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Spotify’s Playlists Can Now Predict Which Songs You’ll Want to Add (FastCompany)

Spotify is experimenting with a feature called Playlist Extender that uses an algorithm to automatically suggest songs when you're creating playlists. And here's the crazy part: I... More

The Data of Design: How Analytics Opens New Doors for Embedded System Design (Information Age)

Designers tasked with developing intelligent products and services are increasingly adopting analytics as a means to process massive amounts of business and engineering data in ord... More

OTT Isn’t Just for the Young (Multichannel News)

When the words over-the top and streaming video are uttered, “millennials” typically isn’t far behind. After all, the younger set, which tends to include a small-but-growing ... More

YuMe, StickyADS.tv Announce Strategic Partnership (SCN)

Digital video brand ad company YuMe has announced a strategic partnership with Paris-based video exchange software provider StickyADS.tv, with YuMe’s demand side platform (DSP) Y... More

Audio Fingerprinting Being Used to Track Web Users, Study Finds (TechCrunch)

A wide-scale study of online trackers carried out by researchers at Princeton University has identified a new technique being used to try to strip web users of their privacy, as we... More

MarkLogic Powers up Security, Integration Features in Version 9 (SiliconANGLE)

MarkLogic is previewing version 9 of its namesake NoSQL database at its MarkLogic World conference in San Francisco this week, touting new data integration, security and manageabil... More

Why Hackers Love To Hit Small Businesses — And How To Stop Them (Forbes)

Teresa Meek, CenturyLink: Getting hacked is a traumatic experience for any business, but small companies have an additional worry: What if the hackers use you as a back door to an ... More

Why Image Recognition is about to Transform Business (TechCrunch)

At Facebook’s recent annual developer conference, Marc Zuckerberg outlined the social network’s artificial intelligence (AI) plans to “build systems that are better than peop... More

How Brands Are Turning Analog Customer Experiences Into Digital Moments (Momentology)

Even as we move closer to a future with smart roads, cities, and theme parks, there are some customer experiences – like drive-throughs, in-store retail and buying a car – that... More

Vubiquity to Utilize SecureMedia Platform to Pre-encrypt Video Content (SCN)

Vubiquity is using ARRIS’s content protection solution, SECUREMEDIA™. This will allow Vubiquity to pre-encrypt its vast video portfolio, including all electronic-sellthrough (E... More

NAB 2016: Microsoft Wants Companies to Take Video Pulse to Measure Engagement (VideoInk)

At the 2016 National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced that it is releasing an open preview of Video Pulse, its new digital content rating tool tha... More

Why the Washington Post is Building Chatbots to Deliver the News (Digiday)

When Microsoft’s Tay, the artificially intelligent bot, was taught to be a racist Holocaust-denier by the online masses, traditional publishers got a free lesson in what can go w... More

Vevo’s Recommendations Get more Personalized, Thanks to Integrations with Spotify, Twitter and YouTube (TechCrunch)

Music streaming service Vevo has been working to extract itself from YouTube’s shadow over the past several months, despite the two networks’ symbiotic relationship...... More

Expert System Establishes Advanced Cognitive Computing Research Labs in the US (SCN)

Expert System has announced that it has expanded its footprint in the United States with the addition of two new research and development labs, located in the Washington, DC and Si... More

Podcasts Try Dynamic Ad Insertion (AdExchanger)

Is dynamic ad insertion finally coming to podcasting? New audience measurement guidelines released Thursday by a collection of public radio companies address one of the big concern... More

Infor, Kurt Salmon Team Up to Bring Next Generation Retail Solutions Into the Social and Digital Age (MW)

Infor and Kurt Salmon plan to work together to reduce the need for customization and are focusing on delivering solutions that generate significant speed to value through a cloud s... More

Digital Storage Projections for 2016 (Forbes)

Cloud storage growth dominates projections for 2016 digital storage. According to Scality’s Jerome Lecat, “By the end of 2016, 80% of SMBs will host some or most of their busin... More

NexGuard Integrates Watermarking in ALi STB Chips (DigitalTVEurope.net)

Civolution-owned forensic watermarking speclialist NexGuard has teamed up with chipset giant ALi to integrate its technology in ALi set-top box chipsets. According to Civolution, t... More

Rockfish Integrates Digimarc Software for Faster Mobile Product Scanning (PRN)

Digimarc, the inventor of the Digimarc Discover platform featuring the Digimarc Barcode for automatically identifying and interacting with virtually any media, announced that its s... More

Infor announces Proof of Delivery for End-to-End Distribution Management (YF)

Infor, a leading provider of beautiful business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, today announced Infor Distribution Proof of Delivery (PoD), a new appl... More

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