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21st Century Fox Invests $100 Million in Social Live-Streaming Startup Caffeine (Variety)

Social live-streaming startup Caffeine continues to add to its war chest with a massive new round of funding led by 21st Century Fox, with existing investors Andreessen Horowitz an... More

Dolby Vision HDR is Ready for Testing on Xbox One (Engadget)

Microsoft promised Dolby Vision HDR support for the Xbox One and starting today, testers with an Xbox One S or Xbox One X (and a compatible 4K TV) can try it out with Netflix strea... More

The Lucrative (and Growing) Niche of Luxury Audio (Twice)

While the term “luxury” conjures up a range of different images, depending upon whom you speak with, there’s no denying that it implies something that’s not strictly necess... More

Dolby Collaborates with Lenovo on the First Laptop of its Kind (MESA)

Dolby and Lenovo announced today the world's first laptop featuring Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos Speaker System. The Lenovo Yoga C930 combines cinema-inspired HDR imaging technolog... More

Adobe Announces Open Platform for Experience Design with Adobe XD CC (MESA)

Adobe announced that Adobe XD is opening its platform to enable users to customize their tools with an ecosystem of community and partner-built plugins. Leveraging Adobe XD APIs, d... More

NFL: Tech Platforms Have Yet to Prove They Can Compete with Broadcast TV (Digiday)

The NFL’s top media exec expects the tech giants to become major players for live sports rights when the league’s existing big broadcasting deals expire in 2022. Brian Rolapp, ... More

What Blockchain Technology Can Do for Online Advertising (SmartBrief)

For the online advertising industry, there is real potential for the technology to help make it more effective and efficient. Currently, online advertising is fraught with fraud, w... More

The eSports Industry is Growing – Now Web Infrastructure Needs to Keep Up (ReadWrite)

Like traditional sports, e-sports can be costly. A prime component of e-sports infrastructure is video streaming, which enables competition. Viewers are able to share the videos an... More

CBS Sports Launches a Google Home Action for Fantasy Football Players (Digiday)

Instead of asking your friends or your cousins who to add to your fantasy football team, CBS Sports would like you to ask your Google Assistant. The broadcaster has launched a Goog... More

IBC 2018: AWS to Highlight Cloud Advancements (MESA)

At IBC 2018, Amazon Web Services will highlight cloud advancements along the entire content chain. Demonstrations will feature advanced cloud-based media services that support cont... More

Spotify Adds Showtime to $5 Monthly Student Plan (PCMag)

Spotify is making its premium plan for students even better. Priced at $4.99 a month, the plan already included unlimited on-demand access to the streaming service's library of mus... More

Amazon Challenging Netflix, Others on Multiple Entertainment Fronts (Forbes)

Amazon is moving on several fronts to boost its entertainment presence and reach, trying to cut streaming deals with two smaller studios while working on both an ad-supported strea... More

FandangoNOW Offering VOD Binge Bundles (Variety)

A decade or so ago, families used to make a Blockbuster run to pick up several of the latest movies to watch over the course of a weekend. The video store chain is now a distant me... More

Variety Business Intelligence Joins the Entertainment Identifier Registry Association (MESA)

The Entertainment Identifier Registry Association (EIDR), the source of universal identifiers for digital distribution of movies and television assets announced today that Variety ... More

Facebook Watch Going Global (THR)

Facebook is taking its Watch platform, the streaming content service designed to compete with Netflix, Amazon, Apple's upcoming effort and others, global while continuing to evolve... More

Panasonic, Samsung Lead HDR10+ Adopters (Rapid TV News)

HDR10+ Technologies has announced the first certified products and first adopters for its technology licence programme with two of the consortium’s founders — Panasonic and Sam... More

Shoppers Mobilized Behind Retail Apps (Twice)

Consumers are getting with the program when it comes to retailers’ mobile apps. According to a new study, more than two-thirds of shoppers (67 percent) have downloaded a retail a... More

OTT Carves Out Bigger Slice of Pay-TV Pie (Light Reading)

OTT TV providers continue to tack on subscribers at a rapid rate, but their grand total still represents a drop in the bucket when compared to the size of the full US pay-TV univer... More

Microsoft Just Turned the Xbox Into a Subscription Service (CNBC)

Microsoft just turned the Xbox into a subscription service and will sell it like Apple sells iPhones. Here's how it works: You can pick either a Microsoft Xbox One S or the more po... More

YouTube Starts Telling You How Much Time You’re Wasting on YouTube (Variety)

YouTube began rolling out its so-called digital wellbeing tools Monday morning, which include a dashboard that tells users how much time they’ve spent on the service watching vid... More

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