Vodafone is again toying with the idea of launching a video offering in the UK market as the telco seeks a defense strategy against the combined might of a merger between Virgin Media and O2. After reporting a year on year loss of 245,000 video subscribers across its footprint, Vodafone has floated the possibility of an OTT video platform for the UK market “which offers an opportunity around cord cutting”. One Equity Partners, part of banking behemoth JPMorgan Chase, has increased its shareholding in US digital security specialist Verimatrix from 25.49% to 29.04%, after buying out shares from private equity firm Jolt-Capital. It comes in the same week Verimatrix added Javascript obfuscation technologies from Portuguese fraud prevention expert Jscrambler to…