Finance (M&A, results, venture capital, private equity, …) News

Telenor (Canal Digital) Second Quarter 2008
Jul 23, 2008 – Revenues in the Canal Digital Group of Telenor (Oslo:TEL) increased primarily due to higher revenues from sales of additional services to cable TV subscribers, hardware sales to DTH and cable TV subscribers, and resale of EURO2008 distribution rights.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Denmark, Digital TV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

STMicroelectronics Reports 2008 Second Quarter and First Half Revenues and Earnings
Jul 22, 2008 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) continued to increase shipments of its leading-edge H.264 decoder chips for the worldwide deployment of high-definition digital set-top-boxes and integrated digital TVs.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Broadcom Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Jul 22, 2008 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has reported unaudited financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2008. Net revenue for the second quarter was $1.201 billion, an increase of 16.3% compared with the $1.032 billion reported for the first quarter.
News categories: Broadcom, Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor

MTG financial results for the second quarter and six months ended 30 June 2008
Jul 22, 2008 – MTG (OMX: MTGA, MTGB) has announced its financial results for the second quarter. The number of subscribers with ViasatPlus Personal Video Recorders increased from 82,000 at the end of the first quarter to 95,000 at the end of the second.
News categories: Modern Times Group, Denmark, Digital TV, DVR, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

Heavy investment in Europe's cable industry begins to pay off
Jul 22, 2008 – Europe's cable industry is now in a position to compete in the increasingly competitive pay TV market place according to the latest report from media analyst Screen Digest.
News categories: Screen Digest, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Private Equity, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Switzerland, UK

NXP Semiconductors Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results
Jul 22, 2008 – NXP has announced second quarter sales of USD 1,524 million, a comparable decrease of 1.9% on the second quarter of 2007 and a comparable decrease of 0.6% over the first quarter of 2008, reflecting the continuing softness of the overall market.
News categories: NXP, Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Eesti Telekom Reports 2nd Quarter and First Half 2008
Jul 18, 2008 – The number of Elion triple-package users increased by 4,200 in the quarter, reaching 62.8 thousand as of 30 June. By the end of the second quarter, Elion had 67.7 thousand IP and cable television clients (30 June 2007: 39.5 thousand).
News categories: Elion, Eesti Telekom, Broadband, Cable TV, Digital TV, Estonia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Televisa Second-quarter 2008 results
Jul 17, 2008 – Grupo Televisa (NYSE:TV; BMV:TLEVISA CPO) has announced results for second quarter 2008. As of June 30, 2008, the number of gross active Sky subscribers increased to 1,694,330, compared with 1,490,298 as of June 30, 2007.
News categories: Grupo Televisa, Cable TV, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Espial Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Kasenna
Jun 30, 2008 – Espial® Group (TSX: ESP) has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Espial will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Kasenna in exchange for an aggregate of 4,722,224 Espial common shares.
News categories: Espial, Kasenna, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, MandA, Middleware