Comcast Corp. and NBCUniversal LLC are giving zeebox's entry to the U.S. market a big lift by making an undisclosed investment in the startup and becoming "strategic launch partners" for a company that develops second-screen companion apps, including interactive advertising and social networking, that synchs tablets, smartphones and other connected devices to live TV programming. Time Warner Inc.-owned premium programmers HBO and Cinemax are also on board with zeebox, which launched in the U.K. in 2011.
Dish Network Corp. will soon start selling a new satellite broadband service targeted to rural areas under the DishNET brand that will offer downstream speeds of either 5 Mbit/s or 10 Mbit/s along with a 1 Mbit/s upsteam, reports Multichannel News. Dish will start taking orders for the service, offered in partnership with ViaSat Inc. and Hughes Network Systems Inc. and subject to usage caps, on Oct. 1.
Celeno Communications, a maker of Wi-Fi chips optimized for in-home video distribution on set-tops and gateways, has closed a $24 million "E" round that brings its total funding to more than $68 million. Celeno will use the funds in part to support a development program for 802.11ac, an emerging Wi-Fi standard that's targeting speeds of 1 Gbit/s. Cisco Systems Inc. and Liberty Global Inc., which is using Celeno chips inside its new Horizon TV gateways, are among the existing investors that participated in the "over-subscribed" round. (See Celeno Joins Liberty's Video Gateway Lineup and Liberty Global Embarks on New TV Horizon.)
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