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Living
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Pay TV firm AVG appoints new CEO

Vu Minh Tri, former CEO of Microsoft Vietnam, is the new CEO of pay TV firm AVG. Tri, 49, replaces Mai Duy Long, also 49, who helmed AVG for nearly two years. Tri, who became the CEO of Sony Ericsson Vietnam in 2006, has since taking top positions in the…

SK Broadband
Telecom
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SK Broadband agrees to merge with t-broad

South Korea’s SK Telecom has arranged to merge its fixed broadband subsidiary SK Broadband with the nation’s second largest cable TV operator t-broad to help both companies weather rapid changes in the pay TV market. Under the proposed merger, which still…

paytv
Living
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Ericsson, Google partner on pay TV

Ericsson and Google are partnering to extend the reach of the Ericsson cloud-based MediaFirst TV Platform into the Android TV ecosystem, Google’s operating system for the set-top-box. Ericsson MediaFirst is a software-defined, media-optimized end-to-end…

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Living
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APAC pay TV faces slowing growth

The Asia-Pacific pay-TV industry is expected to grow at a 5.8% average annual rate from 2016 to 2021, according to Media Partners Asia (MPA). MPA projects pay-TV industry sales across 18 major markets in Asia Pacific to climb from $54 billion in 2016 to $72…

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Living
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Indonesia Wants Netflix to Open Office, Pay Tax

If Netflix wants to obtain a but, the company must obey local regulations, such as opening an office and hiring employees. Furthermore, it must also obey tax regulations, which means every transaction with Netflix in Indonesia will be taxed. According to…