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The folks at Dolby Laboratories have made public their plan to release Dolby Atmos Sound on Xbox One and Windows 10. While they’ve not yet been exact when it comes to timing and ... More

Amazon Prime Video has gone global. The streaming service is now available in more than 200 countries and territories, Amazon said Wednesday, putting it in direct competition with ... More

NeuLion today announced that subsidiary MainConcept GmbH has licensed multiple professional MainConcept codecs, such as AVC/H.264 Broadcast, MPEG-2 and DVCPRO HD, to MAGIX Software... More

Slack's quest to become a do-it-all chat app continues. The company is trotting out video calling support in the Mac, Windows and Chrome versions of its client, making it easy to s... More

TV ad buyers have state-of-the-art toolboxes, assisting them in negotiating deals for cross-platform audience-based media buys. Adobe argues that on the flipside, the tools used by... More

At the top of the agenda when President-elect Donald J. Trump meets with tech leaders on Wednesday afternoon: jobs, jobs and more jobs. Other topics will come up too, depending on ... More

After years of serving as a platform for media companies to distribute their own videos, Facebook is going to start buying shows of its own. The social network run by Mark Zuckerbe... More

Sony is attempting to strengthen its presence on social with the launch of an official PlayStation Giphy account that will be populated by a selection of YouTubers. The move will h... More

Walt Disney Co. is in talks with other major Hollywood studios to join its Disney Movies Anywhere service, which lets customers buy, watch and store their online film purchases at ... More

A number of technologies are going to make the AI that we see in film possible. In addition to supercomputing and cloud computing, technology such as robotics, computer vision, mac... More

FreeCast has announced a new partnership with UCapture to sell the online media guide service via the rewards shopping platform. A portion of the subscription revenues for each sal... More

Amazon’s quest to be a one-stop-shop for corporate customers continues. The retail giant’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, said Monday it has built a new feature call... More

Salesforce has delivered LiveMessage, ushering in the next generation of conversational service through its industry-leading Service Cloud. LiveMessage personalizes service communi... More

Premier League title contenders Liverpool and Chelsea will battle it out next month in the first ever live BT Sport match to be broadcast with Dolby Atmos sound and in UHD. BT is a... More

Music Choice is targeting IP-connected boxes with a new, streaming version of its service that will initially be available on TiVo-powered boxes from RCN and Grande Communications.... More

The streaming service will be available in Q1 2017 and AMC Networks, which has a joint venture with BBC for cable channel BBC America, has invested in the service with a non-voting... More

2017 will be the year the networks (and media companies) realize they are being disrupted by the very distributors of their content — the platforms. BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield ... More

Tencent Pictures, the film unit of China’s biggest internet company, is looking for acquisitions that can accelerate plans to make its own blockbusters instead of just writing ch... More

Competition within the crowded streaming marketed has led Deezer to break from the pack in pursuit of sponsorship, striking a deal with Manchester United in the hope that more peop... More

Looks like Jay Z’s Tidal may soon have competition in the world of high-fidelity streaming. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Neil Young has revealed that his music company ... More