Twitter boosts TV revenues with CBS Amplify deal IPTV News CBS and Twitter have agreed a deal that will allow the US network to embed video clips from its shows into tweets, through the social network's Amplify service

70 million US households to have smart TVs by 2017 IPTV News Parks Associates says there will be 191 million online video users in the US by 2017, rising from 175 million at the end of this year. Senior analyst Heather Way ...

Rostelecom subsidiary to launch IPTV in Armenia Telecompaper (subscription) Armenian company GNC-Alfa, a subsidiary of Russian national operator Rostelecom, plans to launch IPTV services, reports Arka citing Ayk Paramazyan, the ...

Cox ends IPTV trial in Orange County, Calif. FierceIPTV Cable operator Cox Communications has put the kibosh its flareWatch IPTV trial with Fanhattan's Fan TV in Orange County, Calif. The trial's end was much more ...

Icelandic IPTV operator Siminn to launch OTT service using ... FierceIPTV Siminn, an Iceland-based IPTV service provider, will launch over-the-top service as part of its video entertainment package later this year, using its own content ...

Parks predicts 70M smart TVs; Comtrend gets HomeGrid Forum ... FierceIPTV ... > Parks Associates is predicting that there will be 175 million online video users in the U.S. in 2013 and that this number will climb to 191 million by 2017 when  ...

To combine OTT and IPTV, a managed network's the answer FierceIPTV That happened when everyone and his sock puppet brother started marketing Internet-based apps. Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) had shown that the Internet ...

LG Uplus nearing 3 mln broadband subs Telecompaper (subscription) South Korean telecommunications provider LG Uplus added 42,981 new IPTV subscribers in August to bring its total IPTV base to 1.41 million. The company's ...

Hungarian market growth continues Broadband TV News The Hungarian electronic communications market has undergone dramatic changes in the last few years, with digital cable and IPTV services being among the ...

Harris Automates SatLink Communications 4RFV Harris Broadcast, a global supplier of content management and network infrastructure serving broadcasters, satellite, MSOs, IPTV, mobileTV and OTT providers, ...

Mobile broadband 'fastest-growing technology ever' IPTV News Three times as many people around the world will have a mobile broadband subscription by the end of the year as have a fixed-line broadband subscription, ...

EC agrees Vodafone's Kabel Deutschland takeover IPTV News The European Commission has given its seal of approval for Vodafone's $10.4 billion takeover of Kabel Deutschland. The EC competition authority confirmed ...

Netflix's popularity poses a challenge to CRTC
The Globe and Mail-by Steve Ladurantaye
The country's cable, satellite and IPTV companies have about 12 million subscriber households, but are in a pitched battle to keep them from cutting their cords ...

 Microsoft, BesTV partnering on Chinese home entertainment Joystiq BesTV is a subsidiary of Shanghai Media Group and has 18 million IPTV subscribers across China, southeast Asia and eastern Europe. The company will likely ...