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Zattoo, the European TV Streaming and TV-as-a-Service provider, has announced that Sky Switzerland, a provider of OTT pay television and VoD services for the Swiss market, is working closely with Zattoo as a lighthouse customer for its newly launched suite of Stream API services on Sky Switzerland’s platform, powering applications, frontends and devices in the…

SoftAtHome, an independent software provider for connected home ecosystems, has announced the appointment of Arnaud Bellivier de Prin as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). With over two decades of leadership in the IT and telecom industries, Bellivier de Prin brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud, security, digital transformation, and operational excellence to SoftAtHome.…

Walkers’ rework of its #CrispIN or #CrispOUT campaign has once again proved a hit according to System1, the testing platform for effective ads, demonstrating the power of audience familiarity as an effective TV ad and new product development strategy. The new creative scored a ‘Strong’ 4.6 Star Rating (long-term market share growth), alongside an ‘Exceptional’…

Surge pricing on shipping this Black Friday (November 29th) could dampen the profits of independent online electronics stores – making it more difficult than ever to compete with the ecommerce giants. New figures reveal that almost a third of firms in the supply chain sector (32 per cent) saw their carrier costs jump in November 2023…

LG has sold its last-remaining LCD TV panel production facility. The factory, based in Guangzhou, China, has been sold to TCL for 2 trillion won (€1.35bn). It will be handed over to the new owners on March 31st 2025. The plant is currently busy producing low-end and mid-range LCD TV panels used in various products,…

Warner Bros International Television Production (WBITVP) has announcd that Ben Pays will join WBITVP Belgium as Managing Director on October 7th. Pays will be responsible for the general management and commercial and operational leadership of WBITVPB’s non-scripted entertainment and authentic fiction business. He is also charged with developing new ideas and adapting existing IP from…

An outdoor small cell project in the City of London has been a success and has thus now moved beyond the trial phase. Twenty-five new sites for mobile network operator (MNO) EE are now live on Freshwave’s infrastructure, adding capacity and enhancing the 4G and 5G network experience for EE mobile users in one of…

It should not be forgotten in the acres of business news coverage over the DirecTV (and TPG) acquisition of DISH Network that in selling DISH, chairman Charlie Ergen is very much giving up his ‘baby’. When his EchoStar 1 satellite was launched on a Chinese Long March rocket in 1995 Ergen was in the launch…

UK telcos Vodafone and Three’s response to the UK Competitions and Markets Authority’s (CMA) Notice of Possible Remedies (Remedies Notice) has been published. The pair disagree with the CMA’s Provisional Findings, suggesting the merger will be pro-growth, pro-customer, pro-investment and pro-competitive for the UK. “It is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform UK digital infrastructure with…

The UK’s counter-extremism strategy isn’t working – and prison sentences won’t change that There have been at least 1,400 arrests and more than 850 charges linked to the riots that swept England in August, with more in the pipeline. So far about 250 people have been jailed for their role in violent disorder fuelled by…