Technology licensing company Rambus Inc has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held semiconductor security R&D and licensing company Cryptography Research, Inc (CRI) for an aggregate of $342.5 million comprised of $167.5 million in cash, approximately 6.4 million shares of Rambus stock, and $50 million payable to CRI employees in cash or stock over three […]
French entertainment and telecoms company Vivendi has reported a solid start to the year with huge sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops and World of Warcraft boosting earnings in its games division by almost a third, more than countering a plunge of 35 per cent at Universal Music Group. Overall Vivendi, which also owns […]
World soccer’s governing bodies FIFA and UEFA have appealed against a European ruling that the World Cup and European Championships must be on free-to-air TV in the UK. In February, the European Court ruled the UK could keep the events on a of “a protected list” of events shown for free. It means the two […]
The German pay-TV provider added 73,000 new customers in the first three months of 2011, taking its total subs base to 2,726,000 for the end of March, up from 2,471,000 a year earlier and a step on the way to its challenging 3m target by this next year. Q1 revenues grew 15% YonY to €269.6 […]
In a filing with the FCC, Ron Wheeler, SVP of Content Protection for Fox Group stated that “in the course of renegotiating a contract with one of Fox’s multichannel video programming distribution (“MVPD”) partners, the MVPD has told Fox that it intends in the near future to make its subscription and on-demand video services available […]
BT reported a 71 per cent rise in profits after more than £1 billion (€1.146bn) of cost savings helped it overcome a four per cent drop in revenues. The bigger-than-expected improvement in full-year profits to £1.7 billion was helped by continued success in broadband. BT said 252,000 customers were added by companies using BT’s network, […]
FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker is leaving to join Comcast—only four months after she sat on the commission that approved its controversial merger with NBC. Baker, one of two Republicans on the five-member commission, will serve as the senior vice president of government affairs for NBC Universal when she departs the FCC in June, when […]
Satellite operator SES, as at March 31st, was fully using 995 transponders out of a fleet total of 1249 (79.7 per cent, and up 32 transponders on the same period last year) with markets like India filling “every available transponder” on its SES-7 craft and is the reason why SES has ordered a new 33-transponder […]
Channel 4 increased its profits from £300,000 (€344,000) to nearly £40 million in 2010 thanks to a big upswing in the advertising market, but warned revenues for the coming year looked flat. Total revenue increased 12.6 per cent to £935.2 million in 2010. Operating profit rose to £49.3 million from £3.9 million the previous year, […]
Ofcom research reveals that the next generation of mobile technology will deliver more than 200 per cent of the capacity of existing 3G technologies, using the same amount of spectrum – the airwaves that carry information between customers’ mobile handsets and the Internet. This increased capacity is essential in meeting the UK’s rapid increase in […]