M+E Connections

Strong performance in Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud business provided a boost for the company’s results in the second quarter (ended Dec. 31) as a 50% increase in Azure revenue... More

In 2019, 68 percent of business leaders felt their cybersecurity risks were increasing. 2020 may have seen another challenge take precedence. It’s safe to say that COVID-19 c... More

Meg Morrissey, senior data librarian at Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution, has been appointed co-chair of the Language Metadata Table (LMT) Working Group. The news c... More

Have you been enjoying your stay in the Upside Down World? These past nine months have been an astonishing 17 years for us, too. We are in awe of our friends in data, IT, and secur... More

Akamai will offer its latest insights into content piracy and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, Adobe will share its latest paperless progress report, and the media and... More

Security was among the strongest business categories for IBM in its fourth quarter (ended Dec. 31), along with Internet of Things (IoT) and the Red Hat business that it acquired in... More

PADEM Media Group chief executive Allan McLennan joined the ranks of Wall Street Journal bestsellers as a co-author of the new book, “Authority: Strategic Concepts from 15 Intern... More

After years of working the floor at CES, it’s easy to summarize: dumb from the neck up, numb from the neck down. This year was worse. You couldn’t “miss” a keynote, press e... More

As the number of major streaming video rivals continued to grow in the fourth quarter (ended Dec. 31), Netflix still sees new opportunities to grow subscribers and increase the amo... More

Tenet painfully clawed itself to maybe $80 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and perhaps $400 million globally while most major projects were slid into next year or worse, slippe... More

The program for the 25 Feb. Content Workflow Management Forum — “M&E’s Premiere Localization Event” — is beginning to take shape, with discussions around the state of... More

Well, we did it. We bought a 2021 calendar. We hardly used last year’s and if this year is going to suck like 2020, we can always recycle. Despite all the corporate blood-lett... More

London-based Xcapsim Learning came about with the understanding that traditional methods of in-company training weren’t doing the job, with employees retaining roughly 30 percent... More

Verizon used the first day of the first virtual CES on Jan. 11 to tout its latest 5G milestones and initiatives. During the first virtual CES keynote, Hans Vestberg, Verizon CEO... More

Over recent years, streaming has already been booming to meet the desires and habits of consumers. Various OTT models were already well positioned for the global lock-down, or shel... More

Do we have to say it? Christmas and New Year’s didn’t panning out exactly as we envisioned last year. Not by a long shot! Even if our local IMAX had been open, there’s n... More

The COVID-19 pandemic led to film production and new film releases slowing to a crawl, as well as theaters being crippled and a wide range of ramped-up security threats to media an... More

Over the last couple of years, Convergent Risks has provided more than a 1,000 security assessments. And with most media and entertainment firms moving to a work-from-home situatio... More

The Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA) used a session at the Dec. 8 virtual Content Protection Summit to provide an update on its App & Cloud Control Framework... More

At the Dec. 8 virtual Content Protection Summit, Mark Barron, principal solutions engineer for Akamai, shared his company’s approach to piracy today. (more…)... More