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The Adobe Digital Report Predicts AI Will Come of Age in 2018 (The Drum)

A survey of 13,000 marketing, creative and technology professionals conducted by Adobe has distilled the key digital and technology trends which look set to shape marketing strateg... More

The Battle for Video Entertainment Goes Global: Who Will Win? (Forbes)

The digital video space is maturing quickly, with new services joining the battle every week. In the U.S. market alone, digital channels on platforms like Roku number in the thousa... More

Influential Uses Watson AI to Help Brands Find Influencers (VentureBeat)

Influential has launched its Social Intelligence platform to find influencers for brands with the help of IBM Watson’s artificial intelligence. The idea is to make influencers... More

IBM Watson Unity SDK Brings AI to Enterprise AR, VR Apps (TechRepublic)

On Tuesday, IBM and Unity launched the IBM Watson Unity SDK on the Unity Asset Store, allowing developers to more easily integrate Watson cloud services and artificial intelligence... More

Why the NBA is Betting Big on Virtual Reality (SB Nation)

The NBA’s relationship with technology is paramount to its growth as a league. Its embrace of social media has opened doors that other sports leagues slammed shut, providing an u... More

IBM Blockchain Aims to Boost Unilever and Digital Media Ad Profit (Fast Company)

On Monday, Unilever’s chief marketing officer Keith Weed gave a speech in which he outlined the world’s second-biggest advertiser’s concerns with the toxic environment and co... More

Why Hollywood Has Become Obsessed with Podcasts (The Guardian)

The podcast and prestige TV booms have charted similarly ascendant paths in the last several years, so it makes sense that, with both bubbles almost at capacity, the two have melde... More

Adobe Designers Offer 4 Insights Into VR’s Future (VentureBeat)

Adobe has traditionally pioneered tools and workflows for professionals and creatives to build for a digital medium. The rise of virtual reality has led to Adobe building the platf... More

Google Thinks the Future of the Web Is … Email (Fast Company)

When was the last time you were lost on your smartphone? Because for me, it was just this morning. Whether on Facebook, Twitter, or email itself, I end up tapping something that ta... More

Snap Will Use Data to Lure Digital Stars Back From Instagram (Bloomberg)

Snap Inc. will finally start giving digital celebrities more data about how popular their posts are -- a move that could help reverse an exodus to Instagram. Snap is going to gi... More

Magic Leap is Partnering with Turner Sports and the NBA to Stream Games on an App (TechCrunch)

Magic Leap and the National Basketball Association are partnering with Turner Sports to show live games on its platform in an app that will be available to Magic Leap One “Creato... More

Expert: AI Will Force People to Merge Brains with Computers (CNBC)

Artificial intelligence could be "billions of times smarter" than humans and people may need to merge with computers to survive, a futurist told CNBC on Tuesday. Speaking on a p... More

TNT Launches Virtual Reality App for NBA All-Star Game (B&C)

In advance of the league’s All-Star weekend, Turner said it launched its NBA on TNT VR app, which will bring fans closer to the game thanks to Intel’s True VR virtual reality t... More

5 Ways Blockchain is Changing the Face of Innovation of 2018 (Forbes)

The surging popularity of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies offers a vision of a more efficient world where individuals can deal directly with each other without trusted centralised ins... More

Google Makes Its Special AI Chips Available to Others (NY Times)

A few years ago, Google created a new kind of computer chip to help power its giant artificial intelligence systems. These chips were designed to handle the complex processes that ... More

12 Technologies That Will Disrupt Business in 2018 (CIO)

In 2018, disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and computer vision are maturing, going from game-changing ideas to foundational tools f... More

Adobe Keeps Sensei Busy with New Content Assignments (MarTech Today)

Adobe is adding more responsibilities to Sensei’s job description, announcing today a variety of new content-oriented integrations and enhancements in Adobe Experience Manager (A... More

Facebook Sees Its Gen Z Audience Slipping Away to Snapchat (AdAge)

Facebook is not just losing its audience, it's losing its youth. The social network is expected to shed 18-to-24-year-old users this year for the first time, according to a new ... More

SAP, Badgley Mischka Introduce Runway Mobile App for New York Fashion Week (MESA)

SAP and Badgley Mischka today announced that they will unveil the Badgley Mischka Runway mobile app by SAP, available exclusively on the iPhone and iPad, that will allow audience m... More

WP Engine Uses Amazon Web Services to Bring Voice Technology to WordPress Websites (MESA)

WP Engine announced its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch the Amazon Polly plugin, which transforms text into lifelike speech. With the assistance of the Amazo... More

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