Swedish TV app aficionado Accedo has dipped into the M&A honey pot, picking out a niche company called Hibox, which features just below a US workspace software company of the same name in search engine results. Hibox, the Finnish one, has developed a middleware platform called Aura for OTT and IPTV experiences. Accedo has clearly set its sights on the TV metadata market here to complement its front-end UX expertise – slurping up valuable information on linear TV, VoD, catch-up, recordings, EPG, and channel packages. Hibox handles this metadata to manage subscribers, content, and devices, while integrating with billing systems, interactive services, and other third-party systems. But what does it mean for TV metadata partners connected with the Accedo One…