MUMBAI: As the holiday season approaches, Apple appears to be the consumer electronics brand to beat. A recent Nielsen survey shows kids‘ holiday gaming and electronics...
MUMBAI: In the US, the amount of time spent streaming videos online is growing at a much faster rate than the number of video viewers, according...
MUMBAI: Viacom18‘s International entertainment channel Vh1 has clocked a record 500,000 members on its Facebook page, which it claims is a first for any niche channel...
MUMBAI: After a long time Google has finally got into the online music business by launching a service. However if it is to make a mark...
NEW DELHI: The Government has decided to own and operate a countrywide broadband network with an optical fibre base through which different operators could provide a...
MUMBAI: Audience and ad measurement platform ViziSense recently conducted a research on the online behavior of youth in India. The dipstick study involved an online survey...
MUMBAI: Motorola Mobility Holdings has announced that at the company‘s Special Meeting of Stockholders, the stockholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the proposed merger with Google. Approximately...
MUMBAI: Global satellite operator SES has signed a capacity agreement with High TV 3D, a worldwide 3D general entertainment channel, primarily for cable distribution. High TV...
MUMBAI: The Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) and online video social network YouTube have announced a licensing agreement that will allow songwriters, music composers and music...
MUMBAI: Google has finally launched an online music service. It has launched an Android music store to compete with iTunes and Amazon.com. However, the service is...
MUMBAI: Discovery Turbo, the channel dedicated to showing all aspects of motoring life, is now available on Reliance Digital TV. The channel was already available on...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Disney, through its wholly owned subsidiary Disney Online, has acquired Babble Media – an online parenting platform featuring more than 200 influential...
MUMBAI: Arts Council England and UK pubcaster the BBC have announced a partnership to create The Space – an experimental digital arts media service and commissioning...
MUMBAI: Regina King, star of US broadcaster TNT‘s drama series ‘Southland‘ will serve as social media ambassador for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild (Sag) Awards...
BANGALORE: Independent mobile video service provider Vuclip has launched India‘s first independent mobile movie portal Starlight Cinema. Starlight Cinema will offer users the option of watching...
MUMBAI: Al Jazeera English is expanding its reach in India with launch on the leading direct-to-home (DTH) operator Dish TV. With the deal in place, the...
MUMBAI: While the digital arena is growing with the spread of the mobile Internet the lack of communication between different partners including record labels, artists and...
MUMBAI: The Dutch international public broadcaster, Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW), is launching Lovematters.info and Lovematters.in, web and mobile sites, which offer reliable information about sexual health...
NEW DELHI: Yahoo! India today announced an annual advertising partnership with OLX.in, the free online classifieds portal whereby a permanent OLX link will feature on the...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Disney-ABC Television Group‘s ABC Entertainment and the Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) have reached a wide-ranging agreement regarding the digital distribution of...
NEW DELHI: Caught in its own mandate of giving a notice of at least six months to cable operators and multi-system operators for digitisation, the Government...
MUMBAI: UTV Indiagames has partnered with Internet services provider MTS to offer their ‘Games on demand‘ (GoD) service to all the MBlaze customers. GoD is an...
MUMBAI: Fashionandyou.com, a Smile Group venture, has raised funding of $40 million from new and current investors. Led by Norwest Venture Partners and Intel Capital, Sequoia...
MUMBAI: Dish TV plans to raise up to $200 million from overseas investors even as the government has mandated digitisation, sources familiar with the development said....
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom has posted a standalone net loss of Rs 103.18 million for the second quarter of this fiscal ended 30 September. The...
MUMBAI: Asianet Satellite Communications Ltd, promoted by Rajan Raheja who also controls Hathway Cable & Datacom, has taken the radical decision of switching off its analogue...
MUMBAI: Research and Markets has announced the addition of the ‘United States Consumer Electronics Report Q4 2011 report to their offering. The US consumer electronics devices...
MUMBAI: UK Pay TV service provider Sky has unveiled a free Sky Movies app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad which offers Sky TV customers a...
MUMBAI: Singapore pay TV platform StarHub‘s subscribers of the Lifestyle and Chinese Entertainment Basic Groups can now enjoy FX and tvN at no extra charge. Fox...
MUMBAI: Direct-to-home service provider Sun Direct is offering this month a free preview of kids channels, available on the Kids Mega pack. This free preview will...
MUMBAI: Singapore pay TV operator StarHub‘s fiscal third quarter operating revenue rose by four per cent to S$572.2 million compared to S$552.3 million year-on-year (YoY). The...
MUMBAI: AOL advertising.com‘s Adtech is coming out with a new mobile software development kit (SDK) for both iOS and Android platforms. The new kit enables publishers...
MUMBAI: LED-backlit TVs and smart televisions that allow consumers to browse and view shows directly from the Internet have replaced 3D TV as the “must have”...
MUMBAI: Times Internet limited (TIL) beats Network18 and Rediff.com, according to comScore‘s latest report for September 2011. September saw 17.5 million unique visitors to the TIL...
MUMBAI: France Télécom-Orange and Publicis Groupe have announced plans to launch a new venture capital fund. The fund will finance and develop budding entrepreneurs in the...
MUMBAI: Disney Interactive and online video social network YouTube are joining forces to bring family-friendly video entertainment to the web. The alliance will bring together the...
MUMBAI: Kids‘ entertainment channel Cartoon Network has announced its new dedicated HD channel, the first amongst kids‘ broadcasters in the region. Rolling out initially in South...
MUMBAI: Smile group‘s daily deals site, dealsandyou.com, closed $17 million round of funding led by Mayfield Fund and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). Nokia Growth Partners and...
NEW DELHI: The date for receipt of feedback on the draft New Telecom Policy has been extended to 9 December to ‘accord adequate time for wider...
MUMBAI: Cable operators have got a fresh warning from their DTH rivals, ahead of the digitisation mandate. For the festive month of October, direct-to-home (DTH) operators...
MUMBAI: GroupM’s flagship media agency Mindshare is strengthening its senior leadership team. The company said Tuesday it has roped in Ashok Lalla as leader, digital for...
MUMBAI: US broadcaster Spike TV, which has tied up for the 2011 ‘Video Game Awards’ (VGAs), has announced that Mark Burnett, the producer of ‘Survivor’, ‘The...
MUMBAI: An array of organisations in the US have joined to officially launch The Future of TV Coalition with the goal of supporting and promoting digital...
MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom has become the first national multi-system operator (MSO) to launch high definition service as it gears up to fight against direct-to-home...
MUMBAI: Television format and creator FremantleMedia is bringing a new channel to online video social network YouTube as part of the social online network‘s new original...
NEW DELHI: The government may allow the digitisation of cable TV in the four metros to be complete by June next year, instead of the 31...
MUMBAI: Singapore pay TV operator StarHub‘s Demand TV, which was rebranded as On Demand from 1 November, has entered video-on-demand licensing agreements with three new studios,...
MUMBAI: Consim Info is expanding the reach of its two popular web properties – BharatMatrimony and IndiaProperty. The expanded suite of mobile services will include upgraded...
MUMBAI: Multi-screen video solutions company SeaChange International has announced an agenda of multi-screen solutions demonstrations and other conference activities for SCTE‘s Cable-Tec Expo. The expo takes...
MUMBAI: Hearst Magazines in the US is bringing two new channels to YouTube as part of the online video social network‘s new original channel‘s initiative. The...

