Telecom Italia Media (TI Media) has agreed to sell its pay-per-view activities to Swedish group Airplus TV. The Italian operator will spin off the activities into a new subsidiary controlled by Airplus and in which TI Media will continue to hold 9 per cent. Telecom Italia will also provide bandwidth for transmitting the pay-TV channels […]

Espial, specialist in the delivery of IPTV middleware and applications, is to acquire all of the outstanding shares of IP video delivery outfit Kasenna in exchange for an aggregate of 4,722,224 Espial common shares.

Thomson is selling the Thomson Grass Valley digital film transfer equipment business to private investors led by PARTER Capital Group, a German private equity firm.

Royal Philips Electronics has assumed full ownership of its former joint venture Teletrax, the world's first global broadcast intelligence company. Philips plans to combine Teletrax

The combination of both systems gives advertisers the opportunity to leverage the advertising ecosystem by addressing VOD users and customers with targeted real-time advertisements. Operators are thus enabled to generate new and additional revenue streams from their existing Video on Demand offerings – while digital subscribers enjoy a pure VOD entertainment experience, combined with contextually […]

Unless a deal is struck Gilat's board of directors will meet this weekend to decide whether to continue negotiations or sue the investors who agreed to take the company private for $475m, or $11.40 per share. If Gilat opts to go to court, as many other spurned takeover targets have in the past year, it […]

Paul Broadhurst, CEO of Technetix Group, said, “We are delighted with this development as Technetix and Dalvi Technology have very complimentary skills. The Dalvi Technology assets will add a number of additional key services to our well established offering of engineering, integration and supply chain services covering all the technologies in broadband cable networks. This […]

News Corp is effectively selling around half its stake in the business to Permira as part of a complex deal. News Corp currently owns 72 per cent of NDS’s equity, controlling 96 per cent of the voting rights. Under the terms of the deal, which values NDS’s equity at $63 a share, News Corp will […]

The merger rumour surfaced following speculation that federal officials could be inclined to support it, following their approval of the XM-Sirius satellite radio merger. DirecTV and Dish attempted to merge several years ago, but the FCC rejected it in 2002 on competition grounds. In an earnings call following release of the company’s second quarter report, […]