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Verizon Digital Media Services is announcing the acquisition of Volicon, a company offering video capture and monitoring tools for TV broadcasters. Volicon says its products are us... More

Fox Networks Group said Tuesday that it will be the latest media company to dip into “programmatic” technology, where advertisers can use software tools and data to target audi... More

If you want to watch the Disney Channel or BET in the U.S., you pretty much need a costly pay-TV plan, one with hundreds of networks you couldn’t care less about. In other countr... More

This year SXSW, as the festival is known, feels like a story of how the tech ethos has escaped the bounds of hardware and software. Tech is turning into a culture and a style, one ... More

When it comes to movies, Parker believes that the future is a couch-based one, but that view has its detractors. Theaters have resisted efforts to shrink the time between a film’... More

IP video solutions company Evolution Digital has added two new regional sales directors, in a nod to the company’s expansion across the U.S. Industry vets Tom Poynton and David B... More

Tech companies are now regularly co-sponsors of primary debates, their logos visible behind candidates during broadcasts that are breaking ratings records. More than half of the sa... More

Veteran colorist Maxine Gervais has joined Technicolor as senior supervising colorist, based at Technicolor Hollywood on the Sunset Gower Studios lot. A frequent collaborator with ... More

Mediamorph Inc. announced today that its Mediamorph Platform won a Cablefax 2016 Tech Award in the category of “Commercial Software”. The Tech Awards praise forward-thinking te... More

Wazee Digital has successfully launched a business to business content portal for BBC Worldwide’s global sales team to enhance the marketing of programmes to broadcasters from ar... More

Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology arm of post-production and media tech company Prime Focus, has added Cisco Systems India veteran Samu Devarajan as its new independen... More

Amazon adheres to a more traditional distribution strategy. It partners with indie distributors, such as Roadside or Bleecker Street, to release movies in theaters, and then makes ... More

How does the future of creative mobile apps look like? Mobile usage surpassed desktop in 2014, so it’s a big question to answer. To answer that question, I sat down to talk with ... More

AMC Theatres March 3 announced it is acquiring Carmike Cinemas for $1.1 billion in cash, which includes the assumption of Carmike debt. The deal creates the world’s largest theat... More

Verizon and Hearst have pacted on a 50-50 joint venture to create and launch digital-video channels with original programming aimed at younger, mobile-skewing consumers. Under the ... More

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but turning to a subscription model means that you think a lot more than two birds are in the bush. Adobe Systems has been transiti... More

Looks like Tidal’s ship may be coming in. Phone giant Samsung, which enjoys a long relationship with Jay Z’s music streaming service, has restarted talks to acquire the 16-mont... More

Smoke & Mirrors, a visual effects and full-service post-production company based out of New York, has called on IBM’s Aspera to help manage file transfers between Smoke &... More

Akamai’s security business enjoyed a jolt of new business from besieged websites last year, even as its big Silicon Valley customers spent less money on its network. The shift ca... More

Xerox Corp., in an agreement with investor Carl Icahn, is splitting into two publicly traded companies – essentially breaking out the operations acquired with its largest-ever pu... More