By Jonathan Easton SonyLiv, the Indian OTT streaming platform owned by Sony Pictures Networks India, has entered into a strategic partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The streamer said that it has signed up TCS to  help create an innovative business model enabled by digital technologies, enhance customer experience, and...

By Stuart Thomson Telefónica has formed a partnership with TikTok to collaborate in a number of areas in Europe and Latin America, beginning with the launch of Living App TikTok Extra as part of Movistar+, the telco’s pay TV service in Spain. Movistar Fusión customers in over a million homes...

By Jonathan Easton TiVo has announced a long-term renewal of its patent license with Google. The agreement will see Google continue to have broad coverage under TiVo’s patent portfolios, and extends a relationship first established in 2012. TiVo, which became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xperi Holding Corporation in June 2020,...

AT&T lined up Messages by Google as the default messaging service for all its Android users, consolidating the app’s position as the dominant implementation of Rich Communication Service (RCS) for the smartphone platform in the US. In March, Google and T-Mobile US forged a partnership around the platform, meaning Verizon...

By James Blackman Qualcomm is teaming up with Capgemini to “unlock” private 5G for Industry 4.0, based on its new Release 16-capable 5G RAN platform and radio modem. Qualcomm and Capgemini will develop an off-the-shelf private network system, “tested and validated”, to provide clients a faster route to leverage 5G-geared...

By Jonathan Easton Sky and Channel 4 have announced a renewed and expanded commercial partnership. The deal will see Channel 4 brands and content continue to be offered to Sky customers, while the broadcaster’s catch-up service All 4 will be further integrated into Sky’s existing and future TV products. This...

By Ron Chen, Correspondent ASEAN Region UAE based Dulsco’s talent solution arm has formed a breakthrough partnership with Dynamic Advanced Training, the Middle East’s only accredited and independent Cabin Crew Training Organization (CCTO), to provide airlines with flexible cabin crew solutions. This initiative is also unique to the candidate as...

By Oystein Bergmann, Correspondent Scandinavia Google Cloud and Ericsson  has announced a partnership to jointly develop 5G and edge cloud solutions to help communications service providers (CSPs) digitally transform and to unlock new enterprise and consumer use cases. Globally, industries with edge presences - including communication service providers, retailers, manufacturers,...

By Emmanuel Oluebube, Correspondent UK GSMA has declared commercial readiness of the “GSMA eBusiness Network”, a new private-permissioned industry-wide blockchain network. The first suite of GSMA applications hosted on the network aims to transform the wholesale roaming clearing and settlement process. The network has the potential to support a wide...

By Ron Chen, Correspondent ASEAN Region Shanghai Disney Resort and DEI, one of the leading imaging services and solutions providers, today announced that the two parties had entered into a multi-year resort alliance, establishing DEI as the official imaging service sponsor of Shanghai Disney Resort. Under this new alliance, DEI...