M+E News Headlines

If you were watching the first game of the World Series on Tuesday night, you might have noticed something different happen in the middle of the third inning: Instead of cutting to... More

Few industries have taken greater advantage of digital technology than entertainment. The benefits extend not just to production and exhibition, but also to the behind-the-scenes w... More

Mindtree, a leading digital transformation and technology services company, has been awarded the “Azure Innovation Partner of the Year 2016” by Microsoft. This award recognizes... More

GM is creating what it’s calling the “first cognitive mobility platform” in partnership with IBM, using the latter company’s Watson learning supercomputer. What that means ... More

HPE is in an interesting position. Now that it has shut down its Helion public cloud business, its main focus is on its private and managed cloud services, which center around the ... More

Users will still “be able to access and download your Vines,” the company says in a blog post. “We’ll be keeping the website online because we think it’s important to sti... More

Apple TV now has 1,600 apps devoted specifically to video content, so Apple is unveiling a product designed to make it easier to discover which TV shows and movies to watch. The ap... More

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), who had signaled he would be taking a careful look at the proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger, has provided some details... More

Verizon Communications has acquired Vessel, the internet video startup co-founded by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar. The telco is shuttering the Vessel service effective Oct. 31 and p... More

Facebook’s reliance on users manually flagging content, which requires heavy involvement from the site’s roughly 1.6 billion annual users each month, has prompted critics to sa... More

Streaming of TV and video content continues to rise and while conventional TV sets continue to dominate the way consumers view it, digital devices -- desktop/laptop computers, mobi... More

Media companies plan to ask U.S. regulators to force AT&T and Time Warner to share their trove of customer data if the telecom and content companies merge, fearing the combined beh... More

Wazee Digital's Andy Hurt will present at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Media and Entertainment Cloud Symposium. Joining Hurt will be Xarissa Holdaway, deputy editor for digital fo... More

On a future that’s split and fragmented between platforms: "There’s a kind of idealist who thinks we have to consolidate all these different platforms into one because they onl... More

IBM Chief Executive Virginia Rometty, speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s WSJDLive 2016 technology conference, pointed to the company’s new deal with General Motors Co. to pa... More

An unexpected rise in video customers, combined with expected strong revenue from NBC’s coverage of the Summer Olympics in Rio and the hit Universal Pictures animated theatrical ... More

Expert System announced that the Acciona Group’s Innovation division has chosen the Cogito semantic technology to make its strategic processes more efficient. Founded in Madrid, ... More

One of the gripes audiophiles have had with the Xbox One S is that despite the console's Ultra HD Blu-ray drive, is its lack of support for next-gen audio standards. That changes s... More

Virtual reality is touted daily as the next big thing, VR events are springing up across the country, and Sony’s first PlayStation VR has just launched to encouraging reviews. So... More

Microsoft today is announcing updates to its Azure IoT (Internet of Things) public cloud capabilities, along with new services to help business more widely deploy internet-connecte... More