Starz Entertainment LLC was wise to walk away from the bidding for Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) content and let Netflix swoop in, wrote ISI Group Inc. analyst Vijay Jayant, who thinks investors in Starz parent Liberty Media Corp. (NYSE: LMC) over-reacted to news that won't take effect until 2017. He estimates that Netflix could be paying as much as $400 million per year, and put Starz's deal at about $250 million per year. John Malone's Liberty Media plans to spin Starz into a separate public company. (See Netflix Swipes Disney Deal From Starz.)
Synacor Inc. , the Buffalo, N.Y.-based developer of TV Everywhere authentication systems and Web portals, is expanding into social gaming after notching a partnership with Zynga Inc. , the creator of titles such as FarmVille and Words With Friends. The deal will help Synacor's pay-TV partners, which include Charter Communications Inc. and CenturyLink Inc. (NYSE: CTL), offer access to Zynga games via their customer home pages.
Video software specialist SeaChange International Inc. (Nasdaq: SEAC) posted fiscal third-quarter GAAP net income of $600,000 (2 cents per share) on revenues of $39.2 million, down from year-ago revenues of $42.9 million. SeaChange also increased 2013 revenue guidance in the range of $155 million to $159 million.
Netflix has tagged the PlayStation3 as the "top platform" for development, meaning it will be the first to get new features and access to more content than other devices.
re: Verizon/Redbox Video Service Hits Pause Button
Anyone things the delay is a big deal? Maybe it's not when considering the grand scheme of things, but they'll miss out on any holiday tailwinds. But are video subscription services the kind of thing you'd use as a stocking stuffer? JB
On day 3 of Mobile World Congress Light Reading takes a look at Huawei's Agile Digital Business area and recaps some of the highlights including their Broadway Forum and the previous night's Official Dinner.
Some main business scenarios for operators' enterprise solution:
1. Connected corporate Solution
2. Office in a BOX Solution—Hosted SME/One-stop Micro DC
3. Vertical Industries Solutions
4. Enterprise ICT Cloud Services Solutions
Carriers seeking to cooperate with OTT and change business model from B2C to B2B2C will demand higher network quality. Moving services to the cloud means the network pipe becomes significantly longer. It's an industry challenge to protect the quality of long-distance IP pipe and rapid fault location. This video will explore how to achieve equal cooperation with ...
Sun Jiawei, Marketing Director of Huawei IT product line, reveals the launch plan of OceanStor 18000 in the West European market and Huawei big data storage products.
In the LTE era, antenna faces the challenge from spectrum, site resource and network capacity. Huawei SingleAntenna solution meets the challenges and strengthens the network performance for operators.
Telefonica GCTO Director Cayetano Carbajo chats with Light Reading about how the operator has created an excellent network and how Huawei technology underpins it.
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Berit Svendsen, CEO of Telenor Norway, Frode Støldal, CTO of Telenor Norway, Peter Zhou, President of Huawei Small Cell & Wifi, Eric Zhang, CEO of Huawei Norway AS, interviewed by Light Reading about the challenge faced by Telenor Norway and why it selected Huawei's LampSite Solution.
The new open digital economy will be a diamond shaped industry– where we will witness a significant shifting from a vertically-integrated to a horizontally-integrated industry, disaggregating into a set of layers. There are three layers from the bottom to the top: Communications & Cloud Infrastructure Provider, Service Creation and Provision and Service Retailer. ...
In the era of the digital economy, why Big Data initiatives are different from the traditional legacy approach to analytics. Looking at business application related scenarios, which include Innovative Business Models, Precise Marketing, Operational Efficiency, Real-time Analysis & Decision Making, Customer Experience Enhancement etc. – how advanced analytics and ...
On day 3 of Mobile World Congress Light Reading takes a look at Huawei's Agile Digital Business area and recaps some of the highlights including their Broadway Forum and the previous night's Official Dinner.
Some main business scenarios for operators' enterprise solution:
1. Connected corporate Solution
2. Office in a BOX Solution—Hosted SME/One-stop Micro DC
3. Vertical Industries Solutions
4. Enterprise ICT Cloud Services Solutions
Carriers seeking to cooperate with OTT and change business model from B2C to B2B2C will demand higher network quality. Moving services to the cloud means the network pipe becomes significantly longer. It's an industry challenge to protect the quality of long-distance IP pipe and rapid fault location. This video will explore how to achieve equal cooperation with ...
Sun Jiawei, Marketing Director of Huawei IT product line, reveals the launch plan of OceanStor 18000 in the West European market and Huawei big data storage products.
In the LTE era, antenna faces the challenge from spectrum, site resource and network capacity. Huawei SingleAntenna solution meets the challenges and strengthens the network performance for operators.
Telefonica GCTO Director Cayetano Carbajo chats with Light Reading about how the operator has created an excellent network and how Huawei technology underpins it.
Berit Svendsen, CEO of Telenor Norway, Frode Støldal, CTO of Telenor Norway, Peter Zhou, President of Huawei Small Cell & Wifi, Eric Zhang, CEO of Huawei Norway AS, interviewed by Light Reading about the challenge faced by Telenor Norway and why it selected Huawei's LampSite Solution.
The new open digital economy will be a diamond shaped industry– where we will witness a significant shifting from a vertically-integrated to a horizontally-integrated industry, disaggregating into a set of layers. There are three layers from the bottom to the top: Communications & Cloud Infrastructure Provider, Service Creation and Provision and Service Retailer. ...
In the era of the digital economy, why Big Data initiatives are different from the traditional legacy approach to analytics. Looking at business application related scenarios, which include Innovative Business Models, Precise Marketing, Operational Efficiency, Real-time Analysis & Decision Making, Customer Experience Enhancement etc. – how advanced analytics and ...
Facing the changes and challenges of the digital age, CSPs' BSS also needs to be digital, and transform from a supporting system to enablement platform. BSS could reconstruct from five dimensions as product, customer, experience, value chain and infrastructure; to achieve agile business, open partner exchange and improved customer engagement.
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