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Brent Smith, president, CTO and co-founder of digital distribution tech company Evolution Digital, said that despite cord-cutting and the shift away from linear TV viewing, traditi... More

Capgemini has brought its international digital service design consultancy to Australia aimed at pooling its digital and user experience expertise into one client offering. Called ... More

Technicolor announced that beIN MEDIA Group has integrated Technicolor’s 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD) technology into its broadcast platform for the Middle East and North Afric... More

On Monday, Microsoft made headlines by plunking down $26 billion for LinkedIn. Now it's announcing its second acquisition of the week: For an undisclosed sum, the company has bough... More

Cable companies still oppose the Federal Communications Commission's attempt to open up the set-top box market but seem to have resigned themselves to accepting some form of regula... More

During a visit to Los Angeles in early June, Barry Diller addressed UTA agents and talked up the future of his streaming platform Vimeo. Just a few days later, on June 7, Vimeo CEO... More

Publishers are stampeding into video, lured by the hope that audiences and ad dollars will follow. But not only is video expensive and hard to do, a lot of people still prefer to g... More

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association and other parties opposed to the FCC's "unlock the box" set-top proposal are pitching a compromise "ditch the box" (#ditchthebox... More

The Recording Academy on Thursday announced changes to rules governing the Grammy Awards, including one that allows streaming-only titles to be considered for music’s most presti... More

Live streaming is coming to Broadway. The current revival of the musical “She Loves Me” will be streamed online June 30 at 8 p.m. EDT. Its $9.99 price tag is a bargain compared... More

Meerkat is back to try this video startup thing a second time. Meerkat, the former SXSW darling that abandoned its once-hyped livestreaming app earlier this year, has another app o... More

Watching sports online can be a real pain in the ass. Why? Because there’s no central place to find exactly what you’re looking for. It’s not like tuning into your cable guid... More

According to a new global study, virtual reality will play a decisive role in the future of OTT video, with a majority of OTT companies agreeing that the technology is here to stay... More

Alice LaPlante, CenturyLink: How times have changed. Customers waiting for new tires at a garage, for an appointment with their doctor or lawyer, or perhaps for friends at a restau... More

DirecTV is providing partial coverage of the U.S. Open golf championships in 4K resolution, offering live broadcasts during all four rounds from the tournament in Oakmont, which ge... More

Finding out what millennials – and all OTT viewers – want is proving more important by the day. New research from Parks Associates found that nearly a quarter of millennial bro... More

Apple is revamping tvOS after less than a year to make the operating system more user friendly to both viewers and developers. At Apple’s 2016 Worldwide Developer Conference in S... More

Xstream, a provider of over-the-top (OTT) solutions, today announced that they have entered into an exclusive Asia Pacific Licensing Agreement with OTT Premium, an IOT Group subsid... More

Moving LinkedIn to the Azure cloud, in part or in full, “could be a really important part of this deal,” said Rob Helm, managing vice president of research at Directions on Mic... More

European pay TV operator Sky is set to enhance its movie offering with the launch of subscription service Sky Cinema in the U.K. and Ireland on July 8. Sky Cinema is set to become ... More