Teleca, a supplier of solutions and services to the mobile and connected devices industries, has acquired Boston based Triple Play Integration (TPI). TPI offers strong capabilities around Adobe Flash and digital TV technologies. The company will spearhead Teleca’s consumer electronics activities and enable new growth in that domain. The acquisition strengthens Teleca’s ability to offer […]
Seeing the writing on the wall that a vote in Parliament on Wednesday was likely to block its bid for Sky, News Corp has ‘tried to take the politics out of the bid’ and has unilaterally withdrawn its negotiated commitments to spin-off Sky News and has accepted this will mean a referral to the Competition […]
Ofcom is likely to investigate News Corporation’s proposed bid for satellite broadcaster BSkyB . Pressure on the regulator has ramped up as more revelations on the News International phone hacking scandal have poured out. On Friday morning the Prime Minister said Ofcom should take account of ‘the new circumstances’, and Simon Hughes, Deputy Leader of […]
QuickPlay Media, provider of solutions for the distribution of premium video to portable wireless devices, has revealed it will acquire a variety of network operations centre assets of FLO TV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, further expanding its US presence. As a result of the acquisition, QuickPlay will take over FLO TV’s 30,000-square-foot data and […]
A US Bankruptcy Court judge on July 7th approved the $1.37 billion sale of TerreStar’s assets to Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network. The deal means that Dish gets access to 20 MHz of satellite and matching terrestrial bandwidth. It is the third such acquisition for Ergen and represents a major shift away from its core DTH […]
Comments by the Prime Minister David Cameron this morning make it more likely that Ofcom will step in sooner rather than later to apply the ‘fit and proper person(s)’ test of the Broadcasting Act to News Corp in its bid for BSkyB in the light of the News International voice mail hacking scandal. Speaking ahead […]
Irdeto, a global software security and media technology company, has confirmed the acquisition of BD+ technology for Blu-ray from Rovi Corporation. The newly acquired BD+ technology will fold into the company’s Irdeto ActiveCloak for Media offering, giving Hollywood studios a robust solution for protecting Blu-ray movie titles from the threat of digital piracy and lost […]
Google is in preliminary talks to buy online video pioneer Hulu, reports the LA Times, quoting people familiar with the situation. It is understood that Hulu has been meeting with potential buyers including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to gauge interest in a sale. Hulu’s financial advisors, Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners, set up the meetings […]
There’s increased speculation on Wall Street that DVR specialist TiVo is a ripe take-over target. A cluster of analysts have identified some well-know names as being potential buyers, not least Microsoft and Google. The logic, they say, is that with TiVo’s extremely long-running legal squabble now done and dusted – and the probability of similar […]
Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, has finally published the results of the consultation launched on 3 March on the undertakings in lieu offered by News Corporation in relation to their proposed merger with BSkyB. Alongside this he has also published subsequent advice from Ofcom and the OFT and […]