A record number of media and entertainment (M&E) companies expect to pursue M&A deals during the next 12 months, according to a recent survey of over 1600 senior executives, of which 94 were from the M&E companies, in more than 60 countries conducted by EY for the 11th Capital Confidence Barometer: Media & Entertainment. The […]
The Spanish competition watchdog CNMC has launched an in-depth antitrust investigation into Telefonica’s acquisition of pay-TV company Canal Plus amidst signs of lack of competition in the market. CNMC underlines that the deal “could significantly hinder competition in the markets related to pay-TV, audiovisual content and electronic communications services”. In May, the media group Prisa […]
BSkyB has completed its acquisition of Sky Italia S.r.l and takeover offer for Sky Deutschland AG and announced its intention to change its name to Sky, in place of British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) in recognition of the international scope of the business. The Company has acquired 89.71 per cent of the share capital of Sky […]
Private equity firms Apax Partners and Bain Capital have made a €7.075 billion offer for the Portuguese assets of Oi, the Brazilian telecoms group, rivalling the €7.025 billion bid from Altice, the European cable group and the bid from Isabel dos Santos. Oi, the largest landline carrier in Brazil, said that the joint offer included […]
Yahoo is to acquire BrightRoll, a leading programmatic video advertising platform in a $640 million deal. The transaction will combine Yahoo’s premium desktop and mobile video advertising inventory with BrightRoll’s programmatic video platform and publisher relationships to bring substantial value to advertisers on both platforms. BrightRoll is a large, growing and profitable business with net […]
Xiaomi, China’s largest smartphone vendor, is set to acquire Youku Tudou shares on the open market and also license content from China’s most popular video-streaming site. Joy Han, a spokeswoman for Xiaomi, and Jay Chen, a Youku Tudou spokesman, both declined to comment on the amount of the investment. Lei Jun, Xiaomi’s chief executive officer, […]
Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of long-serving Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, and a major shareholder in Portuguese pay-TV service provider Nos, has bid €1.211 billion for Portugal Telecom SGPS, the holding company that owns a minority stake in the merged Oi-Portugal Telecom. The bid follows Numericable-owner Altice’s €7 billion bid for the Portuguese […]
The Brazilian channel, entirely dedicated to fishing contents, owns a system developed by the Spanish company and its local distributor Video System, with VSNEXPLORER as a production Media Asset Management for Adobe Premiere CS6 in HD, a VSNMATIC Playout server with automation, a HD VSNCG character generator and a VSNARCHIVE deep archive integrated with SGL […]
Despite many stories of Sky Deutschland shareholders being disinclined to accept the terms on offer by BSkyB, it seems 87.54 per cent of Sky Deutschland’s shareholders have accepted the BSkyB offer of €6.75 BSkyB, in a regulatory statement issued early on November 6th, said the acceptance period ended as planned on November 3rd and the […]
Liberty Global has completed its tender offer for Dutch cable operator Ziggo and will now own 100 per cent of the firm’s outstanding shares. CEO Mike Fries confirmed that Liberty will immediately begin the integration of Ziggo and UPC Netherlands. “As we leverage the incremental scale provided by Ziggo, which will expand our total customer […]