Multichoice’s DStv is by any measure the largest supplier of premium sports, movies and TV content over Africa. Now Kenya’s competition regulator is to investigate DStv’s market dominance following on from the collapse of Smart TV last week. Smart TV wasn’t alone: Gateway’s GTV went bust in 2009, and while there there are other players […]
The US Justice Department and the European Commission have approved Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility. The acquisition gives Google a foothold in the mobile phone industry and could boost its Android mobile operating system. Google also gains access to Motorola’s trove of patents, which it can use to fend off lawsuits from Apple […]
International Datacasting Corporation has announced that James Hall, an independent director of the Corporation, had been appointed as IDC’s new Chairman of the Board, effective immediately. The appointment follows Adam Adamou’s stepping down from the position effective February 10, 2012. Mr. Adamou will continue to serve IDC as a director. With the appointment of Mr. […]
Netflix has paid $9 million dollars to settle a privacy-related legal action, a financial filing has revealed. The company, which made no admission of wrongdoing, said the settlement related to compliance with the Video Protection Privacy Act. The 1998 US law prohibits the disclosure of video rental histories and it is reported that the legal […]
Amino Technologies, the UK STB maker and solutions provider for in-home multimedia distribution, has announced audited results for the year ending November 30th 2011 showing year-on-year growth in revenue, operating profit, margins and cash generation. Turnover was up 18 per cent to £51.8 million (€62m) with gross profit up 16 per cent to £14.5 million […]
US copyright-based industries private sector coalition the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) has submitted recommendations to the US Trade Representative (USTR) in its annual ‘Special 301’ review. The IIPA report documents rampant online and physical piracy of copyrighted works and severe market access barriers, surveys problems and developments in 41 countries/territories, and recommends that 32 […]
India is welcoming foreign investment in its digital cable TV sector, and has set a Foreign Direct Investment cap of 74 per cent for non-Indian investors. The new limit applies to DTH, IPTV, mobile TV, and digital cable distribution. The newly set cap replaces a number of other assorted investment limits within the TV sector. […]
The Spanish broadcast transmission agency Abertis Telecom will have to pay a €13.7 million fine for abuse of dominant position in the DTT market. The fine is imposed by the National Competition Commission (CNC) following a complaint by SES Astra. In its ruling, the CNC argues that Abertis Telecom was preventing other operators from […]
Sky Deutschland has raised €155.8 million in a share sale to load up for the auction for key rights to top-flight soccer, its main draw for subscribers. The company placed about 70.8 million new shares at €2.20 each, with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp taking up about half of the new shares to keep its stake […]
The owners of German cable company Primacom have been forced to inject another €20 million into the business and restructure its €300 million of debt for the second time in a year. Primacom was taken over in January 2011 by its bank lenders including ING and fund managers Alcentra Group, Tennenbaum Capital and Avenue Capital […]