Ziggo, the Dutch cable company owned by Warburg Pincus and Cinven, is adding to stock available through its IPO after the order books were filled in one day. Ziggo has increased the number of shares it will offer at €16.5 to €18.5 each, with proceeds of as much as €804 million going to the private- […]
PT MNC Skyvision, Indonesia’s largest pay-TV provider, has reinitiated a plan to raise $300-$400 million via an initial public offering in June to take advantage of rising consumer spending in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. The company, a unit of media group PT Global Mediacom , plans to sell a 20-30 per cent stake to the […]
Ziggo, the Dutch cable provider, will offer a fifth of the company’s outstanding shares in an initial public offering that could raise up to €745 million. The IPO will see private equity funds Warburg Pincus and Cinven – which created Ziggo by acquiring and merging three smaller cable networks in 2006 – selling off 35 […]
Attracted by market prospects for mobile TV, Israeli maker of TV chips for mobile devices Siano Mobile Silicon is planning a push into the US in 2012, with the possibility an initial public offering filing as early as 2012, reports Bloomberg. Chief Executive Officer Alon Ironi said that Siano had held conversations with bankers and […]
Pay-TV technology specialist NDS has filed to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of its common stock. The company intends to list its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘NDSG’. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company did not reveal how […]
The planned sale of online video website Hulu has fallen through after months of negotiations between the service’s owners and potential buyers. Hulu’s owners, which include Disney, News Corp, NBC Universal and Providence Equity, revealed they had decided against a sale of the video service. “Since Hulu holds a unique and compelling strategic value to […]
FilmOn.com PLC, the Internet-based high-definition television service, has topped the European App Store Charts with its FilmOn Apple App for iPhone and iPad on the same day it announced it has listed its UK/European based Live Internet Television Service on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with the trading symbol FMX. “Most of the Channels on the […]
News Corp and Permira, the European private equity group, have hired banks to arrange a New York listing of digital pay-TV technology specialist NDS, which they jointly own, reports the FT. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been appointed to assist with the Initial Public Offering, following meetings in New York in recent […]