The advanced adaptive streaming format has gained the support of IC vendors including Broadcom, MediaTek, and MStar, and has been selected to power video delivery for UK-based Dixons Retail's KNOWHOW Movies, German retailer Media Markt's Videodownloadshop, and Mei-Ah and China Mobile powered services that provides 4G LTE and 3G service subscribers instant access on their Android mobile devices to on-demand, catch-up TV.

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High-flying stocks on the Neuer Markt, Germany's version of Nasdaq, spawned two new billionaires this year--Thomas Haffa and Karl Schmidt.

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Frankfurt's Neuer Markt exchange, which has had some success in bringing young companies to the market, and in attracting new equity investors, has done so by ditching traditional rules.

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Germany's Neuer Markt closed last year.

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Germany's defunct Neuer Markt also had continental aims before it imploded (see article).

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Indeed, by providing a reality check, the recent troubles of the Neuer Markt might even do Germany's equity culture some good.

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This March Mobilcom, a telecommunications company backed by 3i and the venture-capital subsidiary of Commerzbank, among others, became the first firm to list on Germany's new small-company stock exchange, the Neuer Markt.

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