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Netflix’s Secrets to Success: Six Cell Towers, Dubbing, More (Variety)

This week, Netflix invited journalists from around the world to its offices in Hollywood and Los Gatos, Calif., to shine the spotlight on some of its work. The Netflix button is... More

Why Companies and Countries are Battling for Ascendancy in 5G (New York Times)

Being at the forefront of a new technology often provides a strategic advantage. That helps explain why there is so much scrapping now by companies and countries over a next wave o... More

5G’s Secret Weapon Will Be Low Latency, Empowering Next-Gen VR, Gaming (VentureaBeat)

As the 2018 Mobile World Congress wound down this week, next-generation 5G wireless technology was clearly the show’s biggest story, promising dramatically faster data speeds. Bu... More

If Content is King, Who Will Become Its Emperor? (Forbes)

What makes this content war even more interesting is that the parties involved are not only pure media players like Netflix ($130B market cap), Hulu (Private), Time Warner ($93B), ... More

NCAA March Madness to Reach 16 Platforms (B&C)

NCAA March Madness Live, a suite of streaming products developed by Turner Sports in partnership with the CBS and the NCAA, will stream live games and deliver other content from th... More

As Disney’s Streaming Service Nears, Netflix Rolls Out Improved Parental Controls (TechCrunch)

Netflix this morning announced a series of updates that will make its service more family-friendly, including an additional option to set a PIN code on individual series or movies,... More

‘Success’ on YouTube Still Means a Life of Poverty (Bloomberg)

Do your children dream of YouTube stardom? Do them a favor: Crush that ambition now. New research out of Germany billed as among the first to review the chances of making it in ... More

Sky to Bundle Netflix Into New Subscription Pack Across UK, Europe (Deadline)

In a first-of-its-kind partnership, Sky and Netflix are teaming up to bring the streaming service into a new Sky TV subscription pack. Sky customers will now have access to Netflix... More

Amazon Will Start Selling UFC PPV Fights (Recode)

Amazon is taking another step closer to parity with the big cable providers: It inked a new deal with UFC to sell pay-per-view packages for the organization’s upcoming slate of w... More

IBM Watson CTO Rob High on Bias and Other Challenges in Machine Learning (TechCrunch)

For IBM Watson CTO Rob High, the biggest technological challenge in machine learning right now is figuring out how to train models with less data. “It’s a challenge, it’s a g... More

Netflix Eyeing Total of About 700 Original Series, Movies in 2018 (Variety)

Netflix, set to spend upwards of $8 billion on content in 2018, will have in the neighborhood of 700 original TV shows, movies and specials on the service this year, according to C... More

3 AI Terms All Business Professionals Need to Understand (VentureBeat)

Rob High, IBM: The value and utility of artificial intelligence is a hot topic today. In fact, a recent report by MIT Sloan Management Review asserts that almost 85 percent of exec... More

Sky Q Promises Spotify, HDR, Hours of UHD (Tech Radar)

Sky has announced that from March 2018 it will begin to roll out some big innovations on Sky Q. Those sitting with a brand new 4K HDR TV and a rapidly depleting 4K Netflix and ... More

Epix Plans Standalone Video Service, Preps Launch of 4K Video (Variety)

Premium cable network Epix has plans to launch a standalone, direct-to-consumer video subscription service, revealed the network’s executive VP and GM Monty Sahran in a conversat... More

Snapchat is Enlisting More Publishers to Make Video Shows (Digiday)

I want my Snap TV? Snapchat plans to double the amount of Snapchat video shows it releases this year to roughly 80 shows, including what could be its first serialized, scripted ... 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

AT&T Names Atlanta, Dallas, Waco First of 12 U.S. Cities to Get 5G Wireless (TechCrunch)

AT&T wireless announced on Tuesday the first cities to get its 5G network. The carrier plans on installing 5G in twelve cities by the end of 2018 and on top of the list is Atlanta,... More

Is Spotify Getting Ready to Challenge Apple with Its Own Speaker? (The Guardian)

Spotify is working on a line of “category defining” hardware products and is ready to start setting up the manufacturing process. The streaming music company intends to create ... More

Report: Over a Third of Winter Olympics Viewers are Watching Online (TVBEurope)

A new report says 35 per cent of Winter Olympics viewers are watching the Games online. According to Global Web Index, fans are also spending an average of two hours 24 minutes a d... More

Google Turns on the Charm with Publishers by Focusing on Subscriptions (Digiday)

Google is vying for the hearts and minds of publishers with an appeal to their bottom lines, particularly in attracting subscribers. Last fall, Google ended its controversial fi... More

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