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Feb 9, 2012 6:39 AM
Virgin Media thinks its new-ish TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set top box is a game changer. But, whilst the new box - with a big PVR drive, capability for over-the-top services and integrated broadcaster catch-up - is a large improvement on its predecessor, one year after launch, some aspects are more…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, VOD, Companies, Virgin, Virgin Media
Feb 8, 2012 3:58 AM
UK pay-TV and broadband telco Virgin Media clocked its first annual profit in 2011, as its TV set top boxes continued to be an engine of video on-demand viewership.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Money, Earnings, Companies, Virgin, Virgin Media
Nov 29, 2011 5:16 AM
Virgin Media has finally made live Spotify’s first UK TV app. Virgin Media customers who are Spotify Premium subscribers can access the music service through Virgin’s new TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set-top box.
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Companies, Spotify, Virgin, Virgin Media
Nov 15, 2011 8:38 AM
Virgin Media’s TV and online commercial executive director Alex Green is defecting to BT (NYSE: BT) to become TV commercial and product director.
Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, BT, Virgin, Virgin Media
Nov 8, 2011 10:47 AM
Richard Branson is no stranger to investing in mobile media: among his more notable moves have been establishing *Virgin Mobile* years ago, and more recently moving into iPad publishing with Project magazine. Today comes news of his latest foray into the wireless world: an investment in the mobile payments startup…
Posted In: E-Commerce, Travel, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android, Virgin, Virgin Mobile, jack dorsey, richard branson, square
Nov 3, 2011 5:19 PM
According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expected to rise to 1.6 billion by 2014. Today, announcements from streamed entertainment provider Aspiro and the music download service 7digital point—respectively announcing a new white-label distribution deal and…
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Music, Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Companies, Apple, CBS, CBS Interactive, Last.fm, Google, Android, RIM, BlackBerry, Samsung, Spotify, Virgin, Virgin Media, Countries, Europe, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, UK, 7digital, aspiro
Oct 31, 2011 6:20 AM
When Virgin Media’s CEO said this summer he would bundle Spotify with his services at “significantly less” than Spotify’s own £9.99 Premium charge, we assumed it would mean a permanent monthly discount. What transpires is that Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) will front-load any discount by providing only short-term Spotify free…
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Companies, Spotify, Virgin, Virgin Media
Oct 27, 2011 8:13 AM
“Appetite for next-generation services is growing faster than we anticipated,” Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett told City analysts, as he unveiled 2.2 percent higher quarterly revenue of £1 billion.
Posted In: Money, Earnings, Companies, Virgin, Virgin Media
Oct 17, 2011 4:54 AM
The co-creators of the Virgin-branded iPad magazine Project are merging it with an iPad newsstand service, Other Edition, creating a new company called Virgin Interactive Publishing (VIP).
Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Apple, iPad, Virgin
Sep 7, 2011 6:06 AM
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks—a sentiment that they have held on to despite some high-profile services having failed to meet expectations. Now Everything Everywhere—the JV of Orange and T-Mobile in…
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Music, Sports, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, 3G, Broadband, Companies, BBC, France Telecom, Orange, Google, Android, ITV, Qualcomm, Spotify, T-Mobile, Virgin, Virgin Media, Countries, Europe, UK
Sep 6, 2011 5:17 PM
Another mobile operator is taking a crack at the streaming music market: France Telecom’s Orange is partnering with Deezer—France’s answer to Spotify—to launch an exclusive mobile music service that will effectively be offered “free” to those who sign up for Orange’s premium, two-year service plans.
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Companies, Dailymotion, France Telecom, Orange, RIM, Spotify, T-Mobile, Virgin, Virgin Media, Vodafone, Countries, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, deezer
Sep 1, 2011 6:44 AM
Back in November, Channel 4 launched Film4oD, a web-based, on-demand adjunct to its Film4 linear channels that requires payment for movies. It doesn’t seem to have made much of a splash. But web is just the start…
Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, VOD, Companies, Channel 4, Virgin, Virgin Media
Aug 19, 2011 3:35 AM
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has been ordered to weaken its stranglehold on Hollywood films on pay-TV after an investigation by the Competition Commission. In a provisional decision published on Friday morning, the commission said that BSkyB’s contracts with the six major Hollywood studios present a significant barrier to entry to potential…
Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Companies, News Corp., BSkyB, Virgin, Virgin Media, Countries, Europe, UK
Jul 27, 2011 11:00 AM
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett says he will bundle Spotify with his broadband service for a “very, very low monthly subscription”.
Posted In: Companies, Spotify, Virgin, Virgin Media
Jul 18, 2011 7:06 AM
All change in the UK mobile world: Tom Alexander, the CEO of Everything Everywhere—the mobile operator JV between France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile—has resigned and is getting replaced by Olaf Swantee, a longtime France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) operative.
Posted In: Industry Moves, Mobile, Companies, France Telecom, Orange, O2, T-Mobile, Virgin, Virgin Mobile, Vodafone, Countries, Europe, UK, France, olaf swantee, tom alexander
Jun 30, 2011 6:03 AM
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is close to announcing a deal with Spotify and four record companies to launch a new digital music service – more than two years after first unveiling plans to do so.
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, IPTV, Companies, Virgin, Virgin Media
Apr 20, 2011 8:50 AM
UK telco and TV platform Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) could ape its rival BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) by investing in a public WiFi network, so that its subscribers can consume their TV bouquet on the go.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Mobile, Companies, News Corp., BSkyB, Virgin, Virgin Media
Apr 11, 2011 5:04 AM
We still don’t have the official, bigger picture of what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) intends to do in its music strategy, and whether it will have what it takes to make an effective inroad into the legitimate digital music market dominated by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but now we have what appears…
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Nokia, RIM, BlackBerry, Samsung, Virgin, Virgin Media, Countries, Canada, Europe, UK, pushlife
Apr 4, 2011 10:50 AM
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is extending its existing relationship with mobile data company Motricity, as it aims to make mobile entertainment a proper part of its quad-play mix (release).
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Mobile, Companies, Virgin, Virgin Media, motricity
Mar 29, 2011 6:18 AM
The UK’s Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that strips TV EPG maker Gemstar, now part of Rovi, of three patents.
Posted In: Legal, Appeals, Patents, Companies, Virgin, Virgin Media, rovi
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