Qualcomm currently uses the licenses to support the service business of FLO TV Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and the sale follows Qualcomm's previously announced plan to evaluate strategic options for the FLO TV business.
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Headcount within the Home Entertainment and Sound Business Group, including the TV business group which has been implementing a series of ongoing profitability improvement measures, is expected to be reduced by approximately 20% by the end of October 2012 due to the transfer of employees outside the Company, together with a resource shift in personnel to other operations within the Sony Group.
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Like television itself, the business of TV advertising has had to learn to cope with audience fragmentation.
Hitachi CM, with flat-screen TV to make the results developed by Hitachi Consumer Electronics, for final assembly process to ensure that the consignment to the outside, we will build a stable business base for flat-panel TV business.
Whether products like the GameStick will cannibalize the traditional console business is an interesting question: with a developed TV-app ecosystem, this kind of plug-in smart stick might conversely challenge the Smart TV business, with a dedicated gamepad as a bonus.
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The company seems to be getting basics right by improving customer service and going forward, its pay-TV business success will depend upon how it enhances the user experience and gives the term TV Everywhere its true meaning.
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Meanwhile, O.tel.o's cable TV business (second, after Deutsche Telekom's CATV operation) is cash-flow positive.
Furthermore, Sony may actually have an opening in its struggling TV business according to Bloomberg.
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Qualcomm expects that the FLO TV business and network will be shut down in March 2011.
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It's a very poorly kept secret that Intel is looking to bust in the pay-TV business.
My speech focused on the 5 major trends that will disrupt the TV business.
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Or you may have seen me on any number of media outlets like Fox Business or Bloomberg TV.
The company reiterated that it will turn its TV business profitable by the fiscal year ending March 2014.
Cook also declined to go into detail about speculation on whether the company intends on entering the TV business.
In the UK, it will be the second biggest pay-TV business after BSkyB.
There is no way to know if this time will be a charm for Intel in the TV business.
Its newish pay-TV business, Mediaset Premium, which it built on the cheap to defend against Sky Italia, is losing money.
All of which means that the indices that come to us from the TV business shows are becoming obsolete now.
In a TV business that has lost money for eight consecutive years, that is 30 ways to spill red ink.
The firm's management has been trying to transform it from a publishing and TV business into a "brand management" company.
After reading the book, one of the things that is clear is that Apple will definitely get into the TV business.
By 2000 Murdoch was in charge of News Corp's Asian satellite business, Star TV, where he appeared to find his feet.
The Financial Times reported that Liberty plans a potential takeover of Virgin Media, creating the UK's second biggest pay-TV business after BSkyB.
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In the TV business, Splinter explains, very little capacity is being added.
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Reminds me of what happened to the TV business when flat panels when from a boom market to low single-digit percentage rate growth.
How does a smattering of 70-some career publications, including Minority Nurse and Graduating Engineer, jibe with its apparel catalogs and the TV business?
They may just need to ditch their TV business in the process, or find some new way to make that division profitable again.
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The potential move of both Ms. Couric and Mr. Lauer from their established perches comes at a time of flux for the TV business.
Rogge's predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch, was a diplomat and showman who created the modern Olympics as a business with big TV contracts and sponsors.
The company also had more U.S. subscribers for the HBO premium channels and saw growth internationally across the TV business, despite unfavorable currency-exchange rates.
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