On Wednesday, the chief executive of Siano Mobile Silicon Ltd., an Israel-based maker of TV chips for mobile devices, spoke with Bloomberg about his company’s burgeoning opportunities in the United States.

Siano, it seems, is moving toward an initial public offering sometime next year. The prominent manufacturer of chips that allow mobile devices to receive digital TV signals has CEO Alon Ironi giving ample consideration to the potential of mobile television – an industry the company head believes is in need of an image makeover.

“We need to see the creation of a positive perception of the mobile-TV market in the eyes of the financial community,” Ironi tells Bloomberg. “It’s almost a condition for going public. Right now, if you talk to an average analyst, all they know about mobile TV is it failed.”

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On Monday, GoodMorningAmerica.com‘s launch on Yahoo began offering audiences new ways to continue the conversation before, during and after the broadcast on an around-the-clock basis.

Yahoo! and ABC News are embarking on a strategic new alliance that will enhance and transform the delivery of news and information across the digital landscape.

As a result of the deal, ABC News will be the premier news provider on Yahoo! News.

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Another prominent name in mobile technology has plans to go public.

MobiTV, the popular platform that enables smartphone users to watch live television, filed to raise upwards of $75 million in an initial public offering of stock, according to a Bloomberg report late Wednesday.

The company’s filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, however, did not reveal how many shares MobTV is planning to offer. Although MobiTV plans to trade under the symbol MBTV, it has not yet been revealed which exchange the shares would be listed on.

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Mobile Digital Television is expanding at an exponential rate and will likely reach two-thirds of U.S. households by early 2012.

According to the Open Mobile Video Coalition of America’s (OMVC) broadcasters, myriad TV broadcast stations are presently working overtime to install new transmission equipment that will allow live, local TV signals to reach viewers wherever they go in a local market.

The estimates come from a new survey of member plans spearheaded by the OMVC, which says that 96 stations are already on-the-air with Mobile DTV.

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An exciting new venture in the world of mobile television has been undertaken by U.S. Cellular and MobiTV.

Delivering on what the partners call “the increasing demand for mobile media services,” U.S. Cellular has launched U.S. Cellular Mobile TV, powered by MobiTV.

U.S. Cellular Mobile TV is a downloadable application that features live TV, video-on-demand programming and the option to download content for offline viewing.

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Premium cable television giant HBO is on brag-watch. The iconic name in home entertainment says its recently released HBO Go app has reached three million downloads.

HBO Go enables HBO subscribers to view more than 1,400 programs on demand via their Apple iPad tablets, iPhones, and Android devices, assuming their cable providers support the app.

HBO Go saw 1 million downloads in its first week of availability alone.

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The relevant video advertising technology specialists at YuMe have announced the expansion of YuMe into Europe with the launch of the aptly named “YuMe Europe.”

Helping with the growth and transition into new territory will be the tools and resources that come from YuMe’s acquisition this week of Appealing Media, a mobile video advertising company with such hefty clients as ESPN, IPC Media, Bauer Media, and Universal McCann.

Appealing Media already has a compelling platform and established presence in the United Kingdom, something the team at YuMe is particularly excited about.

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