TiVo shares gained 25 per cent as the US Patent and Trademark Office upheld TiVo’s time-warp patent covering the company’s DVR technology. As reported, EchoStar had requested that the patent be re-examined in an effort to have an earlier patent infringement judgement against the company overturned. TiVo officials said the company is extremely pleased the […]
Avail Media, provider of IPTV and advanced media services to broadband operators, has closed the final tranche of a $25 million Series B equity round. First time investor Valhalla Partners joined Columbia Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, and Pioneer Ventures in the round. The financing, along with $5 million in debt financing from a strategic […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suggested that both telecom operators and cable TV operators should be allowed to offer IPTV. In a draft recommendation, the telecom regulator has also said that the Cable TV Act should be amended to allow broadcasters to provide signals to all distributors of TV channels such as […]
Channel 4 is buying a 10 per cent stake in mobile ad tech firm Mobile IQ to boost its mobile advertising efforts. The two companies have been working together since February 2006, during which time Mobile IQ has deployed both Channel 4's direct-to-consumer mobile services and its mobile content portals on Vodafone and O2. Channel […]
Virgin Media's head of strategy is the latest executive to leave the group amid a wider restructuring. Ernie Cormier, its managing director of strategy, would leave in the new year. Steve Stewart, the group's head of customer care, will leave at about the same time. The future of Jacques Kerrest, the group's finance head, also […]
Discovery and Science Channel president and general manager Jane Root is out at the company, Discovery Communications president and CEO David Zaslav confirmed. She is being let her out of her contract effective immediately to return to her native United Kingdom, and Discovery veteran John Ford — who rejoined the company in September after years […]
Coming off a setback on its attempt to trigger tighter regulation, the head of the Federal Communications Commission has moved quickly to propose the FCC adopt a rule that would prevent Comcast, the nation's biggest cable company, from becoming larger. Officials said that Kevin Martin notified other commissioners this week of the agenda for the […]
Digital video recorder maker TiVo has reported a narrower quarterly loss as its revenue and subscriptions increased, and it issued a forecast that was more optimistic than estimates. The net loss was $8.24 million, for its fiscal third quarter compared with a loss of $11.1 million, a year earlier. Revenue rose to $75.5 million from […]
Kevin Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has backed down, for now, from his effort to expand regulatory control over the cable industry after failing to secure backing from fellow regulators. The FCC had planned to vote on a report that found companies such as Comcast and Time Warner Cable had reached a […]
Spotzer Media Group, provider of multi-media video advertising campaigns, announced the closing of a E10 million financing led by Sierra Ventures of Menlo Park, California. European Directories, operator of leading yellow page publishers in nine countries, also invested. Spotzer will primarily use the new capital to extend its innovative rich media advertising services into the […]