BlackArrow, a global provider of advanced advertising solutions for New Television platforms, has closed $20 million in Series C financing. The round was led by strategic investor NDS Group – and included existing investors Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners. This financing provides new capital to expand product […]
YouTube wants viewers to stay on the site for much longer giving the video platform the opportunity to garner more TV advertising spend. Chad Hurley, CEO, says he wants users to become more like TV viewers with the ultimate aim of getting them to spend nearer five hours at the site, rather than the current […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Spain's National Competition Commission (CNC) has limited to three years the duration of contracts between TV operators and football teams to broadcast the matches “to guarantee free competition in the market”. The CNC has imposed fines of E150,000, E100,000 and E25,000 on Sogecable, Mediapro and Audiovisual Sport, respectively for […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome The European Union has decided to lend a helping hand to countries in the Western Balkans seeking to introduce digital terrestrial television. A E13 million project has been approved by the European Commission in Serbia which has set a deadline of April 2012 for the analogue switch off (ASO). According […]
Viacom has said that court documents show Google ignored warnings about YouTube’s copyright violations and now uses the threat of infringement to force content owners into licensing deals. The documents were revealed federal court as part of Viacom’s $1bn copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube, which Google acquired in 2006. In one of the documents from 2006, […]
France Telecom’s Orange has struck a deal to offer broadband services via BT’s network in Britain to increase its coverage. As part of the deal, BT will take over Orange’s existing fixed-line infrastructure, which currently covers about 65 percent of the population, and incorporate it into its own network. Orange, which is merging its mobile […]
SA regulator rushes to license mobile TV South African broadcasting and telecoms regulator The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) is racing against time to issue mobile TV licences in time for the World Cup tournament in June. Robert Nkuna, an Icasa councillor, was reported as saying that two multiplexes have been set aside […]
Demand Media, a startup that mines online search engine data to generate thousands of videos and web stories a day, has hired Goldman Sachs to explore an initial public offering. The company could file for an IPO as early as August and, apparently, offer the company at a value of $1.5 billion. Since 2006, Demand […]
All centre court matches from The French Open will be broadcast live in 3D and shown via Panasonic TVs in-store at selected retail outlets. The 3D coverage of the event will be broadcast to Orange subscribers in France on a dedicated Orange TV channel. Eurosport will receive the Orange 3D live signal and deliver 3D […]
Paramount is to offer some of its films preloaded onto external hard drives, as it looks to offset declining DVD sales. The new FreeAgent Go 500GB device from Seagate will have 21 movies preloaded, including a free offer of the new Star Trek film. Users can unlock the other 20 by paying for a pass […]