosystem compliance that aims to strengthen marketing and sales to European telecom operators and ISP of integrated solutions, featuring Smart Com’s IPTV middleware and Anevia’s live TV […]
Microsoft and Harmonic have announced that Harmonic’s new DiviCom Ion AVC encoder has successfully completed encoder conformance testing for the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia software platform. The test was administered by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Mediaroom Interoperability and Qualification Lab program. A Microsoft Mediaroom ecosystem partner, Harmonic powers the video head ends […]
Quative, a Kudelski Group company, has been selected by B.Net Croatia, the national cable operator, to provide an end-to-end interactive TV solution for their broadband cable system. The solution features the Quative Service Platform (QSP) and the Lysis Content Management System (CMS), along with Harmonic's complete video delivery solution encompassing compression, stream processing, on-demand delivery […]
TW CEO Jeff Bewkes has signalled he is leaning towards a complete spin-off of Time Warner Cable, telling investors a split between the two companies could be beneficial for both. The board has been conducting a formal review into whether and how Time Warner should change its 84 per cent ownership of Time Warner Cable, […]
Google has completed its $3.1 billion acquisition of online advertising group DoubleClick after receiving the green light from European competition authorities, setting the stage for a broader push into the online display advertising market. The clearance also increased the likelihood that a future acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft would also pass regulatory scrutiny, since Google […]
The Ofcom chief executive, Ed Richards, has confirmed the UK regulator is to abandon plans for a “public service publisher”. He said the idea had “served its purpose” in shifting the debate on the future of public service broadcasting by emphasising the importance of digital media. It is understood that Ofcom no longer envisages recommending […]
The two transmission companies owned by Australian bank Macquarie can merge creating a de-facto monopoly, says the UK Competition Commission “subject to the agreement of a package of measures to protect the interests of their customers”. The Commission admits there will be a “substantial lessening” of competition in the supply of broadcasting services for TV […]
Nielsen will offer a new service that uses cable set-top boxes to shed light on people’s TV-viewing habits. Under the deal with Charter Communications, Nielsen receives information from 320,000 households in Los Angeles and then develops second-by-second data that it can sell to clients like media agencies and advertisers. Nielsen has worked for years with […]