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EY, Anaplan Form Alliance to Help Organizations Deploy Connected Planning Platform for Business Transformation (MESA)

Ernst & Young announced an alliance to help large global organizations deploy a powerful business planning approach that brings together people, plans and data to drive increased s... More

Google Stadia Goes Live in November (Fortune)

Google Stadia, the company’s ambitious move into the $43 billion video game market, will launch this November, backed by some of the top publishers in the industry. While Google ... More

Infosys: AI, Machine Learning Can be Game-Changers for Sports Industry (Business Standard)

Digital technology has immense growth opportunities in the sports industry and if capitalised well, there is a huge potential to draw fans and players closer to a more customised a... More

Hollywood: Don’t Let 5G Madness Screw Up TV (Light Reading)

America's "race to 5G" is now running up against America's love of television. Specifically, some of the nation's biggest content companies are warning that the wireless industry's... More

How Cord Cutting is Driving Big Changes Across the Media Landscape (Fortune)

Streaming video services like Netflix, Hulu, and a planned rival from Apple will see their total U.S. revenue jump 64% over the next five years to almost $24 billion annually, bene... More

10 Things 5G Can Do That 4G Can’t (TechRadar)

It’s the next generation of mobile technology, set to leave 4G in the past, thanks to faster downloads, smoother streaming and more. But it’s not just speed that it has on its ... More

Will 5G Change the Way We Watch Sports? (SportsPro)

Though 5G may be a new concept to the consumer, technology companies and, principally, the big telecommunications firms have been wrapping their heads around it for some time now.... More

Facebook Plans June 18th Cryptocurrency Debut (TechCrunch)

Facebook is finally ready to reveal details about its cryptocurrency codenamed Libra. It’s currently scheduled for a June 18th release of a white paper explaining its cryptocurre... More

Ernst & Young, SailPoint to Help Organizations Transform How They Manage Digital Identities in the Workplace (MESA)

Ernst & Young and SailPoint announced they have entered into a strategic alliance agreement to help organizations transform how they manage the growing number of digital identities... More

Avanade CEO Adam Warby Steps Down; Pamela Maynard Appointed as His Successor (MESA)

Avanade announced that CEO Adam Warby will step down at the end of August. Avanade's board of directors has appointed Pamela Maynard, currently Avanade's president of Product and I... More

The Rise of AI: Learning from the Past (Digitally Cognizant Blog)

To ensure AI meets its full potential, we can learn from the successes and failures of previous technologies that have become must-haves in our lives.... More

Race Against the IndyCar Pros With Fan App From DXC, Team Penske (DXC Technology Blog)

It’s one thing to play a race car simulation game or to watch an IndyCar Series race on television. But what if you could enter your own car in a simulation and compete against p... More

Senate Takes Hard Look at Video Marketplace (MCN)

For the second time in as many days Congress dove into the video marketplace, in this case its change from appointment content on TV sets, to "how, where and when" content on a var... More

Disney+ Streaming Service Tracking Well Among Key Demographics Before Launch (THR)

The U.S. launch of new streaming service Disney+ is more than five months away, but American customers are already chomping at the bit. A new survey found that customer awareness o... More

Technicolor Ups the Intensity with Color, Sound in National Geographic’s ‘The Hot Zone’ (MESA)

Technicolor teams in Hollywood and Toronto provided start-to-finish post-production services for the chilling series based on the 1989 Ebola outbreak.... More

Avid Graphics Engine Propels Catalonia’s TV3 to High Ratings for European Elections 2019 Coverage (MESA)

Millions of citizens turned to TV3 “E19: Special Elections” broadcast on May 26 to learn the results from the 2019 European Parliamentary and municipal elections—and stayed t... More

Nancy Goldberg Named CMO of DTV and EVP of NAGRA’s Kudelski Group (MESA)

The Kudelski Group announced the appointment of Nancy Goldberg as Chief Marketing Officer, in charge of the sales and marketing of the Kudelski Group’s Digital TV division. She i... More

Fox Sports Will Stream Every Women’s World Cup Game in 4K (Engadget)

Fox Sports offered 4K streams for the 2018 FIFA World Cup last year, but in order to watch them, you had to own a HiSense TV. For the Women's World Cup that begins Friday in France... More

Featured Jobs: MarkLogic; GrayMeta; Teradici

Senior Partner Marketing Manager — NYC — MarkLogic Technical Solutions Engineer/East Coast — NYC — GrayMeta Director, Strategic Alliances, Google — San Francisco — Te... More

Microsoft, Oracle to Interconnect Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud (MESA)

Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. announced a cloud interoperability partnership enabling customers to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure a... More

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