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Elonics secures £2M ($4M) series A funding
Feb 13, 2008 – Elonics has announced that it has completed a series A funding round for £2M ($4M). Key investors include Braveheart Investment Group, Scottish Venture Fund and a number of private investors including Brian Souter and Sir Tom Farmer.
News categories: Elonics, Braveheart, Scottish Venture Fund, Digital TV, Mobile, Semiconductor, Venture Capital

Telenor Fourth quarter and preliminary results for 2007
Feb 13, 2008 – At the end of 2007 Canal Digital had 932,000 (2006: 943,000) DTH and 705,000 (2006: 696,000) cable-TV subscribers, with 1.174 million (2006: 1,155,000) SMATV households.
News categories: Telenor, Earnings Release, Q4 2007 Report, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

The DIRECTV Group Announces Fourth Quarter 2007 Results
Feb 13, 2008 – DIRECTV (NASDAQ:DTV) U.S. net subscriber additions of 275,000 were driven by strong gross additions and the lowest monthly churn rate in 8 years. DIRECTV Latin America net subscriber additions more than doubled to 199,000 due to higher gross additions and low monthly churn.
News categories: DIRECTV, Earnings Release, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Digital TV, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela

Qwest Reports Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2007 Results
Feb 12, 2008 – Qwest (NYSE: Q) added 44,000 net DIRECTV subscribers in the quarter to end the year with a total of 649,000 video subscribers, an increase of 58 percent in total video customers from the end of 2006.
News categories: Qwest, Earnings Release, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Maxcom Reports Results for Full-Year and Fourth Quarter of 2007
Feb 11, 2008 – Maxcom Telecomunicaciones, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: MXT) (BMV: MAXCOM CPO) has announced its unaudited financial and operating results for the full year ended December 31, 2007. Maxcom had around 6,000 IPTV subscribers at the end of 2007.
News categories: Maxcom, Digital TV, IPTV, Mexico, Results, Subscribers

Neuf Cegetel: double-digit organic growth in the fourth quarter
Feb 8, 2008 – Neuf Cegetel has reported its (unaudited) revenue figures for the fourth quarter. Neuf Cegetel had more than 750,000 TV subscribers at year-end 2007.
News categories: Neuf Cegetel, Earnings Release, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Kudelski Group to acquire EmbedICs, Inc.
Feb 8, 2008 – The Kudelski Group (SWX Swiss Exchange: KUD) has announced its agreement to acquire EmbedICs, Inc, a US-based embedded software, cryptography and fabless semiconductor design firm delivering state-of-the-art security solutions for the Digital TV market.
News categories: Kudelski, EmbedICs, Conditional Access, Content Protection, MandA, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Newport Media Announces Acquisition of Mobile TV Middleware Developer WRG
Feb 8, 2008 – Newport Media has announced the acquisition of industry leading DVB-T/H middleware company WRG Inc. Based in Bundang, Korea.
News categories: Newport Media, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Korea, MandA, Middleware, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor, Smart TV

Microtune Announces Fourth Quarter and Year 2007 Financial Information
Feb 7, 2008 – Microtune's (NASDAQ: TUNE) net revenue for the quarter ended December 31, 2007 grew by 37% to $22.8 million compared to the fourth quarter of 2006. Through December 31, 2007, Microtune has shipped a cumulative historical total of 81.4 million silicon TV tuner chips.
News categories: Microtune, Earnings Release, Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor