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SUWANEE, Ga., April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — ARRIS Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRS) today announced that the U.S. Department of Justice has cleared ARRIS’ proposed acquisition of the Motorola Home business from a subsidiary of Google.

New VMG Gen 2 Strengthens RGB’s ’Multiscreen 2.0′ Solution Delivering Highest Video Quality and Processing Density Without Compromise.

Teleste’s intelligent deep fibre node AC8700 has been shortlisted at 2013 SCTE Technological Innovation Awards. The AC8700 is one of the three entries shortlisted for the category of ‘Best Broadband Network Transmission Solution’.

Teleste Luminato has received an UltraHD test broadcast from Eutelsat 10A satellite. The broadcast belongs to a 4K TV demonstration channel launched by the satellite operator Eutelsat. The channel is the world’s first live 4K TV channel, and it has been designed to benefit all actors in the broadcasting chain who want to acquire expertise in 4K, including production companies, pay TV operators, rights owners and TV set manufacturers.

Cisco has entered into an agreement to sell its home networking business unit, including the Linksys brand, to Belkin for an undisclosed amount. The company will account for around 30 percent of the US home and small business networking market after the transaction closes. Belkin CEO Chet Pipkin said the company aims to eventually become the global leader in connected home and wireless networking and the acquisition is an important step to that end.

ARRIS announced that we have entered into a definitive agreement with Google under which ARRIS will acquire the Motorola Home Business from Motorola Mobility, a Google subsidiary, for $2.35 billion in a cash-and-stock transaction. This transformative combination creates a global player in innovative end-to-end broadband video solutions.

September 7 2012 - Appear TV, a leading global provider of next-generation head-ends for broadcast and IP television, today announced that the IBC launch of its DVB-T2 gateway means that it can now provide the only true end-to-end system for DVB-T/T2. Appear TV DVB-T/T2 designed and built solutions include all the elements required to complete a DVB terrestrial platform head-end including statistical multiplexing for increased bandwidth efficiency.

Bridge Technologies’ VB330 is the recipient of a 2012 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award, given by the editorial staff of TV Technology Europe magazine at the 2012 IBC convention.

Bridge Technologies has announced that its OTT monitoring engine is now shipping for all Bridge Technologies probes. The OTT engine can be added as an option to the entire line of rack mounted and portable probes, to give true end-to-end OTT monitoring capability alongside monitoring of cable, satellite and terrestrial services, without adding unnecessary extra layers of infrastructure.

The next generation of advanced media monitoring is rolling out for the market. The new VB330 has been designed with a super-powerful 8-core multiprocessing CPU, making it possible to monitor every single streamed video in your network. It is fair to say that this new flagship probe is a must for any high-speed network and production system.

CommScope Holding Co. agreed to buy Arris International Plc for about $7.4 billion including debt payments, creating a U.S. powerhouse in telecommunications networking equipment.

Comcast's dramatic shoot-out with the US entertainment giant ends 21 months of uncertainty for Sky over its ownership.

The deal values DreamWorks at approximately $3.8 billion and implies a 27 percent premium to the stock's Wednesday closing price of $32.20.

Amazon is going to war with Netflix.
The online-retail giant is letting customers subscribe to its video-streaming service by itself for the first time, CNN Money reports — creating a standalone service that acts as a direct competitor to Netflix.

A Chinese consortium has made a $1.2 billion offer to purchase the Norwegian browser company Opera.