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WSC Sports, HockeyAllsvenskan bring AI to Hockey in Sweden

WSC Sports, a specialist in AI sports video technology, will be bringing its AI and machine learning platform to ice hockey in Sweden, partnering with HockeyAllsvenskan. Through this collaboration, fans will now have access to real-time video highlights of all the HockeyAllsvenskan action across the league’s digital properties, as well as seeing them on big […]

September 20, 2022

Wowza acquires Flowplayer

Wowza, the live and VoD platform, has acquired Flowplayer, a Sweden-based video player specialist. The acquisition was made in partnership with Clearhaven Partner, a US-based private equity firm that focuses on software and technology, following its 2021 investment in Wowza. Financial terms were not disclosed. By acquiring Flowplayer, Wowza says it adds enhanced player functionality, […]

September 7, 2022

Netflix, Scen & Film extend partnership

Netflix and Scen & Film (formerly Teaterförbundet, The Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film) have announced an extended partnership. Following the agreement on success based remuneration for Swedish Netflix Original Series in 2020, Netflix and Scen & Film have now agreed on a similar framework for films. This means that when a Swedish Netflix […]

September 7, 2022

Satcube names Fuglesang as new advisor

Satcube, a Swedish technology company that develops benchmark portable satellite terminals to provide on-the-spot satellite broadband, has announced ESA astronaut and physicist, Christer Fuglesang, as a Satcube advisor. Swedish Fuglesang is a professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, a space advisor at Saab, and retired ESA Astronaut. Mats Andersson, Chairman, Satcube, said: “The Satcube […]

September 6, 2022

Sweden: Streaming services soar despite economic concern

Mediavision has analysed how the market for TV and streaming in Sweden was affected by households’ increasing concerns about the economy in Q2 2022. The analysis shows that households in Sweden continue to pay for their streaming subscriptions and that the market is growing according to trend. This results in a record quarter for the […]

August 24, 2022

Three Sweden selects Net Insight’s time synchronisation

Mobile operator Three Sweden (‘Three’) has selected Net Insight for synchronising its 5G network. The companies have worked in close cooperation and after extensive field evaluation of Net Insight’s 5G time sync solution, Three has placed an initial order for Nimbra Time Nodes. Time synchronisation is mission critical for Three’s 5G rollout and Three and […]

July 1, 2022

End of Summer becomes Viaplay Original drama series

Viaplay will become the first streaming service to adapt the bestselling work of Swedish crime writer Anders de la Motte for the screen. The psychological thriller ‘End of Summer’, based on de la Motte’s hit novel of the same title, will premiere exclusively as a Viaplay Original in 2023 with a cast to be revealed […]

June 29, 2022

Live Life is Viaplay’s next Original for young adults

Swedish Kristallen winner Hanna Ardéhn (‘Quicksand’), Tina Pour Davoy (‘Eagles’) and Doreen Ndagire (‘Comedy Queen’) will headline Viaplay’s latest Original for young adults, ‘Live Life’. Susanne Thorson (‘ALEX’) makes her directorial debut with the eight-part drama series, which follows three friends suddenly faced with a devastating turn of events. Currently filming in Stockholm, ‘Live Life’ […]

June 8, 2022

Forsway adds to Board of Directors

Forsway, a Swedish provider of broadband solutions that combine satellite and telecom networks, has appointed two new Directors to its Board in Karin Thurberg and Siebren de Boer. “We are very pleased to welcome Karin and Siebren to the Forsway Board of Directors,” said Mats Andersson, Chairman. “Their deep knowledge and experience from industry-leading companies […]

May 25, 2022

Sweden: Filmstream on Samsung TV Plus

SPI/FilmBox has announced that its ad-supported digital channel Filmstream is set to launch in Sweden with Samsung TV Plus, the free streaming service from Samsung. Starting this month, Samsung TV Plus users in the region can access hundreds of hours of classics, independent features and world cinema movies by tuning in to channel number 4969.“We […]

April 22, 2022