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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

ACA: FCC Should Not Rush ATSC 3.0 (B&C)

Small and medium-sized cable operators say the FCC is nowhere near ready to let broadcasters start broadcasting in the ATSC 3.0 transmission standard and needs to consider the cost... More

IBM Launches Two New Watson Services for Twilio (eWeek)

IBM announced two new Watson Services on the Twilio Marketplace to give more than 1 million registered developers access to cognitive capabilities. IBM announced a collaboration wi... More

Xstream Appoints Siefkin as VP North America (Broadband TV News)

OTT solution provider Xstream has appointed former Clearleap executive, Greg Siefkin, as VP North America. In his new role, he will play an instrumental part in the strategic devel... More

Facebook Aims To Power All Online Advertising (IBT)

One and a half billion people just wasn't enough. Facebook, which turned its 1.65 billion users into an $18 billion ad business, will now start showing ads to the rest of the world... More

Wazee Digital Hires Cloud Veteran as VP for Western US (Rapid TV News)

Wazee Digital has appointed Per Hultin as vice president of sales for the Western US region. Hultin joins the business with extensive sales experience in broadcast media and cloud-... More

Apple Proposed Buying Time Warner (IBT)

Apple raised the possibility of buying Time Warner, the parent company of Warner Bros., CNN and HBO, according to the Financial Times. While talks never went beyond a preliminary ... More

CSC CEO: Merger with HPE Was a ‘Next Logical Step’ (HITS)

The decision by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to spin off its Enterprise Services Business and merge it with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) was a “next logical step” fo... More

4 Ways to Adapt Your Media Workflow to the Cloud (Sohonet Blog)

With more and more frequency you hear of big M&E companies moving the guts of their media services from existing on-premise data centres to the Cloud. The question is:“Why? Why s... More

Why Adobe Believes in User-Generated Content Marketing (CMSWire)

Every content strategy, while sharing common foundational best practices, is a unique strategy. Adobe believes it has a unique content story for marketers through its acquisition o... More

Rubio: Go Slow on ICANN Domain Name Hand-off (MCN)

Senate Republicans, including former presidential candidate Marco Rubio, were pushing back Tuesday (May 24) on the planned handoff of domain naming oversight from the U.S. to a UN ... More

Warner Music Streamlines Digital Processes with OpenText Business Network (MESA)

OpenTex today announced that Warner Music France, the French entity of the Warner Music Group, the world's third largest music company, has strengthened its partnership with OpenTe... More

CBS CEO: Network TV’s ‘Never Been Stronger’

The supposed death of broadcast TV was premature and network TV has “never been stronger,” CBS CEO Les Moonves told the Needham Emerging Technology Conference in New York on Ma... More

Xerox Releases New Digital Workflow Solutions (CMSWire)

Xerox released 15 digital workflow solutions that are designed to automate and simplify work across three targeted verticals, notably manufacturing, retail banking and higher educa... More

Entertainment Partners Honored with the Strategic Acquisition Award by Association for Corporate Growth (MESA)

Entertainment Partners, the leading end-to-end provider of payroll and production management services for all aspects of the entertainment industry for nearly 40 years, was honored... More

Space150 Lands Be The Match Digital Assignment (MediaPost)

Be The Match, a non-profit that manages the world’s largest marrow donor registry, has tapped space150 to develop a digital engagement and donor recruitment strategy aimed at you... More

YuMe Boosts Viewability in Ad Platform (Rapid TV News)

YuMe has announced new capabilities to improve brand safety and viewability standards for its programmatic video advertising platform, YuMe for Advertisers (YFA). This includes int... More

PwC: Foreign Investment Expected to Rise in US Media Sector (World Screen)

PwC’s latest report on merger and acquisition activity in the American media business projects that “foreign buyers armed with cash, particularly from China,” will be increas... More

Salesforce Surges as Large Revenue Deals Help Drive Growth (Bloomberg)

Salesforce.com Inc. is targeting the biggest of customers to get big itself. The company, once known for selling business productivity software to small- and medium-sized clients, ... More

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