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OOONA Debuts Directory for AV Translation Professionals

Localization provider OOONA has kicked off the new year with a new service: The POOOL, an online, openly searchable database of audiovisual translation talent around the world, dir... More

Cognizant Acquires Inawisdom

Cognizant has acquired Inawisdom, a UK-based, privately-held consultancy specializing in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to help businesses make bette... More

SAG-AFTRA, PGA Recommend Temporary Hold on Southern California Production Amid COVID Surge (Variety)

Amid surging COVID-19 cases in Southern California following the holidays, SAG-AFTRA, the Producers Guild of America and the Joint Policy Committee are together recommending a “t... More

After Turning the Ripe Age of 21, What’s Next for Salesforce? (Forbes)

Adam Blitzer, EVP and GM of Salesforce Digital, shares what's in store for the next 10 years.... More

Cartesian Offers Year-End Review, 2021 Predictions

Consulting firm Cartesian has offered up its insights into the unique trends that shaped media and entertainment in 2020, and is predicting what's next for the industry in the year... More

IBM Helps Prepare Clients for Next Generation Encryption Technology

New IBM Security Homomorphic Encryption Services will offer education, expert support, and testing environment to build prototype applications using emerging encryption schemes. (m... More

human-I-T Partners With Sponsored

Sponsored, a self-serve marketplace that connects podcasters with interested marketers, is joining the human-I-T community.... More

2021 Will be Full ‘Stream’ Ahead for Splunk (IT Wire)

Splunk has continued its acquisition path in 2020 and moves into 2021 focused on its cloud journey and customer innovation.... More

DCMA Selects Box for Cloud Content Management

Box announced that the Defense Contract Management Agency, the contract administration services for the U.S. Department of Defense, issued a five year, $6.2m contract for Box’s e... More

AWS Introduces New Chaos Engineering as a Service Offering (TechCrunch)

The goal of chaos engineering is to understand how your application responds to issues by injecting failures into your application, usually running these experiments against produc... More

Verizon Business Brings Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband to SAP Labs

Verizon and SAP have expanded their strategic partnership to develop and test new 5G solutions. (more…)... More

Ad Budgets Seen Shifting From Linear TV to OTT (B&C)

Ad budgets will grow for 2021 but spending will shift to digital, particularly from linear television to over-the-top and connected TV, according to a new study.... More

Penske to Merge Business Functions of Music Titles, Names New Hires (Media Post)

This would bring together the business functions — such as ad sales, marketing and brand partnerships — of the top music news publishers in the U.S.... More

Qumulo Cloud Leadership Recognized for Innovation, Excellence

Qumulo has been honored with multiple awards for its breakthrough leadership in simplifying unstructured data management at massive scale across hybrid cloud environments. (more&he... More

Amazon Web Services to Deliver Twitter Timelines (Adweek)

The social network will tap AWS’ infrastructure and portfolio of services to support the delivery of millions of tweets per day, marking the first time Twitter is leveraging the ... More

Adobe’s Document Services Make PDFs Easier to Work With for Developers (TechCrunch)

Over the course of the last year, Adobe has quietly continued to expand its tools for helping developers use PDFs in their applications.... More

Sony Electronics Named CES 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree for Spatial Reality Display

The award highlights products demonstrating standout innovation, design and functionality. (more…)... More

CreativeFuture CEO Ruth Vitale Testifies Before Congress on Voluntary Initiatives to Reduce Online Piracy

In a Senate Judiciary IP Subcommittee hearing re-evaluating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, CreativeFuture CEO Ruth Vitale called on YouTube to work with the creative communi... More

Ben Hsiao Joins Alvarez & Marsal’s Restructuring Arm in China (Consultancy)

Hsiao joins the firm’s Restructuring & Turnaround practice, which is enjoying heightened demand across Asia and China for its corporate restructuring advisory services amid a cha... More

EY, Microsoft Expand Xbox Enterprise Blockchain Platform for Rights, Royalties Management

Ernst & Young and Microsoft have expanded Microsoft’s blockchain-based solution for gaming rights and royalties management to provide a financial system of record, from contract ... More

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