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Apple and Fandango Will Soon Let You Buy Movie Tickets in Mobile Chat (The Wrap)
Have you ever been chatting online with a friend — or group of friends — deciding which movie you all are going to watch that weekend? Well, Fandango and Apple have teamed up t... More
E3: Microsoft Adds 4K, HDR to Xbox One
Microsoft unveiled a new, slimmer version of its Xbox One console that adds Ultra High-Def (UHD) 4K movie viewing capability and high dynamic range (HDR), while also disclosing tha... More
Fox Sports, NextVR Take a Bigger Swing at US Open (Multichannel News)
Taking another swing at live virtual reality production, Fox Sports (via its Fox Sports Lab unit) is teaming up with NextVR for a VR offering from this week’s U.S. Open Champions... More
Perpetually on the Hunt for Young Men, Brands are Betting on eSports (Digiday)
The interest from brands has been so great this year that talent agency WME IMG recently hired two more salespeople to service the accounts. “Of the top 10 advertisers globally, ... More
Will Gamers ‘Like’ Facebook’s New Streaming Service Enough To Switch From Twitch And YouTube? (IBT)
Moving to become a big player in gaming, Facebook announced a partnership Monday with Blizzard to let players of games like "Warcraft" and "Hearthstone" stream their sword-wielding... More
Snapchat User Base to Surpass Twitter, Pinterest in U.S. This Year – Study (Variety)
Snapchat is on pace to grow the number of U.S. active users a blistering 27% this year, to hit 58.6 million — topping Twitter and Pinterest for the first time, according to resea... More
Game, Set, Match: Wimbledon Inks a Three-Year Deal with Snapchat (Digiday)
Wimbledon has a long, proud history as the home of British tennis. It is also, to be fair, a bit stuffy. Enter Snapchat, naturally. The tournament, which kicks off June 27, has ink... More
Tata, Formula One Launch VR Connectivity Innovation Prize (Rapid TV News)
The company is the the official connectivity provider to Formula One, and the official managed connectivity supplier of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team and the aim of th... More
First Movie Filmed on Snapchat Debuts on Vimeo (Variety)
“Sickhouse,” a horror movie starring digital celeb Andrea Russett based on 10-second video snippets posted to Snapchat, is now available for purchase — another test of whethe... More
Spotify Has a Plan to Start Actually Making Money (Fortune)
Those 30 million paid subscribers help it rake in almost half the revenues in the global industry. But most of the money goes to record labels and artists, while the privately owne... More
Weta Workshop Expands Aspera Deployment to Handle Large 3D, Video File Transfers for Concept Design and Practical Effects (MESA)
IBM today announced that Weta Workshop, the award-winning concept design and manufacturing arm of the Wellington-based Weta Group of Companies, has upgraded and expanded its implem... More
Three Million People Now Use Slack Every Day (Recode)
Slack now boasts three million daily active users, up from two million as recently as December. The number of paid seats — users whose companies are at the paid level of service ... More
Brands Want To Predict Your Behavior By Mining Your Face From YouTube Videos (Motherboard)
Technologies like predictive video seem to have recently caused advertisers to flock to video platforms, enabling them to mine previously-unattainable forms of human behavioral dat... More
Fox Futurist: VR’s Time Has Finally Arrived (B&C)
Ted Schilowitz was all set to deliver a presentation on virtual reality here May 25, but when he first took the stage, he did something odd — and hilarious — instead. The techn... More
For the VR Generation, the Differences Between TV and Movies may Already be Irrelevant (LA Times)
As questions of blurring arise between film and TV, it's worth asking how specific creators and companies are dealing with these changes. But it also pays to take a broader look. F... More
Verizon CEO: There’s ‘Pent-Up Demand’ for VR
There’s “pent-up demand” around virtual reality (VR), Verizon Communications CEO Lowell McAdam said during a May 24 keynote presentation at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology,... More
Netflix Hack Day Results Include Private Listening, Personalizable Home Page (Variety)
Earlier this month, Netflix engineers and designers came together in the company’s cafeteria in Los Gatos, California to spend a day of tinkering and hacking in order to try new ... More
VR Expected to Have a Strong Presence at E3
Virtual reality (VR) is expected to be among the main stories on both the hardware and software fronts at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) June 14-16 in Los Angeles, v... More
Hollywood Rushes to VidCon to Connect With Millennials (NY Times)
In many ways, VidCon is a younger version of Comic-Con International, the pop culture bacchanal attended by more than 130,000 people each summer in San Diego. Comic-Con has long be... More
Voice Tech, Long in Development, Is Coming Together All at Once (Billboard)
It's the cynical view of the American dream: the ability to control everything in a home without ever getting up from the recliner -- or even, God forbid, lifting a finger. This is... More