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Apple Music Lyrics Smarten Up with Genius (WSJ)

Apple Music is about to get a little better with words. The No. 2 music-streaming service world-wide will now display lyrics drawn from popular online music encyclopedia Genius. Un... More

The Growing Importance of Embedded Analytics in Business Applications (Salesforce Blog)

Customers expect analytics to be a native part of the daily business workflow. For example, when a user logs in to Salesforce and navigate to a page related to my work, they see bo... More

Western Digital Invests in Flash Storage Startup Kaminario (CTech)

Western Digital Capital, the strategic investment arm of California-based computer data storage company Western Digital Corp., led a $25 million investment in Israeli flash storage... More

How AI is Helping Amazon Become a Trillion-Dollar Company (Fast Company)

At the scale that Amazon processes orders, peak efficiency is essential. Magnified over millions upon millions of orders a year, even a second or two saved per order makes a huge b... More

Featured Jobs: Box; NSS Labs; Adobe

Data Infrastructure Engineer — Redwood City, CA — Box Software Engineer/Analytics — Austin — NSS Labs Head of Search Science & Analytics — San Jose, CA — Adobe Click... More

New SAP Data Hub Accelerates Trusted Data Discovery (SCN)

SAP announced the latest release of SAP Data Hub, which helps build agile, data-driven pipeline applications that tap a single, logical data set representing an entire enterprise. ... More

Top 3 Roles Driving a Majority of AI Projects (Forbes)

We know that the ability of AI to drive organizational growth, innovate internal workflows, automate tedious and mundane jobs, enrich customer experience, and meet business goals i... More

5 Keys to Effective Digital Transformation (CIO Review)

Pam Maynard, Avanade: 1. Start with data. Companies should first think about what they want to accomplish with their next digital innovation or large-scale transformation. Is it a... More

SDI Media CEO Howorth on How Streaming Services Reset the Bar in Media Localization (Slator)

Los Angeles headquartered SDI Media is the largest media localization company globally and is the highest ranking non-generalist language service provider in the index. According t... More

The War Over Music Copyrights (TechCrunch)

The surge in music streaming means a surge in income for those who own the copyrights to songs, and the growth of entertainment in emerging markets, growing use in digital videos, ... More

Data Analysts, Scientists Top the In-Demand Jobs List for 2022 (MicroStrategy Blog)

In 2012, data scientist was named the sexiest job of the 21st century. As we head toward 2022, that admiration hasn’t waned. The World Economic Forum’s 2018 Future of Jobs Repo... More

How AI is Transforming the Localization Landscape (Prime Focus Technologies Blog)

The most significant impact today within the Localization space is in the realms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). There are machines and software availabl... More

Facial Recognition Goes Mainstream (WSJ)

Entertainment venues want to speed customers through the gate by scanning their faces. Airlines are looking to smooth out passengers’ travel by letting them check bags and do oth... More

Shoppers Don’t Want to Type if They Can Just Talk (Tech HQ)

Smart voice assistants have come a long way since Apple first introduced Siri back in 2011. Today, voice assistants can perform various functions, and live on various platforms fro... More

The Next Generation of Wireless Networking Will be Called WiFi 6 (Engadget)

The new approach is designed to help manufacturers, operators and users more easily market and understand the presence of advanced WiFi capabilities in their devices, so companies ... More

Featured Jobs: ESPN; Casting Networks; BAMTECH Media

Senior Analyst, Data Platform Product — Bristol, CT — ESPN Manager Customer Success — LA — Casting Networks Data Engineer — NYC — BAMTECH Media Click here to view al... More

Metadata Harvested With AI Creates New Revenue Opportunities (Prime Focus Technologies Blog)

Most content owners would agree that manual tagging and cataloging of assets is a time consuming and expensive activity that can stymy the usefulness and profitability of media ass... More

Indonesia’s PT Astra Graphia Tbk Taps MicroStrategy Mobile for Agile Decision Making (SCN)

MicroStrategy today announced that PT Astra Graphia Tbk (Astragraphia), a printing and digital services provider, has chosen MicroStrategy for its comprehensive product functionali... More

ODH and the Future of Data Integration (MarkLogic Blog)

We’ve talked a lot about data integration mistakes of the past and how the Operational Data Hub (ODH) can help solve those challenges.But if technology has taught us anything, it... More

Salesforce Gets Into the ID Graph Game with Launch of Customer 360 (AdExchanger)

Salesforce on Tuesday introduced Salesforce Customer 360, a unified customer ID that connects profile data across its Sales, Services, Commerce and Marketing cloud product suites. ... More

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