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What Amazon Alexa’s ‘Answer Update’ Means for Marketers (GeoMarketing)
Amazon has confirmed the rollout of a new feature called “Answer Update,” which is designed to notify users when Alexa learns the answer to a question it didn’t know when the... More
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IBM-Maersk Blockchain Platform Adds 92 Clients as Part of Global Launch (Forbes)
Some of the largest supply chain companies in the world have begun the process of moving their work to a blockchain. A previously unnamed collaborative effort between the world’s... More
Avid Brings 3D Graphics to European Athletics Championships (SCN)
Avid today announced that European Athletics is relying on the award-winning Avid Maestro | Designer for advanced 3D graphic design and branding in the international television bro... More
Wipro, Genesys to Develop Solutions for Autonomous Vehicles (ETtech.com)
Wipro will develop the navigational and control technology for autonomous system and smart mobility companies. As part of a pact between the companies, Wipro and Genesys first work... More
Adobe Appoints Sales and Data Vet as Head of Audience Manager, Americas (Adobe Blog)
Today, marketers and advertisers recognize that understanding their customers is fundamental to crafting standout customer experiences. Data management platforms (DMP) have become ... More
Microsoft Introduces Ethereum Proof-of-Authority Algorithm on Azure (Cointelegraph)
Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure has introduced a proof-of-authority (PoA) algorithm on its Ethereum (ETH) blockchain product, according to a blog post Aug. 7. The new Ethereum n... More
Amazon’s Alexa Debuts Answer Updates to Respond Later to Questions It Can’t Answer Immediately (VentureBeat)
Answer Updates will be rolled out to Alexa-enabled devices over the course of the coming week. Say “Alexa, turn on Answer Update” to receive alerts, and Alexa will say “If yo... More
Skype Chats are the Latest Place to Listen to Spotify (Engadget)
Now that Spotify is on Apple's iMessage and Facebook's Messenger, the company will soon empower you to share and preview songs inside another messaging service, Skype. If you're a ... More
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Viacom, NYT Share How They ‘Gamify’ the Data Experience (SCN)
Three experts from three very different media and entertainment companies gathered July 24 for a panel discussion on how to use data and analytics to attract and retain their custo... More
EIDR Content Identifiers Now Available for Individual Registration (SCN)
The Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR), the source of universal identifiers for digital distribution of movie and television assets, and The Title Registrar, a provider of da... More
Adobe Adds LiveRamp Matches to Advanced TV Advertising (B&C)
LiveRamp and Adobe have made a deal integrating LiveRamp’s IdentityLink across Adobe’s Advertising Manager, enabling addressable TV advertising using first or third party data.... More
How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Sales (Raconteur)
Of all corporate functions, sales by its very nature is surely the most people-focused. While it may no longer involve quite as much face-to-face interaction as it once did, sellin... More
Smart City Spending to Hit $158B by 2022 (IT Pro)
Smart city initiatives will attract huge amounts of investment this year, IDC estimates, with the value spent on such schemes topping $158 billion by 2022. Visual surveillance, adv... More
The 4 Hottest Tech Trends That are Transforming the World in 2018 (ZDNet)
No. 1 Artificial intelligence: The biggest problem with AI today isn't that it's too smart. In fact, it's too rudimentary to be much use in many cases. One of the dirty little secr... More
AI’s Next Great Challenge: Understanding the Nuances of Language (HBR)
Language is a uniquely human capability and the manifestation of our intelligence. But through AI — specifically natural language processing (NLP) — we are providing machines w... More
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Metadata Harvested with AI Creates New Revenue Opportunities (TV Technology)
T Shobhana, Prime Focus Technologies: Most content owners would agree that manual tagging and cataloging of assets is a time consuming and expensive activity that can stymy the use... More
Connecting Data, People, Plans Towards an Agile Supply Chain in the Digital Age (Wipro Blog)
The traditional process of sequential and linear supply chain will not meet the dynamic needs of business today. Customer behavior, global financial situations and political scenar... More