Roku has announced it has received $45 million in a new strategic investment from News Corporation, BSkyB, prior Roku venture investors Menlo Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners as well as an unnamed strategic investor. The new relationships include both financial backing and business agreements.The investment will be used to build further brand awareness through advertising,… Continue reading Roku Raises $45 Million from News Corporation, BSkyB and Others

UKTV, the independent television network co-owned by BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks International, has signed a major deal with TalkTalk to carry all of its branded channels and selected video-on-demand programmes on TalkTalk’s YouView platform.TalkTalk subscribers will have access to all of UKTV’s pay TV channels via the TalkTalk Player, joining Sky and Virgin which… Continue reading UKTV signs major deal with TalkTalk’s new YouView service

The Consumer Electronics Market in Great Britain fell by -5.6% in value comparing June 2012 with June 2011, claims GfK Retail and Technology UK. Whilst this is disappointing, the year on year value fall is -14%, so this small drop can be seen as a considerable lessening of decline.This uplift in the Total CE market was… Continue reading Consumer electronics market still falling

Facebook has announced that 8.7% of its 955m global users are duplicate accounts. A large proportion of those being pages created for pets and those designed for spam.In March, when Facebook last gave an estimate of the number of fake or duplicate accounts, it said the proportion was in the region of 5% or 6%,… Continue reading Facebook admits 83 million profiles are fake

As GB’s athletes triumphed, viewers couldn’t get enough of the Olympics on BBC One. Once again, the Olympics dominated TV viewing figures throughout the day with a peak audience of 9.2 million at 9pm (38.7% of the audience share).The News at Six signaled a one hour break on BBC One as 5.6 million switched over… Continue reading TV Overnights: GB’s gold rush draws in the viewers

The video games industry across the USA and Western Europe will witness steady growth through to 2015, reaching $15.7 billion and €10.2 billion respectively in total retail value, according to a new Console, Handheld and PC Gaming report from Futuresource Consulting.Across both regions, the packaged games market will start to witness a slow decline in… Continue reading Video Games Industry Driven by Online as Digital Delivery Comes to the Fore

Spending on mobile internet advertising in the US will top all other countries in the world for the first time this year, helping drive mobile ad spending worldwide to $6.43 billion in 2012, show figures released by eMarketer.

In an attempt to boost readers, Time Out London is to become a free magazine. Cutting its price from £3.25 it hopes to increase circulation from 55,000 to a targeted 300,000 a week.Time Out will join a group of magazines and newspapers which have already taken similar steps to rejuvenate the industry. To make up… Continue reading Time Out to become a free London magazine

BT have today announced that it has successfully met its goal to launch half a million Wi-Fi hotspots in time for the London 2012 games, with almost 200,000 places to log-on being added in the last three months.The hotspots give Londoners, visitors, commercial and private river users access to more than one hundred places to… Continue reading BT hits 500,000 London Wi-Fi hotspots

A day after Sky announced Now TV’s launch on Apple iPad and iPhone, Amazon has responded by following in its footsteps. Amazon Instant is now available to download on iTunes for iPad.By logging in with an Amazon username and password, users are able to purchase any movie or TV show from over 120,000 in the… Continue reading Amazon Instant launches on iPad to challenge Now TV