Big news for mobile TV pioneer MobiTV: the company has filed for an IPO worth up to $75 million, as it looks for funds to expand internationally, develop its products and potentially size up acquisitions.

At Mobile World Congress last week I had a chance to catch up with Charlie Nooney, the CEO of MobiTV, to talk about some of the fails we’ve seen in mobile TV services, why he thinks white-label services are the way forward, and how tablets can catapult mobile TV players…

Is there life after News Corp.? (NSDQ: NWS) Bitbop, part of the Fox Mobile division that was recently sold to the Jesta Group, believes there will be: the premium video aggregator today announced a new version of its service optimized for LTE networks, which it will launch as a preloaded…

—T-Mobile, the fourth largest mobile operator in the U.S., will not be left behind in the CES 4G cavalcade. It may still be holding off from LTE in the U.S. (not so for its parent in Germany), but it will nevertheless upgrade its “4G” HSPA network. The top speed will…

A two-year-old court case ended this week that will most likely set a precedent in the mobile industry for how much streaming music and video services will have to pay artists in royalties. The case was being heard between MobiTV and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)…

MobiTV has fixed a digital rights management issue that was prohibiting it from offering users the ability to store content on their phone and then play it offline or on other devices. In doing so, MobiTV says there’s now a host of new business models to offer consumers, including subscriptions,…

CBSSports.com College Network is rolling out a set of new iPhone and iTouch apps that give college sports fans live audio and on-demand video clips from USC, North Carolina, Oklahoma State and others. The plan is to eventually offer apps from over 60 schools; the first six are launching today.…

Earlier this year, *CBS* Sports tested the mobile live video market with a $4.99 iPhone/iTouch app for March Madness, streaming all 63 games of the famed men’s college basketball tourney. It must have gone well, despite being limited to Wi-Fi access. CBS (NYSE: CBS) won’t release download stats but it…

MobiTV scored with the app it developed with CBS (NYSE: CBS) Sports to bring live-streamed NCAA March Madness games to the iPhone, and now it’s trying again—this time, partnering with NBC Sports to launch the Notre Dame Central app. Notre Dame football fans will get eight live games, as well…

MobiTV is reporting that it just surpassed 5 million subscribers and it took just less than four months for the company to bring the last million on board. Growth slowed somewhat when the company sought to climb from three to four million subscribers earlier this year, but the most recent…

Although the company has been hinting at this achievement since April, MobiTV is now officially saying it has four million subscribers. Despite the new heights reached by the Emeryville, CA-based company, its growth seems to be slowing somewhat. It reached three million subscribers last October, but took another 10 months…

NBC Sports today announced its biggest mobile endeavor yet—NBC 2Go, a mobile TV station on Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFLO service and MobiTV service. NBC provided a bit more context to what it plans to provide on the station, which is at least running live on the AT&T (NYSE: T) network.…

Streaming TV provider MobiTV has received $5 million in funding from Leader Ventures, in addition to the $125 million it raised from VC firms Gefinor Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Venutres, Oak Investment Partners and strategic investors Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) and Hearst Corp, reports VentureBeat. MobiTV plans to use the…

MobiTV, the mobile video provider, released key information on the demographics and habits of mobile TV watchers in the U.S., saying that its viewers collectively love TV, are highly mobile, are early adopters, are more likely male and between the ages of 18 and 39. Of course, this is the…