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CenturyLink Acquires Strategic Networking Assets (Multichannel News)

CenturyLink today announced it has acquired certain strategic assets of the company formerly known as Active Broadband Networks, a provider in software-based broadband networking. ... More

Media Consolidation Could be on Menu as Moguls Descend on Sun Valley for Allen Conference (TheStreet)

Media moguls will have no shortage of topics about which to gossip when they meet in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 5 for investment banker Allen & Co.'s annual retreat and power broke... More

Senior Colorist David Cole Joins FotoKem Creative Services (MESA)

Senior Colorist David Cole has joined FotoKem’s Creative Services Division, deepening the facility’s digital intermediate talent bench. The move underscores FotoKem’s focus o... More

Prime Focus Technologies Honored With Two Awards at CMO Asia Awards (MESA)

Prime Focus Technologies brought home two awards at the 2016 CMO Asia National Awards for Marketing Excellence. PFT's Vice President and Head of Global Marketing and Communications... More

Tata Communications Launches Wi-Fi+ (ETTelecom)

Tata Communications Tuesday introduced Wi-Fi+, a new Wi-Fi cloud communication solution to enable telcos' customers to seamlessly access the internet for calling, messaging, and da... More

Netflix Co-Founder Wants to Sell You a Subscription to Go to the Movies (Bloomberg)

Almost two decades after helping found Netflix, Mitch Lowe is turning his attention to another startup trying to change the way people watch movies. Lowe has taken over as chief ex... More

Facebook is Cutting Traffic to Publishers in Favor of User-Generated Content (Recode)

Bad news, publishers: Your Facebook reach is probably going to shrink. Facebook is tweaking its News Feed algorithm to prioritize posts that come from users’ family and friends, ... More

Adobe Pushes New Open Standard for Cloud-based Digital Signatures (ZDNet‎)

Adobe says it processes more than six billion digital and electronic signature transactions each year through Adobe Sign and Adobe Document Cloud. So it's no surprise that the crea... More

Oracle, BT Team Up to Conquer the Cloud (Business Cloud News)

Through the new partnership customers will be able to use several features of BT Cloud Connect environment to gain direct connectivity to the Oracle Cloud. The offering will provid... More

Garcia Joins Cognizant (MESA)

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. has added Theodore X Garcia as its new VP and Western region leader for the company’s Information, Media and Entertainment (IME) group. He’... More

Net Neutrality Rules Will Make Winners and Losers Out of Businesses (Harvard Business Review)

The internet is woven into the fabric of how businesses run and how we live our lives. And as this technology has grown, so have the complications with how we build, manage, and re... More

What Brexit Means For Tech (Fortune)

Now that the citizens of the U.K. have voted to leave the European Union, it’s time to take a good look at the implications for the technology sector. So-called Brexit will take ... More

Wazee Digital and Visual Data Form Global Media Distribution Strategic Alliance (MESA)

Wazee Digital today announced a strategic alliance with Visual Data Media Services, a global provider of digital content management and delivery. This relationship enables Wazee Di... More

Oracle Gives Partners a Fast Path to Cloud (MESA)

The new offering enables ISV partners to quickly register and publish their Oracle Cloud-compatible applications on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, allowing them to fast-track new bu... More

Big Media Needs to Embrace Digital Shift—Not Fight It (WSJ)

Media companies need to reimagine themselves as factories of video content: Television is one hugely lucrative platform, but they will ignore YouTube, Facebook Live and Snapchat at... More

Amazon Will Launch AWS IoT Button This Summer (CRN)

Amazon Web Services has taken a page out of the Amazon retail arm's book, emulating the Amazon Dash Button with the limited-release AWS IoT Button. "A solution can start with somet... More

Austin Cybersecurity Company NSS Labs Raises $16M (Austin Inno)

Cybersecurity is a booming business for those who get an edge on the competition. Austin-based NSS Labs, Inc. is one of the companies picking up major customers, such as Visa and D... More

Ed Ulbrich to Lead Virtual Reality and VFX at Deluxe (THR)

Ed Ulbrich, a producer and former Digital Domain CEO, has joined Deluxe Entertainment Services Group as president and general manager, Deluxe Visual Effects. He also will drive Del... More

Infor Joins FedRAMP Process (Enterprise Times)

Infor has announced that it has finally started the process to gain FedRAMP approval for its CloudSuite ERP. Sensibly it will host the services it intends to sell into government a... More

Net Neutrality Advocates Plan European Protest (HMM)

Pro-net neutrality groups plan to “slow down” the Internet across Europe June 28 as part of a grassroots public awareness program to maintain open access to the Web. “The EU ... More

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