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IBM, Intel Help Fund San Diego Blockchain Lab (Government Technology)

Tech giants are funding the launch of a research lab at UC San Diego to unravel the mysteries around blockchain, a new way of writing software that’s sweeping industries around t... More

Featured Jobs: Netflix; MarkLogic; DXC Technology

Director Partner Marketing, UK — London — Netflix Senior Vertical Marketing Manager — London — MarkLogic Senior Developer, Forward Deployable Architect — Dallas — DX... More

Supply Chain Consulting Agency Remodus Joins EIDR (MESA)

The Entertainment Identifier Registry Association (EIDR), the source of universal identifiers for digital distribution of movies and television assets, announced today that Remodus... More

Adobe Launches ‘Wireframe’ Podcast in Partnership with Gimlet Creative (Dexigner)

Adobe has announced a new podcast in partnership with Gimlet Creative exploring the biggest questions facing UX and UI designers today. Launching on October 9, Wireframe will discu... More

How Technicolor is Exploring Global Ultra Broadband Trends, Emerging Opportunities for Network Service Providers (MESA)

The inevitable growth of ultra broadband services-based smart gateways that interact with intelligent home devices using Internet of Things (IoT) technologies is redefining the co... More

PwC Teams with Cred to Build Trust in Cryptocurrency Ecosystem (VentureBeat)

PwC, one of the biggest accounting and professional services firms in the world, is teaming up with cryptocurrency startup Cred to develop standards that will build trust in the wi... More

How to be a TV Hero in the Digital Denouement (NAGRA Blog)

Digital transformation is likely the critical innovation vector for operators. 84 percent of pay-TV executives expect competition for paid-for video services to increase dramatical... More

Apple May Enlist UK Telecom Giant BT to Jumpstart its TV Strategy (Engadget)

Apple has been laying the groundwork for its entry into TV services for a while. Now, however, it might recruit one of the UK's largest telecoms to help out. The Daily Telegraph so... More

3 out of 4 Americans Share Netflix, Amazon, Uber Accounts (CNBC)

As most kindergarteners know, sharing is caring. That's also true for grownups, particularly those with a Netflix account. Altogether, 3 out of 4 Americans are sharing streaming, s... More

Facebook Tries its Hand at Hardware with Portal (TechCrunch)

Portal is not Facebook’s Echo Show. Call it a case of convergent evolution, wherein two companies arrived at similar looking products after approaching hardware from different an... More

Netflix to Create Production Hub in Albuquerque, Spend $1 Billion Over Next Decade (USA Today)

Netflix has chosen New Mexico as the site of a new U.S. production hub and is in final negotiations to buy an existing multimillion-dollar studio complex on the edge of the state�... More

Disney-Fox Film Structure Plan: Alan Horn Atop Divisions, Streaming is Priority (Deadline)

Now that Disney has set the hierarchy of Fox TV executives who’ll be part of the merged entities, next comes the film division. Alan Horn will be top dog. Reporting to him will b... More

Featured Jobs: PwC; Cognizant; Wasabi

IT Delivery Manager — Tampa, FL — PwC Senior DevOps Engineer — Juno Beach, FL — Cognizant Quality Assurance Engineer — Boston — Wasabi Click here to view all availab... More

Microsoft Will Roll Out Video Game Streaming Service in 2019 (Fortune)

Microsoft is joining the streaming revolution, announcing plans to launch a game streaming service through its Xbox console. Project xCloud will let players stream Xbox One games t... More

Walmart’s Vudu Orders MGM Shows for Free, Ad-Supported Video Service (Variety)

Walmart, America’s biggest bricks-and-mortar retailer, is taking its first crack at original entertainment. Vudu, the company’s streaming-video arm, has struck a partnership w... More

Facebook’s New Gadget Is a Video-Chat Screen With a Camera That Follows You (NYT)

Since 2004, Facebook has said it wants to bring the world closer together. To accomplish that goal, the company has relied mostly on the web and smartphone apps. But software is n... More

Is Your Organization Ready for EIM Managed Services? (OpenText Blog)

Moving to managed services for your Enterprise Information Management (EIM) systems is a major step for any organization. A great deal has been written about how to select the idea... More

IBM Watson Gives Intelligent Ads Wider Release, Expands Targeting (MarTech Today)

t’s a good thing IBM’s Watson super-smart computer doesn’t need to sleep. Because his parent company is making him work all the time. The Jeopardy winner now has three new j... More

Cloud Native Computing Grows by 200% (DXC Technology)

Over the last few years the way you moved applications from your data center to the cloud was lift-and-shift, refactor, or migrate to containers. The latter has gotten a kick in th... More

Seven Reasons Broadcasters are Flipping the Data Pipeline on its Head (Western Digital Blog)

Film, broadcast and CDN media workflows are incredibly complex. And they are getting even more so. With higher resolutions, greater ratios, and increased number of deployed cameras... More

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