Business
Report: Verizon Bidding $3 Billion for Yahoo Assets (Bloomberg)
Verizon Communications Inc. will bid $3 billion for Yahoo! Inc.’s main internet assets, the Wall Street Journal reported, seeking to edge out AT&T Inc., TPG and other potenti... More
DEG’s Canon Club to Host Christie Hefner (MESA)
Members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) and DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) are invited guests to a fireside chat with Christie Hefner, the for... More
FX Chief Warns Against Copying Netflix, Silicon Valley Giants (Variety)
FX CEO John Landgraf warned of too much tech-world thinking creeping into the television business when speaking at the Produced By conference in Culver City on Saturday. “Ther... More
Evolution Digital, WOW! Reach Agreement on eVUE-TV IP Video Platform (MESA)
Evolution Digital announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with WOW! Internet, Broadband and Cable to deploy Evolution Digital’s newly developed eVUE-TV IP video sol... More
Adobe, Salesforce, SAS Dominate Cross-Channel Marketing Report (CMO)
Adobe, Salesforce, SAS and Oracle are leading the cross-channel campaign management pack, according to the latest Forrester research. The new Forrester Wave: Cross Channel Campa... More
Rovi: No Decision On Exiting Consumer Hardware Biz (Multichannel)
Rovi issued a statement Monday to clarify that no decision has been made to exit the consumer hardware business as it moves ahead with its $1.1 billion acquisition of TiVo. The ... More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Paramount Partner on Star Trek Beyond (HPE)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has teamed with Paramount Pictures to imagine technology 250 years into the future for the upcoming Star Trek Beyond feature film from Paramount Pictures... More
Adobe, HP Enterprise, Symantec Loom As Software M&A Sharks (IBD)
Adobe Systems, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Symantec are among smaller sharks that could get involved in the ongoing acquisition spree of software companies, says Pacific C... More
FCC’s O’Rielly: Media Ownership Limits Must Go (B&C)
FCC Republican commissioner Michael O'Rielly says that Congress has made it clear that the media marketplace is competitive, diverse and needs less regulation, not more. That means... More
IBM’s CEO Thinks Every Digital Business Will Become a Cognitive Computing Business (Fortune)
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is optimistic that the company’s wager on “cognitive computing,” the term it uses for applied artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies,... More
Demand for AWS and Azure Skills on the Rise as Cloud Adoption Grows (V3.co.uk)
Demand for engineers with skills relating to Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft's Azure platform has seen the most growth in the IT jobs market over the past year, according to... More
BTI Studios to Open French Dubbing Facility in Paris (MESA)
The entertainment market in France has seen massive growth in recent years and BTI’s new dubbing studios will be custom built in Paris to meet the growing need of the broadcast a... More
Internet Boom Times Are Over, Says Mary Meeker’s Influential Report (Bloomberg)
Growth of internet users worldwide is essentially flat, and smartphone growth is slowing, too. Those sobering insights were among the hundreds packed into the much-awaited Internet... More
Manufacturers Plan to Boost Budget for Supply Chain Digitization (eMarketer)
Migrating analog processes and data to digital technologies has become increasingly valuable for retailers and manufacturers that want to more closely monitor their supply chain. A... More
Salesforce Will Acquire Demandware For $2.8 Billion In Move Into Digital Commerce (Forbes)
As Salesforce continues to branch out into new types of cloud computing customers, it’s willing to pay steep prices to buy what it can’t build. The latest proof is Salesforce�... More
Capgemini Launches Digital Manufacturing Services (Manufacturing Global)
These new services will be delivered through a digital manufacturing centre of excellence - or CoE - in Mumbai, and three further hubs located in North America, France, and Germany... More
Testronic Sponsors In-House Studio Prize at Develop Awards 2016 (Develop)
Testronic has signed up to support this year's Develop Awards, sponsoring the In-House Studio category. The In-House Studio award recognises the most successful and accomplished pu... More
Towards an Even More Fragmented European Audiovisual Market? (DisCo)
The very existence of this single market rests on the Country of Origin principle, i.e. the fact that a company only has to apply the law of its Member State of establishment when ... More
IBM’s New Team to Focus on Millennials (Business Standard)
By 2020, research suggests that 50 per cent of the workforce will have millennials as employees. The world’s largest technology and information technology services firm IBM wants... More
Infor Implementation Accelerator for CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine) Now Available (MESA)
Infor today announced the general availability of the Infor Implementation Accelerator for Infor CloudSuiteTM Industrial (SyteLine), so organizations in the manufacturing and distr... More
