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Month: December 2014

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Social media is not just talking about TV anymore—they’re making it now, too

December 23, 2014 Jim O’Neill

Facebook is getting into the TV business, working with HLN on a new series pilot to air in 2015, Variety reported. Although the format is yet to be determined, the series will look to the Read More

Content Deals

Fox News, Business blacked out on Dish; But, whodunnit?

December 22, 2014 Jim O’Neill

The fight between Dish Network and Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel – which currently are blacked out for Dish customers, has, as carriage deals are wont to do these days, turned nastier. Fox Read More

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Mobile

Elemental adds $14.5M in Series D funding led by Telstra, Sky

December 22, 2014 Jim O’Neill

Elemental Technologies today said it had raised $14.5 million in a Series D funding round that it said would be used to continue to scale the company’s global expansion efforts. The round was led by Read More

APAC

Smartphone to make up nearly 50% of global CE sales by 2018

December 19, 2014 Jim O’Neill

New research says smartphones will continue to see strong growth through 2017 worldwide as prices drop and demand increases. Futuresource Consulting forecast overall CE spend to reach $733 billion by 2018, with smartphone sales peaking Read More

Broadband

Report: Growth of broadband-only homes in US accelerating

December 19, 2014 Jim O’Neill

The number of broadband-only homes in the United States is increasing at an accelerating rate, a recent report says, with nearly 10.7 million U.S. homes getting Internet and no pay-TV service in Q3 2014. That’s Read More

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EMEA

French see rise in smartphone, tablet penetration as TVs decline

December 19, 2014 Jim O’Neill

Smartphones and tablets continue to increase their penetration into French homes, even as traditional television screens continue their retreat. For the first half of 2014, France’s Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) said more than 59% Read More

Pay TV

Pop a cork for Netflix-Dish deal? Maybe, but for whom?

December 19, 2014 Jim O’Neill

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has long maintained that he’d like to see his company perceived as just another premium cable channel, and with satellite TV operator Dish Network’s announcement Wednesday that the streamer would be Read More

APAC

Australians increase amount of time-shifted video consumed

December 18, 2014 Jim O’Neill

Australians continue to watch more television on more devices, according to a new report, which also said time-shifted viewing continues to gain traction. The Australian Multi-screen Q3 2014 Report also found that – much like Read More

VOD

UltraViolet fighting to become relevant, has an uphill battle

December 18, 2014 Jim O’Neill

UltraViolet, which consumers ignored en masse at its launch in 2011 because of confusion over what it was, a difficult user interface and spare content, is showing signs of life. The digital video locker this Read More

Connected TVs & Devices

Tablet ownership outpaces other connected devices in US; create new rev ops for providers

December 16, 2014 Jim O’Neill

The reports of the demise of tablet ownership growth in the United States appear to be overstated, as recent research from NPD Group shows sales are not only growing, but at a faster clip than Read More

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