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BBC celebrates ‘best ever’ iPlayer performance

New Year’s Day was the best day ever for the iPlayer with 11 million TV…

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Antenna appoints former NBC Universal, Cineflix Studios boss

Pete Smith, the former NBC Universal and Cineflix Studios boss, has been recruited as managing…

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Sony collaborates with Netflix on 4K streaming

Sony is optimising its 2014 line of 4K Ultra HD TVs to support 4K streaming…

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Channel 4 removes shows from YouTube

UK broadcaster Channel 4 has taken down all of its programming from Google-owned streaming service…

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Liberty close to Ziggo deal

Liberty Global is reportedly close to finalising a takeover deal for Dutch cable operator Ziggo,…

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Panasonic and Mozilla partner on Firefox OS for smart TVs

Panasonic and Mozilla have partnered to develop and promote Firefox OS – a new open…

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SES and Eutelsat sell Solaris Mobile to EchoStar

SES and Eutelsat have sold their Dublin-based joint venture, mobile satellite services (MSS) operator Solaris…

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LG launches webOS smart TVs

LG has launched its new smart TV platform webOS at the Consumer Electronics Show in…

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Zenterio and Vestel partner on Africa-targeted DVB-T2 STB

Consumer electronics provider Vestel and Swedish operating system platform maker Zenterio are partnering on a…

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Jinni and Ooyala partner on video discovery

Search and discovery software provider Jinni is partnering with video streaming and analytics firm Ooyala…

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Cisco expands Videoscape TV platform

Cisco has expanded its Videoscape TV services platform to include new cloud video capabilities, it…

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Israel’s Yes gears up for pay-OTT launch

Israeli satellite TV operator Yes has partnered with pay-OTT platform provider Tvinci to launch a new…

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Roku launches first integrated TV sets

Over-the-top set-top-box maker Roku has partnered with TCL and Hisense to launch the first TV…

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Ultra HD TV shipments to jump more than 500%

Ultra High Definition (UHD) display LCD TV shipments are expected to increase by more than…

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Discovery extends CEO Zaslav’s contract

Discovery Communications has extended the contract of president and CEO David Zaslav to the end…

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Black and white TV viewing drops to 12,000 in the UK

The number of UK homes watching TV on black and white sets has dropped below…

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Swisscom hits 1 million TV customers

Swiss telco Swisscom claims its number of TV customers has passed the one million mark,…

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Vine goes live on the web

Twitter’s mobile video service Vine has gone live on the web for the first time…

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‘TV devices’ to reach 7 billion by 2017

The global installed base of ‘TV-addressable screens’ is in the midst of a second wave…

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Lovefilm agrees exclusive Vikings deal

Amazon’s UK streaming service Lovefilm has bought rights to season two of drama series Vikings. The…

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DreamWorks Animation joins tablet market

US-based DreamWorks Animation is to launch a tablet that will offer in-house content and programming…

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Opera partners with Samsung

Opera Software has partnered with Samsung, marking the tenth company that has signed up to…

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Technicolor partners with IBM in cloud push

Technicolor has teamed up with IBM to develop a cloud-based monitoring and management service, Virdata, targeted at…

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Russian VOD service Stream.ru gears up for expansion

Russian video-on-demand service Stream.ru is gearing up for a Ukrainian launch, with more rollouts in…

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LG to showcase OLED TV lineup, rumours of webOS TV launch

LG is gearing up to show off what it claims is “the most comprehensive OLED…

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Netflix tests new staggered price tier

Netflix is reportedly testing a new low-cost price tier in the US, which will allow…

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21st Century Fox sells Star China TV stake

Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has sold its entire 47% stake in Star China TV…

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BBC launches new The Voice app

The BBC has launched a new app for series three of singing competition show The…

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Eutelsat closes Satmex deal

European satellite operator Eutelsat has closed its US$831 million (€609 million) acquisition of Latin American…

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Motive Television signs VOD deal with Siyaya Free To Air TV

UK-based TV technology services firm Motive Television has finalised an operation and services deal with South…