Five years ago this week… MediaKind was born as Ericsson continued its retreat from media, if somewhat half-heartedly, selling an initial 51% of its Media Solutions business – including Mediaroom/MediaFirst – to One Equity Partners. In true VC style, Ericsson was only selling half for a small amount at the time in hope that a performance-related upside to buy the rest of the company would raise the price to something more reasonable. No money was mentioned, but Media Solutions had taken around $380 million in 2017, and was likely loss-making. — US-breaking news from Accedo sees the Swedish app developer add support for smart TV maker Vizio – to springboard Accedo clients’ video streaming apps onto Vizio SmartCast TVs. Hallmark Movies Now has already…