LONDON -- News Corporation today acquired Telecom Italia S.p.A.'s 19.9% stake in Sky Italia S.r.l., the satellite pay TV platform in Italy. News Corporation paid EUR 88 million for the stake, bringing News Corporation companies to hold 100% of Sky Italia.
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands -- Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVID) today announced a project with Sky Italia, a leading Italian digital broadcaster, involving the implementation of a tapeless workflow based around two Avid UnityR for News MediaNetwork shared-storage systems. The two-phased project will ultimately allow Sky Italia's 24-hour news channel, Sky TG...
SALTAIRE, England -- Pace Micro Technology plc (LSE:PIC), the leading dedicated innovator of technology solutions for the payTV industry, has been selected by SKY Italia as the launch partner to provide personal video recorder PVR set-top boxes for its new 'MySKY' service. E[acute accent]The PVR Pace has developed for SKY...
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNXT), a worldwide leader in semiconductor solutions for broadband communications and the digital home, today announced that its complete DVB-S2/MPEG-4 satellite set-top box STB solution has been chosen by Amstrad PLC, a leading international manufacturer of digital STBs, for their new high-definition television...
NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp NWSa said its fourth quarter net profit rose 27 percent from asset sales and profit gains in most divisions, but it faces less robust growth in its current fiscal year. Sales of its interests in Fox Sports...
By Kenneth Li NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp reported a 27 percent increase in its fiscal fourth-quarter net income, but said it faces a "much more difficult economic environment" in its current year that will continue to hurt local television...