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Next Up for Amazon’s Fire TV: Smart TVs, Cable Boxes, Maybe Even Cars (Fast Company)

Sandeep Gupta, Amazon’s vice president of Fire TV product development, said the Fire TV software will expand to more areas, including additional smart TVs, cable boxes, and possi... More

Intelligent Managed Services Among Key Trends Defining Network Service Provider Strategies for the Connected Home in 2019 (Technicolor Blog)

2019 will see more Network Service Providers around the world embrace “managed services” as a core strategy for generating new recurring revenues and competing with retail offe... More

Top 10 Ways Internet of Things, Blockchain Strengthen Supply Chains (Forbes)

Combining blockchain’s distributed ledger framework with the Internet of Things’ proven real-time monitoring and tracking capability is redefining supply chains. Blockchain sho... More

Your Data is Going Virtual (Adobe Blog)

When someone takes a “deep dive” into data, it has never been literal — until now. Data visualization is a growing field that, along with artificial intelligence (AI), is imp... More

Spotify’s Car View Helps Cut the Distractions for Drivers (Engadget)

Following Spotify's integration with Google Maps and Waze, the music streaming service is rolling out some in-car controls within its own app. 9to5Google has spotted a "Car View" m... More

Featured Jobs: BTI Studios; Hulu; Adobe

OTT Client Manager — London — BTI Studios Manager, Ad Operations — NYC — Hulu Sr. Manager, Platform Engineering — San Jose, CA — Adobe Click here to view all availab... More

SAS, Coursera Bridge Analytics Skills Gap with New SAS Programming Specialization (SCN)

SAS and Coursera today announced a new offering that will enable people to supercharge their careers with high-demand analytics skills. The SAS Programming Specialization is a star... More

Golden Globes 2019: 4 Reasons Streaming Won the Night (Forbes)

Will Kreth, Executive Director, EIDR: “Streaming companies in general have been looking for stickiness with their viewers and certainly their emphasis on original streamed conten... More

SAP’s Alicia Tillman: The Focus of B2B Marketing Has Gone From Decision-Makers to Consumers (Digiday)

B2B marketing is not a bubble. The rise of influencers and direct-to-consumer businesses have presented marketers with new challenges with whom to market to and which tools and cha... More

AWS Launches Fully-Managed Document Database Service (ZDNet)

Amazon Web Services has announced a fully-managed document database service, building the Amazon DocumentDB to support existing MongoDB workloads. The cloud giant said developers c... More

Salesforce’s Chris O’Hara Wants Marketers to Capitalize on the Data Revolution (Adweek)

If you want to learn about data, Chris O’Hara is the right person to ask. O’Hara, who leads global product marketing for Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s suite of data and audien... More

How Rapid Growth in 2018 Transformed Media Localization (Slator)

Media entertainment is a high-growth industry, driven in large part by the digitalization of content, as online streaming providers have begun to challenge the traditional models o... More

CES 2019: IBM Wants to Make Weather Forecasts 200% More Accurate (Fortune)

IBM has figured out a way to improve the way we predict weather by 200%. The Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System, or GRAF, will use IBM supercomputers to aggregat... More

Google Cloud, Tulip to Provide Machine Learning Solutions for Enterprise Retailers (MESA)

Tulip today announced a partnership with Google Cloud to improve store performance and sales associate effectiveness using Google Cloud's machine learning and analytics. By analyzi... More

Spotify Opens Discover Weekly Playlist to Advertisers, Beginning with New Microsoft Campaign (Billboard)

Spotify will begin allowing advertisers to sponsor its flagship Discover Weekly playlist, which generates a 30-song playlist of new music each week based on a user’s listening ha... More

Featured Jobs: Gracenote; Hulu; Technicolor

Big Data Software Engineer — Emeryville, CA — Gracenote Content Marketing Research Manager — Santa Monica, CA — Hulu Character Animator — London — Technicolor Click ... More

MicroStrategy 2019 Promises Voice Queries, Hyper-Targeted Intelligence (VentureBeat)

MicroStrategy today launched a new release of its longstanding business intelligence platform, MicroStrategy 2019, that comes with big promises. The company says that salespeople w... More

Cirque du Soleil Explores Augmented Reality with SAP Innovation Center Network (SCN)

Innovation has always been a keystone of Cirque du Soleil‘s enduring power to captivate the imagination of spectators. Now, with the help of the SAP Innovation Center Network, th... More

Designers Will Guide AI Into the Next Design Revolution (Adobe Blog)

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing the way products are built, but they’ll need designers’ guidance to reach their full potential.... More

How Modern Data Preparation Can Turbocharge Analytics (Verdict)

Across any industry, data is an imperative. Today’s business leaders understand that they compete on information as much as the goods and services that they provide. There is no ... More

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