Tele Columbus now reaches 3.6 millionhouseholds. The growth, which is due to takeovers, helps cement thecompany's position as the country's third-largest cable network operator,behind Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom, Handelsblatt reports.The acquisitions of Primacom and Pepcom pushed sales to €278.7 million comparedwith €213.1 million a year earlier. * Germany's TeleColumbus reported sales and operating profit which grewsignificantly in 2015. In 2015, Germany's ANGA association of cable network operators saidits members should aim to stop using analog TV by the end of 2018. Ahead of the phase out, the company will reduce its analog offering atthe end of April by removing the shopping channels sonnenklar.TV, Channel 21and Juwelo. * Unitymedia will completely stop offering analog TV inGermany in 2017, Dwdl reports.According to Unitymedia 82% of its customers in the country are already usingdigital. Spanish and Latin Americanoperations will not be taken over by RTL but will continue to licensesmartclip's technology. The deal includes smartclip's operations inGermany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Italy. * Broadcaster RTLGroup spent €46.9 million to buying a 93.75% stake in online videomarketer smartclip, Dwdl reports.Smartclip, which launched in 2008, bundles the online video offerings of over700 publishers and manages the delivery of video advertising to smartphones andother devices with Internet access. Thepocket-sized BBC micro:bit can be programmed to create simple games, smartwatches and fitness trackers, among others. Some additional units are also included for teachers' use. rolled out up to 1 million units of its BBC micro:bitcomputer to students across the U.K., the British public broadcaster said in a statement.The computers will be delivered to schools and distributed to year 7 studentsin England and Wales, year 8 students in Northern Ireland and S1 students inScotland. DixonsCarphone is the merged entity of Dixons Retail plc and. Deal completion is expected by the end of March. The deal also includes the Voltz energy switching tool, anapp-based market tracker that allows customers to switch energy providers viatheir mobile devices. *London-based consumer electronics retailer Dixons Carphone agreedto acquire British multichannel switching platform Simplifydigital for anundisclosed sum. *Sky group CFO and Managing Director for Commercial Businesses Andrew Griffithwill take on the added role of COO, Telecompaper reports.Griffith has served as an executive director and CFO of the company since 2008. homeowners does not make fixed line calls but still pays landline rentalfees, according to the report. to a Parliament meeting to discuss pricing concerns, The Daily Telegraph (London) reports.Vaizey will reportedly push for an overhaul of bundled offers to preventoperators from charging customers for services they do not use. * British Culture Minister Ed Vaizey issummoning BritishTelecom, Skyplc, TalkTalk TelecomGroup PLC and LibertyGlobal plc's VirginMedia Inc. Numericable-SFR hadchallenged the decision. The competition regulator considered that themerger of Numericable and SFR in 2014 ended the exception. Internet service providersOrange, and were effectivelyexcluded from access due to prohibitive fees, Le Figaro reports,quoting an undisclosed source. At the time of the acquisition of TPS b圜anal Plus SA, thecompetition regulator chose to protect cable by allowing access to 40 channelsdistributed exclusively by CanalSatellite. It will nowbe subject to the same regime as other Internet service providers for thebroadcast of CanalSatellite. * France's highest administrative court Conseil d'État ruledthat Numericable–SFRis no longer entitled to the special inherited exception on cable. Spotify also uses discounted subscription price campaigns to attractmore users. now has30 million subscribers, company founder and CEO Daniel Ek revealed in a tweet.The company is generating about $10 from each paying customer per month, withvariations depending on the country, Di Digital reports.Subscriptions are generating hundreds of millions of dollars per month inrevenue.
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