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Apple and MLB Sign Deal To Put iPads In Dugouts as Laptop Ban Ends (IBT)

Apple has struck an exclusive deal with Major League Baseball to supple the company’s iPad Pro tablets to every team along with a dedicated app to give teams instant access to pe... More

AOL Is Launching 2 New Video Ad Formats for Publishers (Adweek)

AOL is debuting two video ad formats today it says will be more viewable for advertisers and more user-friendly for consumers. The formats are meant to help build out the company's... More

Azure IoT Suite Gets Down to Business (CIO)

Whether your business is making jet engines, delivering towels or emptying rat traps, you need to be looking at how you can improve margins and customer satisfaction with the Inter... More

Mediamorph Adds Riley as Chief Revenue Officer (MESA)

Data management services company Mediamorph has added Jim Riley as its new chief revenue officer, bringing the industry vet over from Vubiquity. Riley’s new role will see him dev... More

Vizio and UHD Alliance in Serious Disagreement on 4K “UHD Premium” Standard Specs (4k)

The UHD Alliance released their recommended specs for 4K “UHD Premium” certification by the major consortium of consumer electronics manufacturers and media companies at CES 20... More

Prime Focus Taps Mohanrao as COO (MESA)

Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology arm of media services company Prime Focus, has tapped Raghunath Mohanrao as its new chief operating officer, bringing him over from I... More

There Is a Subtle Power Struggle for Control of Music Metadata (MotherBoard)

Many modern businesses now treat data as a valuable asset, even if they are still figuring out what exactly they might want to do with it. This is perhaps an appealing new way to v... More

Comcast-YES Network Standoff Puts Sports Rights Fees Back in Focus (Videonuze)

The never-ending tussle between pay-TV operators and sports TV networks over escalating carriage fees is back in focus due to the standoff between Comcast and the YES Network, whic... More

Study: Companies Favoring Content Over Ads (Broadcasting & Cable)

Click-through rates on banner ads have already hit rock bottom, 94% of online viewers skip pre-roll ads before five seconds have gone by, and an estimated 12% of display ads are ne... More

Why Sean Parker’s “Screening Room” Is Dividing Hollywood (Co.Create)

The details behind Screening Room and how it actually works remain murky at this point. Some studios have reportedly not even seen the Screening Room presentation. And the piracy q... More

How the CEO of Akamai Thinks About His Job (Boston.com)

If you watched the Super Bowl online you can thank Dr. Tom Leighton, CEO of Akamai Technologies, a global manager of Internet traffic based in Cambridge. The content delivery netwo... More

TiVo Said to Be in Merger Talks With Rovi (NY Times)

TiVo, the digital video recorder company that popularized the DVR and revolutionized “time shifting” and fast-forwarding through advertising, is in advanced negotiations to be ... More

Wazee Digital To Launch Live Event Services at NAB 2016 (MESA)

Wazee Digital, a leading provider of cloud-based video management and licensing services, is announcing the launch of a Live Event Services product at NAB 2016. Using Wazee Digital... More

Nokia Selects Deluxe for VR Post-Production (Advanced Television)

Deluxe will provide high quality post-production services for OZO VR content, including editorial, stitching and colour. Deluxe will also harness the talents of more than 3,000 glo... More

Testronic to Open Dedicated VR Test Center (MESA)

Testronic, a leading QA, localization and compliance specialist, has opened a dedicated Virtual Reality Test Centre. The VR Centre will operate within Testronic’s Warsaw, Poland ... More

FCC’s Cable Box Rules Won’t Prohibit Extra Ads Around TV Channels (Ars Technica)

When the Federal Communications Commission voted for a plan to let consumers watch TV channels on more devices, pay-TV companies complained that makers of third-party set-top boxes... More

U.S. Postal Service Fails in Bid to Raise Prices on Netflix (Hollywood Reporter)

Netflix still has five million people who subscribe to its DVD-by-mail service. That might not sound like a lot, especially when compared to the 75 million who are Netflix streamin... More

Hardware Giants Bet Big on Virtual Reality and a Market That Doesn’t Yet Exist (Variety)

Remember that feeling as a child before your birthday — the mixture of excitement and worry that deepest-held wishes might not come true? That’s how everyone in the nascent bus... More

Content Security Experts: No Easy Answer to Hollywood’s Screener Problem

By Chris Tribbey It was hard to find anyone in favor of DVD screeners at the March 22 Content Protection Briefing event. But attendees and speakers at the event sure know why th... More

Amazon and Netflix Bet on Local TV to Win in Europe? (Bloomberg Business)

As Netflix and Amazon seek a bigger share of the European market, they’re coming up against powerful incumbents such as France’s Canal Plus, with 15 million subscribers, and Sk... More

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