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NBC has the U.S. TV rights to the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Aug. 5-21), but that won’t be keeping content from the games off of YouTube. The Google-owned video hosting p... More

People who only watch BBC shows on catchup will be legally required to have a TV licence from 1 September, when new legislation to close the so-called “iPlayer loophole” comes ... More

Microsoft Azure has been selected by NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, to provide cloud encoding and hosting with video workflows for NBC Olympics’ production of ... More

It’s ironic that most technology conferences still offer the same antiquated, cattle-call experience as Registration Day at college for the class of 1983, with thousands of smart... More

Behind the scenes at Salesforce, it's all about agile approaches -- that is, everyone working in tandem on multiple iterations on improvements and new releases. Over the years, the... More

What if Hollywood’s most profitable summer movie came not from a comic book, a bestselling novel or a video game, but from a viral video on YouTube? After the success of the tiny... More

Comcast is currently testing the Xi5, the MSO’s first set-top box with support for High Dynamic Range (HDR), in employee trials and is still targeting customer deployments later ... More

MPEG-2 compression has proven itself to be a workhorse for the television industry, enabling DTV multicasting channel count to grow with successive generations of encoders. In its ... More

Like pretty much every other company in the world, the search giant is working an angle for the Rio events. Google will be utilizing a good number of its alphabetic offerings to ma... More

Twitter will live-stream “Suicide Squad” red-carpet coverage from the film’s premiere Monday in New York — marking its first live-video deal in the entertainment space. The... More

With Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video collectively generating tens of millions of subscribers, it’s safe to assume most domestic households subscribe to one or more of the se... More

A few years ago, it was crazy to imagine social media companies paying anyone for being popular on their sites; the idea was for everyone to use them for free in exchange for givin... More

IBM saw from the get-go that the cloud was going to cause a major disruption to its business. "We knew it was a massive opportunity for IBM, but not in a way that necessarily fit o... More

Infor today announced Infor LN 10.5 has been released for customers globally. Infor LN 10.5 is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that combines beautiful software with ro... More

Amazon plans to double down on its video content for the rest of the year as it goes to war against Netflix in the online video streaming space. During its second quarter earnings ... More

Pirates have largely shifted from peer-to-peer downloads to illegal streaming-video sites for film and television content, according to a new study. In 2015, out of a total 78.5 bi... More

BTI recently started building new state-of-the-art studios in Bangkok, Thailand, and plan to expand into multiple Asian countries in the coming years. In his new role YC Sun will ... More

Dolby delivered an impressive quarterly performance with decent top and bottom-line growth. The company's massive scale of operations coupled with a strong base of premium electron... More

Facebook announced off-the-charts Q2 ’16 earnings yesterday, including $2 billion in net income, double what it was just 6 months ago. Monthly active users increased to 1.71 bill... More

For the first time, CBS has disclosed how many subscribers it has for its over-the-top offerings. CBS CEO Les Moonves, speaking on the company's earnings call Thursday afternoon, s... More