Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2009-2013

Over the next five years, global spending on E&M is projected to rise at from $1.4 trillion in 2008 to $1.6 trillion in 2013, growing at a compound annual rate of 2.7 percent.

M&A activity in the global technology sector during 2008

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) in the global technology sector remained remarkably active in 2008 despite the ‘credit crunch’, depressed stock markets and gathering economic gloom. Although global volumes declined by 20% to 570 deal completions in 2008 from the post bubble peak of 713 in 2007, overall transaction activity across the year was remarkably similar to 2006 levels. On the value front a fall-off in b1 billion-plus deals took the aggregate value of technology deals down by 26% to b93.2 billion in 2008.

2008 Global Wireless Industry Survey

The report is based on analysis of a survey of wireless carriers in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America. According to PwC, large carriers’ revenue management spending is mainly dedicated to minimizing leakage within core billing of primary service networks. The report highlights the urgency for carriers to re-examine existing revenue management strategies across all customer and content partner touch-points.