MUMBAI: Internet protocol television (IPTV) service provider, Internet Broadcasting Corp., has raised $500,000 in Series A equity financing as part of its $2 million offering. The...
MUMBAI: Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific has launched Discovery Kids on SkyCable in the Philippines. In addition, its popular global lifestyle channel TLC will now reach a broader...
MUMBAI: Media marketplace organiser Natpe has announced that more than 250 companies from 50 countries are confirmed to attend the inaugural Natpe Budapest content market, formerly...
MUMBAI: Sony Creative Software, a global provider of professional editing and authoring applications, has announced new innovative audio and video editing tools for professionals set for...
MUMBAI: The future of 3D technology is in television. That was the message that filmmaker James Cameron had for attendees at the Nab show in Las...
MUMBAI: With the digitisation sunset date of 30 June approaching in the four metros, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has asked all the cable operators –...
MUMBAI: More than four in ten Indians (45 per cent) use the Internet to search for information on entertainment and hobbies due to diverse and vast...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom‘s channel dedicated to comedy Comedy Central has announced the launch of ‘The Daily Show‘ Headlines,” a new mobile and tablet app...
MUMBAI: Social networking mobile application maker Path has raised about $30 million from venture capital firms like Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures and individual investors such...
MUMBAI: The Global BBC iPlayer has secured the rights to the Virgin London Marathon. The news follows the announcement of The Xchanging Boat Race as the...
MUMBAI: Leading film entertainment company, Yash Raj Films, has entered into a licensing deal with Novex Communication for all existing Hindi movies and forthcoming movies for...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is issuing its Tariff Order and other related guidelines relating to digitisation next week, almost three weeks...
MUMBAI: India has become the fourth largest online video consumption market, aided by 50 per cent growth over the last couple of years. This sudden explosion...
MUMBAI: Indian broadcasters having international subscription revenues have reasons to be worried. A sharp rise in housing vacancies due to the mortgage crisis alone has led...
MUMBAI: Technicolor India has reached the milestone of supplying five million set-top boxes (STBs) to Tata Sky, the DTH operator with 6.5 million subscribers. Technicolor has...
MUMBAI: Western Europe will not reach full digital TV penetration until 2017, despite it being as high as 85 per cent by end-2011, according to a...
MUMBAI: QuickPlay Media, which provides managed solutions for the distribution of premium video to IP-connected devices, has revealed the results of its annual independent Market Tools...
NEW DELHI: The spending on Facebook has grown by 93 per cent year-on-year and now represents three to five per cent of search spend, indicating that...
MUMBAI: Digicable subscribers have stopped getting the 46 channels distributed by Sun18 North but negotiations are on to resume the service. Effectively, channels like Colors, CNN...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide is expanding the remit of Claude London, who becomes Digital Director, Consumer Products with immediate effect. Reporting directly to BBC Worldwide MD consumer...
NEW DELHI: Viadeo, the professional social network which operates Apnacircle in India, has completed series D fundraising round of $32 million, split between the French Sovereign...
MUMBAI: The IPL ratings might have fallen beyond expectations on television, but the response to online streaming of the matches has a different story to tell...
NEW DELHI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasters Association of Asia (Casbaa) has protested the decision of the Indian Government to impose a 10 percent royalty fee...
MUMBAI: Spuul, a cloud-based streaming video service that provides consumers around the world on-demand access to more than premium Indian movies and TV programmes, has been...
MUMBAI: Swedish telecommunication and data communication systems provider, Ericsson, has partnered NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, to provide a range of video...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (Tdsat) has directed ESPN Star Sports to raise fees to Dish TV on the basis of Reference...
MUMBAI: The digital advertising in India is expected to reach Rs 35.35 billion by the end of this calendar year and Rs 43.91 billion by March...
BANGALORE: Mobile advertising solutions company TELiBrahma has partnered with Times Internet Limited (TIL) to deliver near-live Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket video clips on consumers’ mobiles....
MUMBAI: Big CBS Network, the JV between Reliance Broadcast Network and CBS Studios International, has inked a distribution deal with Dish TV for Big CBS Spark....
MUMBAI: ESPN Digital Media, which operates popular sports websites like espncricinfo.com, espnsoccernet.com, espnf1.com, and espn.com, has tied up with leading telecom brand Idea to launch a...
MUMBAI: Australia pay-TV company, Foxtel, has got the go-ahead from Australia Competition and Consumer Commission to acquire Australian telecommunications company Austar. The ACCC decided not to...
MUMBAI: AOL Inc. has consented to sell more than 800 patents and related products to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) for $1.056 billion as it looks to raise...
MUMBAI: In its largest ever acquisition, Facebook has snapped up Instagram, a 2-year-old photo-sharing application developer, for a whoping $1 billion in cash and stock ahead...
MUMBAI: Holland-based broadcast technology and solutions company Exset is seeing digitalisation as the perfect opportunity to enter into the Indian market. The company, with offices in...
MUMBAI: Star Movies has launched ‘You Pick the Flick‘, an initiative that gives viewers the freedom to choose their favourite Hollywood blockbuster movies once every month...
MUMBAI: The Information Affairs Authority’s (IAA) Bahrain Radio & Television division (BTV) has selected Masstech, the provider of streamlined media asset management solutions, to digitise and...
MUMBAI: Videocon d2h has agreed to carry the high definition (HD) feed of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The DTH operator has inked a deal with...
MUMBAI: Around 57 Majority of Indian Internet users (57 per cent) prefer to check bank account and other financial holdings online, reveals a recent research carried...
NEW DELHI: India will become the second largest mobile broadband market globally within the next four years with 367 million connections by 2016. A GSMA study...
MUMBAI: Measat Satellite Systems has entered into an agreement with Encompass Digital Media for the distribution of the Edge Sport HD channel via the Measat-3 satellite....
MUMBAI: With digitisation growing and the sunset date looming, technology companies that enable delivery of content are lining up to leverage the opportunity in India. Cisco,...
MUMBAI: Search engine giant Google is in for trouble over infringement of copyright as a US appeals court has revived lawsuits by Viacom, English Premier League,...
MUMBAI: Los Angeles-based Hasbro Studio, the producers of kids and family related content, has announced a multi-year deal with Netflix which will make its content accessible...
MUMBAI: DB Corporation’s 94.3 MY FM has launched a mobile application, ‘My Mobile’, for Android phone users, further increasing their interaction with the station. My FM...
MUMBAI: Reliance Entertainment Digital’s Jump Games has come up with the sequel of Border War–Face Off named Border War –LOC. Border War Face off is an...
MUMBAI: Yahoo Inc is planning to cut 2,000 jobs as part of its major restructuring exercise aimed at making the company leaner and more competitive as...
MUMBAI: Wasp3D will showcase its complete range of updated broadcast graphics systems aimed at helping media companies effectively create, manage and quickly delivering in-depth, visually stunning...
MUMBAI: Asia Satellite Management Stock Ownership Trust (Msot) and Asiasat Msot (acting in its capacity as trustee of Msot) and Asian satellite operator Asiasat have jointly...
MUMBAI: After days of allegations and counterallegations, DirecTV and Tribune Broadcasting have reached an agreement bringing relief to millions of subscribers. Without disclosing the terms of...
MUMBAI: According to the Bulgarian Association of Communication Agencies (BACA) internet advertising in Bulgaria has shown a double digit growth for 2011. This is, however, in...