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Caavo’s over-the-top TV box for over-the-top TV boxes ships February 14
The streaming box that aims to bring sanity to your streaming world by combining all your streaming hardware sources into one will ship on Valentine’s Day next year, according to The Verge. Caavo offers a solution to a very modern problem – making it easy to switch between devices including your DVR, your Roku, your Apple TV, your PS4 and other devices seamlessly, using one remote… Read More
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The streaming box that aims to bring sanity to your streaming world by combining all your streaming hardware sources into one will ship on Valentine’s Day next year, according to The Verge. Caavo offers a solution to a very modern problem – making it easy to switch between devices including your DVR, your Roku, your Apple TV, your PS4 and other devices seamlessly, using one remote… Read More
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Roku’s big strategy change paid off
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Roku stocks are soaring after the company nailed its first earnings report since going public earlier this fall.
While the set-top box maker is not quite profitable, it managed to post a smaller loss ($7.9 million) than Wall Street had expected ($12.7 million) thanks to especially strong revenue growth in ads and licensing its software. The company’s overall revenue grew to $125 million from $89 million in the same quarter last year.
The successful quarter follows a smooth initial public offering in September in which the decade-old company bucked an otherwise dismal market for tech public offerings. It also proved itself to be holding its own against big-name competitors in the space like Apple TV, Google Chromecast, and Amazon’s Fire TV. Read more…
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Roku, the digital streaming business, had a huge first earnings report, greatly surpassing analyst expectations.
The company quickly surged over 26% in initial after-hours trading.
Roku reported $124.8 million in net revenue for its third quarter, compared to $110 million in analyst estimates. Losses were $7.9 million, lower than the $12.7 million analysts expected.
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