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SAP: One Third of Business Leaders to Invest Over $500K in AI in 12 Months (Gigabit)

The research found that more than nine out of 10 business leaders are thinking this way, holding the belief that AI is critical for the survival of their organisations over the cou... More

Blockchain Technology: Five Obstacles to Mainstream Adoption (Forbes)

4. Finding the right balance in regulation: Overregulation can impede innovation. But it would be unrealistic to assert that there should be no role at all for regulation in the co... More

Is Voice Set to be The Next Big Thing in Marketing? (Forbes)

Voice-first technology is changing how consumers and businesses search for things they need. It's become more common to use the technology with mobile devices. Plus, with the adven... More

eSports Plan for Boost From Legal Gambling (THR)

The Supreme Court’s May 14 decision to strike down a federal law banning sports betting in most states is not only opening the door for wagering on big-league sports like the NFL... More

Wazee Digital Launches Revamped Commerce Portal (MESA)

Wazee Digital today announced the relaunch of Wazee Digital Commerce, a portal designed to help rights holders maximize the value of their premium content by connecting with custom... More

Intellivision Plans a Revival with New Game Console (Engadget)

Add Intellivision to the list of vintage console brands hoping for another shot at glory. Intellivision Entertainment has revealed that it's in the early stages of creating a new v... More

NBA’s New AR App Lets You Step Into a Portal to the Finals (CNET)

You can't teleport to a pro basketball game -- yet -- but the NBA is doing the next best thing: Using an augmented reality app to bring you courtside at the NBA Finals. A new updat... More

IBM, Crédit Mutuel Strengthen Partnership to Build the Bank of Tomorrow (MESA)

Crédit Mutuel announced a sweeping digital reinvention, partnering with IBM to devise new ways of working to better serve the bank's 12 million customers. Crédit Mutuel has selec... More

Snapchat Launches Accelerator for Mobile-First Media Companies (THR)

Snaphat's parent company is launching an accelerator program through which it hopes to help grow a new crop of potential media partners. Through the three-month program, dubbed Yel... More

Vevo to Shutter its Apps, Website in Coming Weeks (Billboard)

Vevo announced on Thursday it will "phase out elements" of its owned and operated platforms -- meaning its mobile apps and consumer website -- and shift the company's focus toward ... More

Salesforce: Sales Teams are Increasingly Bullish on AI (VentureBeat)

Salesforce released its third annual State of Sales report today, a compendium of insights, trends, and surveys from over 2,900 sales professionals worldwide. It’s chock full of ... More

Avid Enters Multiyear Agreement with Seneca College to Upgrade Media Creation, Production Teaching Facilities (MESA)

Avid today announced that Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology has become an Avid Media Campus site standardizing on Avid’s platform-based workflows across its eight cam... More

IBM Plans to Hire 1,800 People in France for Blockchain, AI (TechCrunch)

IBM CEO Virginia Rometty is currently having lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. And Rometty talked with Le Monde and announced some new investments in France as ... More

House Looks at Implications of IoT (B&C)

The House Energy & Commerce Committee's Digital Subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday (May 22) on a bipartisan bill, the State of Modern Application, Research, and Trends [SMART] IoT... More

Microsoft Acquires Conversational AI Startup (VentureBeat)

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Semantic Machines to bolster its conversational AI offerings — like Cortana, the Azure Bot Service, and Microsoft Cognitive Service... More

Digital Strategies are so 2016: Time for an Artificial Intelligence Strategy (Forbes)

There's nothing new about organizations and their leaders fumbling around for a coherent, business-relevant strategy any time a new technology appears on the scene. We've been seei... More

Could VR and 360 Video Change the Way We Watch TV? (Gigabit)

Earlier in the year, the BBC announced plans to produce its first ever virtual reality documentary series. The two-part series, which follows BBC Africa Correspondent Alastair Leit... More

Location-Based Virtual Reality is Growing: How Big is the Potential Market? (THR)

Location-based virtual reality experiences are popping up with increasing frequency. Recently, Fox entered the location-based VR entertainment business with its Alien: Descent, a f... More

China Leads the U.S. in Patent Applications for Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (Forbes)

China, thanks to its 1.37 billion residents, leads the world on a number of counts. The smartphone user population totaled 663 million last year, more than anywhere else, and its i... More

eSports Gets a Foot in Olympic Door with IOC Summit (SportsPro)

IOC president Thomas Bach has revealed plans for a meeting with key players from the competitive gaming industry in Lausanne, Switzerland at the end of July. The summit will seek t... More

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