David Kaplan
Apr 11, 2011 5:48 PM
Online video services provider KIT Digital is paying $91.4 million for 100 percent of the stock in cloud-based content manager ioko365. This is KIT’s fifth acquisition this year and given that’s been on a fairly constant shopping spree for the last two years, it’s probably not the last.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 16, 2011 4:02 PM
KIT Digital‘s long (and expensive) shopping spree continues: The online video services provider is paying $34.4 million to purchase Polymedia from Italian owner TXT e-solutions. KIT Digital says Polymedia counts major European telecom operators and media firms including Telecom Italia, Sky Germany, and Ericcson among its customers.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 31, 2011 8:00 AM
Online video services provider KIT Digital is continuing to roll-up other firms in its market. The Prague, Czech Republic-based company is paying $77.2 million to purchase three companies, KickApps, Kewego and Kyte, in moves it says will help it become a “one-stop shop” for corporations’ video needs.
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David Kaplan
May 17, 2010 10:05 AM
Online video services provider KIT Digital has acquired Benchmark Broadcast Systems for $9.5 million. This is the Prague, Czech Republic-based company’s second acquisition within the past two months. In March, it bought rival video player Multicast, which was its sixth purchase within the last few years. Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, KIT…
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Rafat Ali
Mar 15, 2010 7:59 AM
The slow-burn consolidation and shakeout of the online video services space continues. KIT Digital, the online video tools player now based in Prague, Czech Republic (it jumped from NYC to Dubai to now Prague in last 2-3 years), has done another acquisition, its sixth in recent years: it has bought…
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Rafat Ali
Oct 5, 2009 1:10 PM
TheFeedRoom, the grandaddy of online video and streaming services companies, has been acquired by international video tech provider KIT Digital, for about $10 million, all in stock. FeedRoom has been around since 1999, and has raised at least $61 million since launching. Also, KIT is announcing another acquisition: German video…
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Rafat Ali
Oct 7, 2008 11:28 AM
KIT Digital, the online video provider formerly known as Roo, has acquired privately-held Visual Connection, a Czech Republic-based digital media and IPTV solutions provider in Europe and the Middle East markets. The deal price: $2.5 million, paid in cash and another $7.5 million in KIT digital common shares or cash…
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