3Com's stock jumped despite a report that 3Com and Germany's Siemens have given up plans to form a joint venture making gear to handle voice calls on data- and video-telecom networks, according to the Handelsblatt newspaper.
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The big focus for cable companies, she notes, will be Average Revenue Per Unit, a metric the companies will try to increase by selling customers additional services, such as data, telecom and video on demand.
You might know him for his work over the last five years covering the media, telecom, online video, and — as he made his way from New York to San Francisco with GigaOM — startups.
Vodafone's reported interest in Virgin Media owner Liberty Global is the latest potential deal that could reshape the UK's pay-TV, video on demand and telecoms sectors.
StarLeaf, which was founded by three telecoms and video conferencing entrepreneurs who together previously founded and sold three other networking companies (Madge Networks, Calista and Codian), started selling cloud services to customers in 2013 — and says usage of its platform is now doubling year over year.
It also kept its video backhaul business and its telecom equipment business.
Although for many mainstream consumers, the name "Nielsen" is synonymous with TV ratings, the company actually provides analytics across a wide number of industries, including telecom, radio, music, video games, online, consumer and packaged goods, and more.
"This year, we have broadened the categories to reflect the changing Web 2.0 landscape: Auctions, Blogs, Automotive, Communities, Entertainment, Finance, Fun & Games, Health, ISP's, Jobs, Navigation, News, Portals, Search engines, Shopping, Sports, Telecom, Travel, TV & Radio, Video-sharing". said Frans-Anton van Gils of MetrixLab .
Now going after eyeballs: spent $150 million buying Home Shopping Network's video storage and delivery company and telecom software outfit Precision Systems.
