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Amino “trading ahead of expectations”

Amino Technologies, the Cambridge-based provider of digital entertainment solutions for IPTV, Internet TV and in-home multimedia distribution, has provided an update on current trading for the ten months to the end of September 2016. In a statement the company said: “The Board is pleased to announce that the Group is trading ahead of expectations driven […]

October 10, 2016

Verizon wants $1bn Yahoo discount

Verizon Communications is pressing for a $1 billion discount off its pending $4.8 billion deal to buy Yahoo the New York Post reports.The Yahoo deal team is pushing back hard against negotiating the price down, the paper said. Last month Yahoo said at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014 and in […]

October 7, 2016

London Mayor eyes major film studio development

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and Leader of Barking and Dagenham Council, Cllr Darren Rodwell, are exploring plans to build what could be the capital’s largest film studios, based in Dagenham. The Mayor has teamed up with Film London, the London Local Enterprise Panel and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to commission […]

October 7, 2016

BBC urged to improve religious coverage

A report on the independent ‘OurBeeb’ web-site from Hussein Kesvani, who is head of communications at the Theos think tank, argues that far from scrapping the coverage of religion and ethics, coverage of the topics should be increased. Earlier this year a British Social Attitudes survey said that about half of Britons were “irreligious”. Kesvani […]

October 7, 2016By Chris Forrester

Twitter: ‘Put up or shut up’ as Google folds bid

Twitter has told suitors it is seeking to conclude negotiations about selling itself by the time it reports third-quarter earnings on October 27th , according to Reuters. Twitter shares sank nine per cent after Google parent Alaphabet was reported by Recode to have ruled out a bid. Recode also says Apple is not in the […]

October 6, 2016

Bajaria joins Netflix content team

Bela Bajaria is joining Netflix as Vice President of Content, leading the team focused on TV and film licensing from major US studios, as well co-production relationships with major US networks. She will also oversee a new team developing original unscripted programs for Netflix Bajaria was previously President at Universal Television and a long-time CBS […]

October 6, 2016

Vivendi: “Root Canal Surgery”

Equity analysts at Deutsche Bank have taken a fresh look at Vivendi in general and Canal Plus in particular, and in a thorough 94-page report says that they are “believers in the Canal+ turnaround” and that C+ is “central” to the Vivendi investment case. “Vivendi has been rationalized back to its core of music and […]

October 6, 2016

ATSC moves forward with next-gen standard

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has standardised three more components of the next-generation television system that is expected to transform the ability of broadcasters to deliver mobile, interactivity and higher quality content. ATSC members have ratified the Link Layer Protocol and Audio and Video Watermark Emission standards to be part of the ATSC 3.0 […]

October 5, 2016

Turkish police raid TV station

Turkish police raided the offices of broadcaster ‘imc TV’ and cut its transmission on October 4th, after the station was pulled off the air last week over allegations of “spreading terrorist propaganda.” Reported by BBC Monitoring, the police raid was carried out while imc TV was live on air, as it was reporting on the […]

October 5, 2016By Chris Forrester

Tout announces over-subscribed funding

Next-Generation Streaming Video Network Tout, has announced the closing of an over-subscribed $26 million (€23.1m) Series-C financing led by the Melohn Group in New York, and including new investors Terry Semel’s Windsor Media, Pittco Capital Partners and HL Capital who were joined by existing investors Seavest Capital, 819 Capital, and the WWE. Tout now powers […]

October 5, 2016