Ericsson Said to Discuss Buying TV-Software Unit From Microsoft
Bloomberg
More than 100 million people will get TV service via IPTV from phone companies this year, up from 46 million in 2010, with much of the growth in China and Japan, said Guillermo Hurtado, an analyst at Pyramid Research. The number of subscribers will ...

Bloomberg: Ericsson In Talks To Buy Microsoft's IPTV Business
Digital Media Wire
microsoftiptv_ss Bloomberg reports that Ericsson is in talks to purchase Microsoft Corp.'s IPTV business, which makes software utilized by phone companies like AT&T Inc. to provide TV online, and the deal could be announced in a few years. Cross ... 

Bloomberg: Microsoft In Talks To Sell IPTV Business To Ericsson
NASDAQ
The IPTV business, called MediaRoom, makes software used by phone companies like AT&T Inc. ( T ) to deliver television over the Internet. MediaRoom has reportedly had annual sales of around $350 million for the last three years. The unit may fetch over ...

Ericsson in talks to buy Microsoft's IPTV unit
Telecom Lead
New technologies allow players to combine their different components such as IPTV middleware, OTT back-office, Digital Rights Management Systems and Content Management Systems to provide the best video experience to Telefonica's subscribers.

Microsoft IPTV sell off hints at Xbox TV deal
T3
Microsoft has been in discussions to sell its IPTV division for some time now, as it increasingly focuses on delivering content through its Xbox platform. Recent job postings, as highlighted by The Verge, show that Microsoft may be considering using ...

Capitol digest: Health insurance co-op, women in politics
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
The program will air on IPTV at 7:30 p.m. today and noon March 31, at 8:30 a.m. March 30 on IPTV World and is available online beginning Friday evening at ...

Global IPTV Subscriptions Will Pass the 100m Mark in 2013
Sacramento Bee
BOSTON, March 20, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Global IPTV subscriptions are expected to pass the 100 million mark in 2013 and grow to 181.1 million in 2017, according to the newest report in the Research in Focus: IPTV series. As a quarterly subscription ...