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Twitter is Said to Be in Continued Talks With Salesforce (New York Times)

Over the last week, Twitter’s fate has appeared to be murkier than ever. The troubled social media company, which has been engaged in talks to sell itself, seemed to be running o... More

Google Acquires FameBit to Better Connect YouTube Creators with Brands (VentureBeat)

Google announced on Tuesday that it has acquired FameBit with plans to leverage its technology platform to help its YouTube creators better connect with brands. “We believe that ... More

Dolby Narrate for iOS Lets You Add Voiceover to Video (CIO)

Narrate is free, and it's an easy-to-use app with the sole purpose of adding voiceover narration to video. Endless ways exist to use it for fun. For example, you can use filters th... More

Coming Soon: Video Games As The Next Multi-Billion Dollar Sport (ARC)

Online video streaming channels on You Tube Red and Amazon’s Twitch provide the venue for eSports tournaments. ESPN broadcasts eSports alongside its traditional sports offerings.... More

AI, Advertising’s Next Big Step In Personalizing Branded Videos (MediaPost)

Artificial intelligence software remains the foundation of most services and products that advertisers will see this year. While search became the first to demonstrate the power of... More

Facebook’s Oculus Working on Stand-Alone Virtual-Reality Device (Wall Street Journal)

Oculus revealed Thursday that it is working on a new lower-end headset that wouldn’t need to be tethered to a personal computer, like the Rift, or a mobile phone. It also unveile... More

IBM Cloud Video: Roland’s Live Music Event Shows How B2B is Blending with B2C (Videonet)

Most attendees walking the IBC 2016 exhibition floor on its opening day were probably unaware that a global, 24-hour music festival was underway at around the same time. That’s b... More

Google Touts AI, VR in Pixel Smartphone, View Headset

Artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) are prominent features in the Pixel smartphones that Google unveiled during a news briefing in San Francisco Oct. 4. The Pi... More

How the Slack App Ecosystem is Helping Chatbot Developers (VentureBeat)

It’s good to be part of the Slack ecosystem. Our bot MailClark is among 600 third-party apps that work on Slack. I like to say we get all the benefits of a flea on the back of an... More

Apple TV Gets First Ticketing App With Launch of StubHub (Variety)

Users of the fourth-generation Apple TV can now purchase tickets to thousands of concerts and sporting events available on StubHub, marking the launch of the first ticketing servic... More

Fox Innovation Lab Is Sponsoring MIT VR/AR Hackathon (Variety)

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is holding a hackathon for virtual and augmented reality in Cambridge, Mass. this week that counts 20th Century Fox’s Innovation Lab amo... More

Chinese Billionaire Wang Jianlin Makes Aggressive Moves in Hollywood (LA Times)

China’s economic miracle during the past four decades has been defined by its manufacturing prowess. But to become a true global power worthy of cultural influence, it needs ente... More

Legendary is Branching Out with a Subscription App (Digiday)

Legendary Entertainment, the movie studio behind big films like Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy and “Jurassic World,” is getting into the subscription streaming... More

Media Likes Twitter but Tech May Pay More (WSJ)

Twitter is an advertising company, so firms from both sectors could make a strategic case for buying it. But even a tech company without an ad business, such as prospective bidder ... More

Salesforce Adds Einstein AI to Commerce Cloud (Light Reading)

Salesforce has put its own mark on Demandware's e-commerce cloud service, adding support for the Einstein AI and Apple Pay, and rebranding the service as Commerce Cloud. The servic... More

Snapchat, Known for Ephemera, Proves Its Staying Power With Videos (NYT)

The Summer Olympics was something of a coming-out party for Snapchat, the mobile storytelling and messaging app. Nearly 35 million users in the United States watched highlights and... More

Snapchat Debuts Spectacles that Record Video (MediaPost)

Bounding into hardware and physical fashion, Snapchat just unveiled Spectacles -- stylish video-recording sunglasses that are expected to retail for $130. Set to hit shelves later ... More

Disney Is Working With an Adviser on Potential Twitter Bid (Bloomberg)

The Walt Disney Co. is working with a financial adviser to evaluate a possible bid for Twitter Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. After receiving interest in discu... More

Deluxe VR Showcases Imagination at Work in Interactive GE Store VR Experience (MESA)

GE and Deluxe VR teamed to illustrate how GE’s various businesses cross-pollinate a vast knowledge base to develop new solutions in an interactive GE Store virtual reality (VR) e... More

Real-World Teams March Further Into eSports (GamesIndustry)

The Philadelphia 76ers has acquired controlling stakes in two prominent eSports teams, making it the first North American sports franchise to enter the space through a buyout. Comm... More

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