Menlo Park, Calif. - MobiTV, a provider of mobile TV programming and distribution services, has received $5 million in equipment financing from Leader Ventures.

Los Angeles - Gemstar-TV Guide International (NASD: GMST), a provider of electronic program guides for digital TV services, said on Monday that it has signed a multi-year license agreement with MobiTV, a provider of mobile TV delivery services. Under the deal, both MobiTV itself and its partners who provide the service will be able to offer subscribers to interactive program guides for mobile video programming.

San Francisco - MobiTV, a provider of mobile audio and video services for cell phones, said on Monday that it has surpassed three million subscriptions for its services worldwide, having added a million new subscribers over the past six months. The company provides both branded and white-label services to more than 20 operators internationally. MobiTV also said it has appointed Charlie Nooney, the company's new CEO, to the additional role of chairman. Separately, MobiTV said that it has signed a multi-year deal to continue providing its services to U.S. wireless carrier Sprint.

New York - A&E Television Networks, a joint venture of The Hearst Corporation, ABC and NBC, announced on Monday the launch of two mobile TV channels -- A&E Mobile and The History Channel Mobile -- on the MobiTV service offered by several U.S. carriers. Separately, New York-based A&E said it has partnered with video advertising firm Visible World, to enable advertisers to dynamically customize and target TV ads in real-time across A&E Network and The History Channel. Advertisers will now be able to adjust campaigns based on changing market conditions, audience demographics, and the programming context in which their ads appear.

Emeryville, Calif. - MobiTV, a provider of mobile and broadband video and audio content, said on Monday that it has opened a both a new research and development center, in Stockholm, Sweden, and a new engineering facility in Sunnyvale, Calif. The R&D center will focus on WiMAX and other next-generation wireless networks, while the Sunnyvale center will hope to better attract engineering talent in Silicon Valley.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. - NBC Universal said on Thursday that it has partnered with mobile TV service provider MobiTV to offer live mobile TV coverage of the 2007 U.S. Open. NBC Sports Mobile will make a live feed of the golf tournament available to subscribers to MobiTV, which is offered in the U.S. by carriers including Sprint, Cingular and Alltel.

New York - Major record label Sony BMG announced on Thursday that it has partnered with mobile video and audio distributor MobiTV, and will add more than 2,500 music videos to the MobiTV service. The companies will also collaborate on customized channels that will feature original video, such as long-form concerts to genre and artist-driven shows and series, some of which will be fee-based. The first such site is Avril TV, which includes all music videos, and mobile versions of the Make 5 Wishes comic released along with Avril Lavigne's latest album. The ad-supported site is sponsored by CBS.

ROO Group Inc., a provider of online video solutions for content owners, advertisers and Web sites, today announced the appointment of Simon Bax, Stephen Palley, and Scott Ackerman to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. The additions increase the size of ROO's Board to six members, including four independent directors. The new board members join current members Robert Petty, Chairman and CEO, ROO Group; Robin Smyth, Executive Director, ROO Group and Doug Chertok, an independent director.
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Emeryville, Calif. - MobiTV, a provider of mobile and broadband television and music services, said on Tuesday that company co-founder Phillip Alvelda will step down as the company's CEO to focus on the Westminster Institute for Science Education (W.I.S.E.), an educational organization he co-founded last year.

Beijing - MobiTV, a provider of mobile TV and music delivery services, announced that it has partnered with Intel to optimize its service for use on Intel chip-powered laptops, Ultra Mobile Personal Computers and mobile devices. MobiTV and Intel also expect to work on next-generation platforms and services to personalize and improve the user experience.

Emeryville, Calif. - MobiTV, a provider of mobile TV delivery technology used by Sprint, AT&T, 3UK, Orange and others, announced on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with Yahoo, which will become the company's mobile advertising network partner.

San Antonio, Texas - AT&T on Thursday announced a new feature that allows subscribers to its U-verse digital TV service to view live TV on a PC. The U-verse OnTheGo service is powered by technology from MobiTV, and provides access to some 30 live channels -- including The Weather Channel and Bloomberg Television -- for an extra $10 per month. AT&T said it also plans to eventually offer U-verse OnTheGo via wireless devices, including mobile phones.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. - NBC Universal announced on Wednesday a deal with mobile TV delivery firm MobiTV, to make full-length, primetime, on-demand programming available over U.S. wireless networks for the first time.

Emeryville, Calif. - MobiTV, a provider of mobile and broadband TV and music services, announced on Wednesday that it has surpassed 2 million paying subscribers worldwide, more than doubling its base in under a year. The company offers over 100 channels of live TV and on-demand video for mobile phones worldwide, including 40 in the U.S. "After more than three years of delivering real live television and video on demand services commercially for millions of customers, on almost every type of mobile or broadband network, MobiTV has quickly become the industry's go-to resource for mobile content delivery," said Paul Scanlan, president and co-founder of MobiTV.

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Chad and Ryan Steelberg, brothers and founders of radio advertising company dMarc – now owned by Google – have stepped down a little more than one year after Google acquired it, the search giant confirmed on Friday. A Google spokesman declined to comment on those claims or discuss why the Steelbergs left. Google began testing its Audio Ads program for radio, using the dMarc technology, late last year.

Las Vegas - MobiTV, a provider of mobile TV delivery technology and programming, is demonstrating its unified multicast and unicast TV service for the WiMax standard this week at the Consumer Electronics Show. WiMax was developed to connect Wi-Fi hotspots, and serve as a wireless alternative to cable and DSL broadband. The company also announced a deal with Sprint, to power a mobile TV service for the wireless carrier's joint venture with a number of cable TV companies. Finally, MobiTV said it partnered with major record label Warner Music Group, to create branded mobile TV channels for Warner artists like Linkin Park and Red Hot Chili Peppers that offer both music videos and original video content.