This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. Not too long ago, TV Everywhere was a bold concept being evangelized by Time Warner…

With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies offering pay-TV have to look for more bells and whistles to keep fickle consumers interested in their services. The latest offerings in this area come from France…

Last week, Verizon announced a $3.6 billion deal to buy wireless spectrum from cable operators and resell their pay-TV services. This week, Lowell McAdam, Verizon’s CEO, started to lay out how that deal will impact other services operated and sold by the carrier: it looks like it will not continue…

Indie documentary video streaming service SnagFilms making good on some of the changes it proposed earlier this year, when it raised $10 million in funding: it’s officially expanding its 2,300 non-fiction film library to include dramatic, fictional independent features. The second change can be called the “Snag Everywhere” plan, which…

Counting on keeping up with Glee next season through next-day visits to Hulu.com or Fox.com? Count again—unless you subscribe through a video distributor with the right deal. *Fox* Networks is changing the window for online viewing: effective Aug. 15, there will be an 8-day exclusive window for those with subscriber…

Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) has made a cash bid of $1.375 billion for bankrupt telecom Terrestar Networks, Reuters reports, as it looks to fend off other competitors such as MetroPCS Communications. 

HBO’s best production this year may not be a program. I had a few doubts at times with the browser version but HBO Go as an app is everything Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes promised with TV Everywhere and then some. Premium programming that might start to look…

Charlie Ergen just added another kind of home entertainment business to satellite operator Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) (NSDQ: DISH, picking up Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) in a bankruptcy court auction with a bid worth about $320 million. (For fun with numbers, Ergen bought Sling Media in 2007 for $380 million). Whether…

News Corp.‘s BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) confirmed it has bought UK WiFi network The Cloud from its investor, DFJ Esprit, “to allow easy access to Sky content on multiple devices in and out of home”.

LightSquared must raise billions of dollars in order to build a nationwide wireless broadband network using satellites. But if it doesn’t act fast, it may miss critical deadlines laid out by the FCC and could lose its airwaves, according to the November issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine, which features a…

The biggest impediment to getting Hedge Fund Manager Philip Falcone’s wireless company getting off the ground is money, but he may be seeing some traction on that front. LightSquared has reportedly obtained a four-year loan worth $750 million from UBS AG, and separately, SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM), which has wanted…

Investors in the Harbinger’s hedge fund are increasingly uncomfortable with Philip Facone’s obsession with building a high-speed wireless broadband network. Falcone, who got rich by out-smarting the subprime housing bubble, has committed roughly $3 billion or 40 percent of the fund’s assets to LightSquared, making the telecom company the hedge…

Is the iPad a mobile device? The question is no longer just a philosophical one, rather, it is now an important business issue facing content owners and developers—thanks in large part to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), which has begun requiring that all applications work across the iPhone, iPod and iPad. This…

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)…

Reston, Vir.-based ICO Global Communications, which has been slowly working on building a satellite network for mobile devices, has appointed Ben Wolff as Chairman and CEO. He will join the board immediately, and will take the helm as CEO on Dec. 31. In a release, ICO said Michael Corkery will…

Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) is launching its WiMax service in the greater Seattle area tomorrow, putting it slightly ahead of its goal of reaching 30 million people by the end of the year, according to CEO Bill Morrow, who spoke to mocoNews ahead of the launch. It was exactly three years…

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) just might be ready to make a move on DirecTV (NYSE: DTV), the WSJ speculates, as the telco turns its concentration to video as its “core product.” Although Verizon made huge strides on rolling out its FiOS video and Internet service over the past three years—it’s gone…

Stiff competition in the wireless sector is hurting revenues, and therefore even the cable industry is growing at a faster clip, according to a research note by Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett. Barron’s reports that while wireless subscriber growth is up, revenue per subscriber is down, resulting in overall revenue growth…

The major TV networks, such as CBS (NYSE: CBS), NBC and ABC, say they’ll wait to turn off their analog signals until the new June 12 voluntary deadline, giving new meaning to the bill passed by Congress yesterday, reports Reuters. Yesterday, the U.S. House passed a bill from the Senate…