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Telenor Second Quarter 2007: Continued good performance
Jul 24, 2007 – Revenues in the Canal Digital Group increased primarily due to higher number of subscribers and higher number of additional services. Revenues and EBITDA in Transmission & Encryption increased due to higher sales of pay TV conditional access cards.
News categories: Telenor, 2Q07 Report, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

STMicroelectronics Reports 2007 Second Quarter/First Half Revenues and Earnings
Jul 24, 2007 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) reported financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2007. Application Specific Product Groups net revenue increased 6.8% driven by double-digit sales growth in wireless and digital consumer.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor

Telecom Italia Media Preliminary Results as of June 30, 2007
Jul 23, 2007 – The Board of Directors of Telecom Italia Media (BIT:TME.MI) examined and approved the preliminary results as of June 30, 2007. Digital terrestrial TV revenues for the first half of 2007 more than doubled.
News categories: Telecom Italia Media, Press Release, Digital TV, Italy, Mobile, Results, Terrestrial

Zoran Reports Second Quarter 2007 Revenues of $129.9 Million
Jul 23, 2007 – Zoran Corporation (Nasdaq GS: ZRAN) has reported results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2007. Revenues by product line for the second quarter of 2007 were 30 percent DVD, 13 percent DTV, and 57 percent other.
News categories: Zoran, Earnings Release, ATSC 3, Digital TV, DVD, Results, Semiconductor

Com Hem obtained 50,000 new customers and raised net sales by 14 per cent to SEK 869 million in Q2 2007
Jul 23, 2007 – The number of broadband customers rose in Q2 2007 by 16,000 to 447,000, the number of digital TV customers by 13,000 to 356,000 and the number of telephony customers by 21,000 to 223,000.
News categories: Com Hem, Earnings Release, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Broadcom Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Jul 19, 2007 – Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) has reported unaudited financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2007.
News categories: Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor

TEO revenues grew by 4.6 per cent in first half 2007
Jul 19, 2007 – January-June 2007 the total number of main telephone lines in service increased by 2.8 thousand to 788 thousand, broadband Internet access users increased by almost 32 thousand to 212.6 thousand, while the number of IPTV users exceeded 11 thousand.
News categories: TEO LT, Digital TV, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers

Sogecable Consolidated Results as of June 30th 2007
Jul 17, 2007 – As of June 30th 2007, DIGITAL+'s customer base reached 2,056,000 clients, representing a net growth of 66,000 subscribers in a year.
News categories: Sogecable, Full Release, Digital TV, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

Valens Semiconductor Raises $7M in Series A Financing
Jul 16, 2007 – Valens Semiconductor Ltd., a developer of a chip that will enable high quality transmission of audio and video in a home networking environment, has announced the completion of a $7M series A round of equity financing.
News categories: Digital TV, Israel, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Venture Capital