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What are the major areas of focus these days? What are you spending your time on? Stewart Butterfield: "Making Slack a good solution for a broader array of businesses. Here I speci... More

The myriad ways in which video and audio impact our brains and bodies have long been studied by academia. But that research isn’t only taking place in university labs: at Dolby L... More

Beyond the political underpinning, the fake news agenda and the plethora of VR experiences, the one technology to really know about while at SXSW in Austin this year, was artificia... More

Disney is working on how it can use robotics and artificial intelligence to help its storytellers to bring to life its many much-loved characters within its theme parks to engage w... More

The podcast's blessing may also be its curse: it wasn’t invented to be profitable. A popular early term for podcasting was “audioblogging,” which alludes to its DIY origins. ... More

Facebook is hiring dozens of people for its secretive new hardware division, which is working on at least four projects concurrently, Business Insider reports. The division could s... More

ATSC 3.0, IPTV and the OTT explosion. Late last month, the FCC approved the ATSC 3.0 roll-out, but clarified that adoption of ATSC 3.0 will be voluntary, and that broadcasters must... More

Of all the various innovations we've seen in this console generation, it may be the business model changes that have the most lasting impact on the games industry. Though originall... More

Will Smith’s next movie -- part cop flick, part sci-fi -- has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster except one. When “Bright” is released later this year it’ll be play... More

For many, 2016 was the year augmented reality (AR) became real. Pokemon Go took over the world last summer, superimposing 3D creatures anywhere in the world players wanted to point... More

FreeCast is announcing today that they've nearly completed the months-long rollout of their new universal "SmartGuide" UI to users of the company's flagship SelectTV service, and w... More

Oracle announced that Hearst has selected Oracle Cloud to provide its multitude of businesses with a common innovation platform to accelerate business growth and global expansion. ... More

In the last few years, and with greater intensity in the last 12 months, people started paying for online content. They are doing so at an accelerating pace, and on a dependable, r... More

Twitter wants to make it as easy as possible for companies to livestream video on its platform. According to a report from The Information, the company is set to announce next week... More

Russia's culture ministry has introduced a requirement of mandatory exhibition licenses for all movies and television series offered by online video services in a move that industr... More

Sanford Bernstein media analyst Todd Juenger initiated coverage on Netflix Thursday with an “outperform” rating, adding that the subscription video on demand pioneer is the anc... More

Spotify is to make some music available only to paying customers in a major change to its service. Until now, all music on the service has been available to both free and paid user... More

Owen Hurley, VP of Creative for Animation and Games, Technicolor: Several trends are coming together. Immersive experiences like virtual reality are, of course, big. 2017 started o... More

Video: In the second installment of RSG Media's Leadership Series, Glenn Oakley, EVP of Media Technology, Production and Operations at Discovery Communications, sits with RSG.tv to... More

Unbeknownst to most viewers, many networks and other providers have substantial libraries of programming available for free. It’s not always their latest offerings, but there’s... More