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Motorola Mobility Announces Third Quarter Financial Results
Oct 27, 2011 – Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) has reported results for the third quarter of 2011. Home segment net revenues were $825 million, down 10 percent compared with the year-ago quarter. GAAP operating earnings were $54 million.
News categories: Motorola, Cable TV, Content Distribution, IPTV, Results, Set Top Box

CSR (Zoran) Third Quarter 2011 Results
Oct 26, 2011 – CSR (LSE: CSR) has reported third quarter results for the 13 weeks to 30 September 2011. With the completion of the Zoran merger on 31 August, Zoran contributed one month of revenues to CSR's third quarter.
News categories: CSR plc, DVD, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Broadcom Reports Third Quarter 2011 Results
Oct 25, 2011 – Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) has reported results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2011. Net revenue for the third quarter was $1.96 billion representing an increase of 8.4% compared with the $1.81 billion reported for the third quarter of 2010.
News categories: Broadcom, Cable TV, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

ADB Group reports a mid-period business update
Oct 25, 2011 – ADB (SIX: ADBN) has given an update on the development of its business. Top line growth remains subdued due to the scaling down of the terrestrial business, discontinuation of the retail segment and the overall macroeconomic situation.
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast, Results, Set Top Box

STMicroelectronics Reports 2011 Third Quarter and Nine Month Financial Results
Oct 24, 2011 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has reported results for the third quarter and nine months ended October 1, 2011. ST's third quarter net revenues decreased 4.9% on a sequential basis, with all regions down sequentially except the Japan & Korea region.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Entropic Communications, Zenverge to Enable TV and Movies on Any Screen
Sep 26, 2011 – Entropic Communications (Nasdaq:ENTR) and Zenverge have announced a strategic partnership to co-develop solutions and align product roadmaps for the delivery of content with powerful transcoding technology over a MoCA® 2.0 home network.
News categories: Entropic Communications, Zenverge, MandA, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Sigma Designs Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2012 Results
Aug 24, 2011 – Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM) has reported results for its quarter ended July 30, 2011. Net revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 was $46.7 million, down $26.6 million, or 36%, from $73.3 million reported for the same period last year.
News categories: Sigma Designs, IPTV, Results, Semiconductor

Kudelski reports 2011 half year results
Aug 23, 2011 – The Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) has announced its 2011 half year results. Group total revenues in constant currency declined by 8.5%, while reported total revenues dropped by 21.9% compared to the first half of last year, reaching CHF 392.2 million.
News categories: Kudelski, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Middleware, Results, Satellite, Streaming, Terrestrial

Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility
Aug 15, 2011 – Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion.
News categories: Google Inc, Motorola, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, MandA, Middleware, Mobile, Patent, Set Top Box, Smartphone, Streaming, Tablet