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TV Networks’ Branded Content on Facebook More Than Doubles in Less Than a Year (Variety)

Broadcast and cable networks have literally doubled down on the amount of sponsored video content they’ve posted to Facebook in the last nine months — and trend is just in its ... More

Will Apple Release an AR Headset for the Next iPhone? (The Verge)

Will Apple release an AR headset you can slip the next iPhone into, much like Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and the Gear VR? That’s ripe for speculation now that we know Apple’s upcomi... More

Study: Blockchain Technology Being Considered by More Than Half of Big Corporations (CNBC)

More than half of the world's large corporations are looking into blockchain (distributed ledger technology), according to a study by U.K. research firm Juniper Research. The re... More

Google’s Cord Cutter App YouTube TV Reaches 2 Million Downloads (TechCrunch)

Approximately 2 million people have installed the YouTube TV app, Google’s live TV service aimed at a younger generation of cord cutters, as well as those who never signed up for... More

Nuxeo Releases New Responsive, Configurable and Extensible Web UI (HITS)

Nuxeo today announced the release of Web UI, a brand new web client for the Nuxeo Platform. Nuxeo’s Web UI is built on a modern JavaScript stack (Polymer), leveraging Web Compone... More

Disney Researchers Create Mixed-Reality ‘Magic Bench’ for Shared Experiences (Variety)

You’re sitting down in front of a screen looking at an image of yourself, as if facing a mirror. Then a tiny elephant saunters into the frame, plops down next to you — and prof... More

TiVo Debuts New Personalized Content Discovery Platform (MESA)

TiVo has introduced its new fully-integrated Personalized Content Discovery platform. The new platform provides video operators with the most comprehensive suite of content discove... More

Adobe Taps Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla to Kill Flash by 2020 (VentureBeat)

Flash will officially be dead in three years. Adobe today announced it will stop updating and distributing its Flash Player at the end of 2020, encouraging content creators to migr... More

Is Mobile Virtual Reality Ready for Its Closeup? (The Wrap)

Virtual reality may well be the next big thing, but only if it gets a lot smaller. Many of the brightest minds in the fast-growing technology say the easiest path to making VR main... More

PricewaterhouseCoopers Built a $3 Billion Relationship with the CMO (AdExchanger)

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), like other management consultancies in its competitive set, wants to grow its services to meet the needs of the modern chief marketing officer (CMO). ... More

Immersive Reality: The Most Disruptive Development in Technology History? (CMO)

Gardens weren’t the only thing in bloom this past spring: So were immersive technologies. Four major platforms–Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook–all made big moves to es... More

Why Hollywood Studios are Slow to Embrace Virtual Reality (The Wrap)

Are virtual and augmented reality truly the Next Big Thing for Hollywood? While every major studio is investing in VR experiences, so far most are short, under-10-minute extensions... More

Microsoft’s Next Step for Blockchain as a Service: Making it More Usable by Businesses (ZDNet)

Microsoft's next step in its evolving Blockchain-as-a-Service strategy is the introduction of Enterprise Smart Contracts. "Our customers and partners often say to us, 'Ok, you've m... More

Where is Hollywood Looking for the Next Hit? Podcasts (Wired)

When television networks resort to adapting books that haven’t even been written yet, it’s time to start looking for new source material. Luckily, salvation might be as close a... More

The Traditional Sports World is Taking eSports into the Mainstream (Engadget)

Five years ago, you couldn't have imagined video game competitions being broadcasted on the same channel as traditional sports. TV networks have been historically obsessed with pas... More

ATV Teams up with Avid to Bolster Sports Graphics Workflow (MESA)

Avid today announced that ATV has invested in an advanced Avid graphics solution. Powered by the Avid MediaCentral Platform, the industry’s most open, tightly integrated and effi... More

Slack Makes Push for Developers as Competition Intensifies (Reuters)

Slack Technologies Inc on Wednesday showcased new tools designed to make it easier for developers to build apps for the company’s workplace collaboration software. The develop... More

Disney Joins AR Fray with $200 Star Wars AR Headset (Forbes)

At its D23 fan event in Anaheim, CA, Disney announced that its LucasFilm subsidiary and Lenovo are developing a smartphone based augmented reality headset which will feature Star W... More

Amazon’s Push Into Social May Set It on Collision Course with Facebook (VentureBeat)

After years of indifference toward social networks, Amazon is suddenly getting very social this year. Spark, the company’s social shopping feature introduced this week, is the cl... More

NBC is Launching Snapchat’s First Daily News Show Today (Refinery29)

If you're already addicted to watching the news on your phone, you have yet another reason to keep tuning in. Today, NBC is launching a twice-daily news show called Stay Tuned on S... More

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