SyQic, fast growing provider of live TV and on-demand video content across mobile and internet enabled consumer devices, announced, on February 3, strategic moves into the Korean TV drama on-demand landscape. Firstly, SyQic rebranded Malaysia’s leading K-drama VOD platform “Maaduu” – which it acquired in August 2014 – to “cool2vu”. The new name shall help […]

The buying spree started last year, when Japanese ecommerce giant, Rakuten, founded by Hiroshi Mikitani in 1997, announced in September 2013, that it would acquire Viki for $200 million. Although Viki streams a wide diversity of foreign-language series, its strongest programming has been Korean dramas. The move came up as Rakuten are investing heavily in […]