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Amazon is closing down Lovefilm, its DVD rental service in the U.K. and Germany, later this year. The e-commerce giant said that while streaming is growing at a fast clip, the DVD ... More

Last night Facebook announced “Watch,” as its primary video initiative. Watch is an update of Facebook’s Video Tab, which was originally introduced in April, 2016, but with a... More

Let the upcoming fourth quarter be known as the incubator phase of the six-second video ad unit, a few industry players echoed in recent days. Next year, they say, it’s go time. ... More

Sr. Motion Designer — Redwood City, CA — Box Integrated Marketing Manager — NYC — CBS Interactive Senior Cloud Engineer — Los Angeles — PwC Click here to view all av... More

NeuLion and the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC), conference home to the 2016 and 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey national champions, today announced a partners... More

Video: Avid has undergone quite a transformation over the past couple of years. One of the latest major software-based introductions was Media Central Cloud UX, which first debuted... More

Wazee Digital, and USA Swimming, the national governing body for the sport of swimming, today announced that they have extended their partnership. Now, in addition to using Wazee D... More

Esports is becoming a true spectator sport, but will the average Joe one day care about competitive League of Legends or Overwatch or Counterstrike the way they care about watching... More

Julian Mower, Testronic’s Head of Pre-Production: Of course, many people know exactly what they need. But you’d be surprised how often people need QA and, due to scale or budge... More

You.i TV has named Rob White as CFO to be responsible for developing and executing the financial and investment strategies that underpin the company, which provides video app devel... More

Fox did not follow Disney’s lead last night in announcing new subscription streaming services for its content. But CEO James Murdoch told analysts today that he’s “very open ... More

Cisco has promoted long-time company vet David Goeckeler to EVP of networking and security, giving him responsibility for more than $32 billion of the company's tech business, over... More

Amazon.com is seeking to partner with U.S. venue owners to sell event tickets, four sources have told Reuters, a move that could loosen Ticketmaster's powerful grip on the lucrativ... More

By 2019, there should be a Disney SVOD service (in part thanks to Disney’s now majority stake in BAMTech) that will house children’s television content and exclusive first-runs... More

Virtual reality (VR) technology looks set to gain widespread adoption over the next five years, reaching an installed base of 256 million users worldwide with revenues of over $60b... More

Senior Software Engineer — San Jose, CA — Adobe Apps Developer — Los Angeles — Netflix Audio Manager — Burbank, CA — Pixelogic Click here to view all available jobs... More

FreeCast has unveiled its much-anticipated set-top box, which the company envisions as a low-cost, no-compromise replacement not just for the cable box, but expensive cable and sat... More

When Sky surprised subscribers with the launch of its new Devialet-made surround sound speaker late last month, it also dropped in news that Sky Q customers would soon enjoy enhanc... More

Facebook announced Wednesday that it has invented, well, television. The social network finally revealed the details behind a new video hub that it had been developing for months. ... More

FilmTrack has secured $5.5 million in Series C Funding from Insight Venture Partners. This additional investment will bring the total equity raised to over $40 million, allowing th... More