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Harmonic announced its intention to acquire Thomson Video Networks (“TVN”), a compression solution provider based in France. 

Dell has offered $27.25 per share to acquire EMC, which has a market cap of approximately $50 billion, according to a report.

Among consumers who have cut the pay-TV cord within the last two years but who express any interest in returning to pay-TV, two out of five (39%) say sports channels are a reason to return, according to new survey by Frank N. Magid Associates.

Global IPTV STB company Amino Technologies has conditionally agreed to acquire Entone for a total of USD 73.0 million, or GBP 46.7 million. Amino said that Entone, a provider of cloud TV and connected home products, will help increase its global footprint and scale and consolidate a direct competitor. Amino expects EBIT synergies of GBP 1.0 million in first full year of ownership.

95% of consumers using catch up services are unwilling to allow media companies to share their personal data with a third party, according to the findings of the KPMG Media Tracker.

OTT video service credential sharing will cost the industry $500 million in direct revenues worldwide in 2015, according to new research from Parks Associates.

US cable company Charter Communications officially announced Tuesday that it’s buying Time Warner Cable, with a far more generous offer than the botched attempt by Comcast that unravelled in April.

Acquisition enhances Imagine Communications’ end-to-end video distribution capability with Dynamic Ad Insertion, Just-in-Time Packaging and Cloud DVR Technology.

More than six in ten (62%) UK households pay for TV, spending an average of £33 per month, according to new research from price comparison service uSwitch.com.

Worldwide ultra-HD capable set-top box shipments will reach 48 million by 2020, while the market for HEVC set-top boxes—the next-generation of video compression technology—will rise even further to 88 million units.

Samsung Electronics announced its plans to further expand its UHD ecosystem by working with global content partners to help accelerate consumer adoption and access to UHD content.

Nine out of 10 Britons still regularly watch linear TV on the main screen, while 85% prefer the TV to other screens available to them, according to research commissioned by playout technology provider Broadstream Solutions.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has green-lighted IBM’s sale of its low-end server division to PC maker Lenovo.

Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, has set a new broadband speed record of 10 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) using traditional copper telephone lines and a prototype technology that demonstrates how existing copper access networks can be used to deliver 1Gbps symmetrical ultra-broadband access services.

Focusing on the growing impact of the Video On Demand (VOD) platform on the media landscape, Nielsen’s Q1 2014 Cross-Platform Report reflects that VOD users of all ethnicities actually watch more TV—live or time-shifted – than non-VOD users. Overall, people in VOD homes, watch an hour and five minutes of live television per day compared to the fifty-four minutes of live TV time among non-VOD users. This was found to be true over all VOD platforms measured by Nielsen.