Comcast bid highest in a quick-fire auction of Sky, dealing Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox a potential knock-out blow in their battle for Europe’s largest satellite broadcaster.
Discarded by its globe-trotting parent Naspers after more than three decades, African pay-television heavyweight MultiChoice Group is facing an uncertain future.
MultiChoice South Africa CEO Calvo Mawela is confident the pay-television broadcaster can arrest the decline in the number of lucrative DStv Premium bouquet customers on its books.
Netflix won the most Emmy awards of any TV network on Monday night, capping a sudden and dramatic rise to the top of the entertainment industry for a company that got its start as a DVD-by-mail operation.
Amazon.com headed for its biggest gain in four months, pulling within US$26-billion of becoming America’s second trillion-dollar company, after Morgan Stanley said sales growth remains strong.
If you need proof that giant technology companies behave a lot like borderless governments, look no further than the brewing “app store taxes” debate.
A backlash against the app stores of Apple and Google is gaining steam, with a growing number of companies saying the tech giants are collecting too high a tax for connecting consumers to developers’ wares.
For a technology sector on the verge of begetting two trillion-dollar companies in Amazon.com and Apple, the requirements are getting daunting.
After all the controversy Facebook has generated in recent months, it seemed almost inevitable that at some point the social media giant would get what it had coming. A reckoning.
Netflix is having a laugh – apparently at the expensive of MultiChoice’s DStv. It has posted a video on its social media channels about the supposed difficulties involved in installing a satellite-based television service.