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Fox Sports Pacts With Facebook to Live-Stream European Soccer Championships (Variety)

Facebook has scored more live sports for its growing entertainment play: Fox Sports reached a deal with the social giant to stream free matches from the UEFA Champions League — E... More

Google Hit With $2.7 Billion Fine by European Antitrust Monitor (NPR)

The European Commission has fined Google 2.42 billion euros ($2.72 billion) after finding that the company used its dominant search engine to drive people toward another Google pro... More

Why ‘Peak TV’ is Further Away Than We Think (Fortune)

How much tv is too much TV? A record 454 scripted original series aired on television in 2016, up from 420 in 2015 and a 71% increase from five years earlier, according to FX Netwo... More

How Netflix Wizardry Guarantees ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Streams Super Fast (Observer)

Net neutrality is the fight over whether or not internet service providers have the right to charge websites extra money for faster access to customers. The fight was largely drive... More

How Much Bigger Will Streaming Music Get – Some Projections for the Future (Forbes)

It’s no secret—nor surprise—that streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio and the select few others that have managed to survive the incredibly tou... More

One Huge Way the 4K HDR Xbox One X Benefits Gaming on Any TV (4K)

The Xbox One X has received major branding as THE console to get if you want to get your hands on serious 4K gamming chops with HDR and VR thrown in as extras for any 4K TV worth i... More

Featured Jobs: Dolby; GrayMeta; Pivotal

Sr. Product Manager, Mobile — San Francisco — Dolby Dev Ops Engineer — Thousand Oaks, CA — GrayMeta Senior Software Engineer — Chicago — Pivotal Click here to view a... More

Slack’s Quest to Make Work Easier (Fortune)

How will we work five to 10 years out? And what’s Slack’s role in that future?: Stewart Butterfield: "One way to describe it is that we are giving everyone a virtual chief of s... More

Adobe and Stanford Just Taught AI to Edit Videos (Digital Trends)

Just one minute of video typically takes several hours of editing — but Stanford and Adobe researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that partially autom... More

Avid Announces Availability of Avid NEXIS (MESA)

Avid today announced that the availability of Avid NEXIS, the world’s first and only software-defined storage platform for media. Powered by the MediaCentral® Platform, the most... More

Disney Digital Network Touts Synergies in New Structure (Variety)

Months after announcing that its Maker Studios division would no longer operate independently, Walt Disney Co. is putting those assets to good use inside its newly blended digital ... More

Google Unveils an AI Investment Fund. It’s Betting on an App Store for Algorithms (Wired)

Google just placed yet another bet on the idea that artificial intelligence will remake the world—and throw off wild profits. The company disclosed today that it has created a... More

VR for the Masses? That’s YouTube’s Goal with a New Format, New Tools (Fast Company)

YouTube thinks that immersive videos are the future, and that as viewers’ appetites for them grow, creators will respond to meet that appetite. But shooting high-quality virtu... More

China Halts Live Streaming on Weibo (Variety)

Chinese regulators have halted live streaming on Sina Weibo, one of China’s most popular social media sites, and two other platforms with immediate effect. The sites are accused ... More

At Cannes, the Great Gusher of Content Comes With Warning Signs (NYT)

The great geyser of our times, of course, is the hand-held connectivity that Steve Jobs tapped with his iPhone, and that Google, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat now so powerfully re... More

Vimeo Scraps Plans for SVOD Service (Deadline)

Vimeo, which had been gearing up to launch a subscription VOD service, will no longer proceed with the plans. The video-streaming service, owned by Barry Diller’s IAC, had been b... More

Featured Jobs: Pivotal; Adobe; OnPrem

Senior Software Engineer — Chicago — Pivotal Platform Software Engineer — San Francisco — Adobe Manager – Media & Entertainment — Los Angeles — OnPrem Click here t... More

Adobe CEO: Microsoft Partnership Will Automate Sales, Marketing with AI (CNBC)

Adobe Systems Chairman, President and CEO Shantanu Narayen sees a bright — and much more streamlined — future when it comes to his company's partnership with fellow tech titan ... More

Wazee Digital Mike Arthur on the Company’s Evolution and the Oncoming Onslaught of Sports Content (SVG)

What is Digital Media Hub, and how is it being used at major sports events?: "Digital Media Hub essentially offers a web portal at events that provides [property owners] with centr... More

Verizon Digital Network Steps Into Spotlight with Yahoo Deal Done (Variety)

Now that Verizon has finally completed its acquisition of Yahoo, the telco giant is looking to turn the focus on the sum of all its new parts. That was the message at Vidcon Thu... More

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