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Campbell named Disney EMEA President

Rebecca Campbell is set to take the role as President of EMEA for the Walt Disney Company. The current president of ABC Owned Television Station Group and ABC Daytime will replace Diego Lerner in January. Campbell is a 20-year Disney/ABC veteran. Lerner, who has been President of EMEA since 2009, is returning home to Argentina […]

September 22, 2017

Procera completes Sandvine acquisition

Procera Networks, a global player in Network Intelligence, has announced the completion of the acquisition of Sandvine Corporation, a provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators. The combined company will operate under the Sandvine name, and the executive management team will be led by Lyndon Cantor as President and Chief Executive […]

September 22, 2017

Intelsat: “High risk, but high reward”

Intelsat has just signed a capacity deal with its Epic satellite to supply bandwidth to the UAE’s Etisalat telco. A report from equity analysts at investment bank Jefferies, says the agreement is “on the face of it neither unexpected, nor material in nature, nor likely to bother consensus. But it nonetheless goes to the heart […]

September 21, 2017

Experts gather to tackle IP crime

Recent innovations on intellectual property rights enforcement strategies were the focus of the first Europol Intellectual Property Crime Conference organised in Antwerp. Some 400 senior law enforcement official, security and industry experts from 42 countries attended the conference, co-organised by Europol, the Belgian Customs Authority, UL (Underwriters Laboratories) and the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC). Participants reviewed […]

September 21, 2017By Colin Mann

Google sinks $1.1bn in HTC mobile

Google has agreed to take over staff and assets of smartphone maker HTC for $1.1 billion. Google said the takeover will strengthen its hardware business, including the Pixel smartphones on which HTC already cooperates. HTC will continue to make smartphones and VR devices under its own brand. Google also receives a non-exclusive licence to HTC’s […]

September 21, 2017

Fox/Sky deal referred to CMA

Karen Bradley, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has referred Fox’s proposed takeover of Sky to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on public interest grounds. The CMA will now examine how the deal would impact media plurality and broadcasting standards in the UK. Media plurality means that a diversity of […]

September 20, 2017

Portuguese regulator rejects Altice, Media Capital deal

Portugal’s National Communications Authority (Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações [Anacom]) has rejected the proposed acquisition by global telecom operator Altice of Portuguese media company Media Capital. The regulator stated that the deal may create “significant barriers to effective competition in the various electronic communications markets”. According to Anacom, “given the size of the parties involved in […]

September 20, 2017From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Report: GIGAWorld €250bn innovation wave

Research from consultancy firm Arthur D. Little (ADL) estimates that the GIGAWorld – the world enabled by widespread access to high quality, gigabit Internet in which people, machines and the environment collaborate intelligently – could generate billions of Euros for the European economy, and trillions globally. The report, commissioned by international TV and broadband company […]

September 20, 2017

Record industry: Copyright infringement ‘significant issue’

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) – the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide – has released Connecting with Music, the 2017 Music Consumer Insight Report. Based on research conducted by Ipsos Connect, the report examines the ways in which fans are engaging with recorded music across 13 of […]

September 20, 2017By Colin Mann

Russia blocks 234 pirate websites

Russia’s media and communications watchdog Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications) has permanently blocked 234 digital piracy websites, according to Alexander Zharov, head of the body. Zharov declared that the fight against digital piracy is successful. According to Zharov, the Moscow City Court blocked 3,700 websites […]

September 20, 2017By Colin Mann