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Synamedia Appoints Deepak Bhatia as General Manager, India (MESA)

Synamedia announced that it has appointed Deepak Bhatia as General Manager and Head of Sales, India. Deepak will drive Synamedia’s business in India with responsibility for the c... More

Apple to Add 4K Netflix Support to Macs (DTE)

In what will surely be a welcome update to Mac users, Netflix may finally stream in 4K UHD on Apple computers with the upcoming Big Sur operating system.... More

Sky Deutschland Introduces New Price, Package Structure (BTN)

Sky Deutschland is reshaping its subscription prices and packages in Germany and Austria. Notably, for the first time Sky customers will be able to choose whether they want to sign... More

NAGRA NexGuard Forensic Watermarking Integrates With AWS (MESA)

Content protection and multiscreen TV solutions firm NAGRA has announced API integration of its NexGuard forensic watermarking technologies into Elemental MediaConvert, the file-ba... More

IBM Donates ‘Trusted AI’ Projects to Linux Foundation AI (ZDNet)

IBM announced it's donating a series of open-source toolkits designed to help build trusted AI to a Linux Foundation project, the LF AI Foundation. As real-world AI deployments inc... More

Video Marketing During COVID-19 (Kaltura Blog)

As we continue to deal with growing concerns around COVID-19, organizations worldwide are facing tremendous challenges, from moving their entire operation online and securing busin... More

Will the COVID-19 Crisis Accelerate a Shift in Tech Talent Out of London? (CW)

As the coronavirus pandemic has forced firms to work more flexibly, threatening traditional large office spaces in London, will tech talent make a long-term shift away from the cap... More

ViacomCBS Content Added to Sky Store (DTE)

ViacomCBS has agreed a distribution deal with Sky to bring its pay TV brands on the Sky Store. This deal will see programming from MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon purchasable ... More

iPlayer Sees Record Month in May With 570M Requests (DTE)

The BBC iPlayer has continued to flourish during the coronavirus pandemic as Brits continue to be stuck inside, with the broadcaster announcing that May has become the service’s ... More

Parks: OTT Service Churn Rate Hit 41% in Q1 (Next TV)

The average industry churn rate for OTT services in the first quarter rose to 41% vs. 35% in the first quarter of 2019, according to a new report published by research company Park... More

Mobile Operators to Gain SVOD Subs (BTN)

Smartphone gross SVOD subscriptions for 138 countries will double between 2019 and 2025 to 170 million, according to the latest report published by Digital TV Research. The total w... More

Keywords Studios Acquire Game Engineering Specialist Coconut Lizard (MESA)

Game development specialist Keywords Studios has acquired Gateshead, UK-based Coconut Lizard, a fellow game development services firm touted for its Unreal Engine gaming work. (mor... More

London Named One of the World’s Leading Startup Ecosystems (Finextra)

London has one of the world’s most favourable ecosystems to build a globally successful startup according to new data. The UK capital improved on its joint third place in 2019, t... More

How IBM is Changing Commercial High-Performance Computing (eWeek)

Big Blue, long a leader in creating some of the industry’s fastest and most powerful supercomputers, is developing new innovations that will make world-class HPC more accessible,... More

GDPR’s Two-Year Review Flags Lack of ‘Vigorous’ Enforcement (TechCrunch)

It’s more than two years since a flagship update to the European Union’s data protection regime moved into the application phase. Yet the GDPR has been dogged by criticism of a... More

Five Considerations for Creating a Contactless Workplace (Digitally Cognizant Blog)

To ensure a zero-touch workplace for remote and in-office workers, businesses need to balance advanced support technologies with new best practices.... More

Over Half of UK Households Own a Smart TV (TVB Europe)

Smart TVs can now be found in 51 per cent of UK households according to figures from Ofcom. In its annual Online Nation report, the organisation found the number of households with... More

Investment Pours Into UK Tech Companies (SME)

Equity investment in the UK’s tech businesses increased by 27 per cent in 2019 to £4.0bn, the highest amount since the series began in 2011, according to the British Business Ba... More

Disney to Close UK Channels (BTN)

Disney+ is to become the exclusive home of content from Disney after it failed to reach agreement over the continued carriage of its linear channels with either Sky or Virgin. Disn... More

Darktrace’s Honored for Email Security Product (MESA)

Darktrace announced that its AI-powered email security technology, Antigena Email, has been selected as Application Security Winner in the 2020 Fortress Cyber Security Awards. (mor... More

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