VC/M&A news from FierceIPTV
NewsTop video VC fund raisers through August 2007
FierceIPTV presents the top venture cap fund raisers in the online video space, as compiled from PE Week and VentureBeat among other sources. The top five include a YouTube challenger in Paris, two Read more...
SureWest climbs Everest to new IPTV heights
SureWest Communications posted 180 percent growth in IPTV subscribers during the first quarter, but before you start copying their marketing materials, consider that most of that growth--about 172 Read more...
Verizon: High-tech households driving GPON
Michael Daigle, vice president of network planning at Verizon Communications, sees the multi-user, multi-device home as the major driver for the telco's ongoing deployment of gigabit passive optical Read more...
Breaking: Microsoft bids $45 billion for Yahoo
Microsoft has bid $45 billion for the Yahoo business in a unsolicited bid for the internet portal. The bid represents a 61 per cent premium to the Yahoo closing price of $31. The offer if Read more...
Avail ready to exploit tier 2 IPTV uptake
North Virginia based Avail Media has secured $25 million in B round venture capital as it seeks to exploit the rush in demand for programming from tier two and three US telcos. Avail was started by Read more...
Spanish giant plays with IPTV
Spanish owned UK Mobile operator, Telefonica O2, is to begin playing in the IPTV space and is looking for modest investments in early start up video 2.0 businesses and mobile advertising. O2 UK Read more...
Oi to do mobile TV in Brazil
The mobile unit of Brazilian telecoms group Oi is launching a mobile TV service Nov. 19, including exclusive content which subscribers can buy a day pass to access. The mobile TV package has been put Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Alcatel-Lucent acquire interactive ad firm
Alcatel-Lucent beefed up its IPTV product platform last week with the acquisition of Tamblin, a London-based company that specializes in interactive advertising. FierceTelecom Read more...
Teachers offer to buy out Bell CanadaThe board of Canada's largest communications concern, Bell Canada Enterprises, agreed over the weekend to take the company private in the largest leveraged buy out in market history. Bell … Read more...Nortel to go on IPTV M&A spree?UBS analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos thinks Nortel is set to go on an M&A spree with an eye toward IPTV and WiMAX companies. Nortel recently resolved its debt refinancing, a class action lawsuit Read more... | Press ReleasesAccenture to Acquire Origin Digital, Expanding Capabilities in Media, Entertainment and Communications IndustriesAccenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into an agreement to acquire Origin Digital, Inc., a privately held New Jersey-based company that provides rich video capture, transformation and delivery services Read more... Vodafone Announces the Acquisition of ZYBVodafone* today announces that it has agreed to acquire 100% of ZYB, a privately-owned company based in Denmark which operates a social networking and online management tool enabling mobile phone Read more... Viigo Secures Addition to First Round of Venture Capital FinancingViigo, the software company behind a revolutionary way to publish, discover and consume content on mobile devices, today announced RBC Venture Partners has made a $1.5 million follow-on investment to Read more... dotMobi Acquires Mowser AssetsdotMobi -- the company behind the .mobi internet domain name for mobile phones and the dev.mobi developer forum -- today announced it has acquired the intellectual property assets of Mowser, a San Read more... PlayPhone Goes GlobalPlayPhone, Inc.
(www.playphone.com), which operates the largest network of mobile content
destinations in North America, announced today that it has joined Read more... |