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Bot Applications Stretch Beyond Media and Entertainment
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Dale Linemann, program manager for Microsoft has been working hands on with media and entertainment partners on bot technology for a while, addressing issues in their usage in ever... More
Human Element: Going Beyond the Role of ‘Vendor’ for Creative Services
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For nearly 15 years, Los-Angeles-based Human Element has handled most everything a media production requires, from VFX and motion graphics, to audio mixing and color correction. ... More
Dish Integrates TiVo Metadata Across Its Product Platforms
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Dish Network has integrated TiVo’s metadata products across Dish’s platforms, including its DVR, linear TV and video on demand, the companies announced July 31. The migratio... More
ZoneTV CEO: AI-Based TV Service Solves Major Industry Challenges
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NEW YORK – A new linear pay TV service on tap from content provider ZoneTV promises to make use of artificial intelligence (AI) in a unique way, one that could serve as a templat... More
Avid Technology: Helping Content Companies Tell Stories
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From its start as the first digital nonlinear editing system in the late 1980s to its work with every major studio and the world’s top broadcasters today, Avid has seen its techn... More
Ooyala to Share AI, Metadata Insights at MESA’s Microsoft Media & Entertainment Day
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Execs from online video tech company Ooyala will be on hand July 25 at the inaugural Microsoft Media & Entertainment Day, at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) on Eighth Avenue ... More
All Things Metadata Discussed July 25 at Metadata Madness East
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The benefits of asset management for content, automation of workflows, data integration across business units, and the latest in consumer analytics will all be discussed July 25 at... More
Is Premium VOD the Death of the Movie Theater? Not so Fast …
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By Natasha Carter, Vistex - Digital is king. OTT is the way to go. Mobile is the future! That’s what everyone is saying at least. If that’s true, does this mean the theater-... More
M&E Journal: Tackling Data to Create Smart Production
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By Matt Turner, CTO Media & Entertainment, MarkLogic Corporation - Not taking advantage of the data around content has never had bigger consequences for media organizations.... More
Salesforce CEO Touts Significance of AI at Tokyo Event
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The significance of artificial intelligence (AI) to Salesforce and multiple business sectors continues to grow, according to company CEO Marc Benioff. “The opportunity for ar... More
Salesforce Touts New Einstein Platform Services at AI Conference
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NEW YORK — Salesforce unveiled new Einstein Platform Services that it said at the second annual O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence (AI) conference June 28 will enable developers ... More
Salesforce’s Social Studio Joins YouTube Measurement Program
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Social Studio, Salesforce’s social media measurement service, has been certified as a launch partner for YouTube’s Measurement Program, a new service that looks to verify the Y... More
Sony Preps ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ VR Experience
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Ahead of the July 7 theatrical release of “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” the virtual reality arm of Sony Pictures is debuting a VR experience for the film, putting VR fans in the sh... More
Avanade Study: Intelligent Automation a Must for Businesses
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More than 30% of companies are already using some type of intelligent automation today, and to help jumpstart productivity and innovate, every business should be adding intelligent... More
Robert Half: Staffing and Adapting for Decades
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First founded in 1948, Robert Half is named after its founder and CEO. And in the nearly 70 years since, the company has had only one other CEO, current head Max Messmer. It’s... More
Composite Apps: A Different Take on Digital Consulting
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According to Long Nguyen, CEO of Irvine, Calif.-based Composite Apps, what makes the digital consulting firm stand out is its design-first approach for the technology solutions it ... More
Sohonet, Cyberinc Connect on New Cybersecurity Solution
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Media and entertainment connected cloud services firm Sohonet has tapped Cyberinc, a cybersecurity and access management solutions company, to offer a new, hosted solution for air-... More
M&E Journal: Managing Five States of Data for the M&E Market
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Jeff Greenwald, HGST - All media companies, whether a post house, a game developer, an advertiser, a CDN, a movie studio or a broadcaster wrestle with data in five states: Data ... More
M&E Journal: Unlock the Power of Your Archive With Cloud-Based Asset Management
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By Andy Hurt, Wazee Digital - It used to be that broadcast and cable networks commissioned or created programming, pushed it out over the air, and then sent it to an archive, r... More
WiTH Announces 2017 Leadership Awards Winners
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LOS ANGELES — Women in Technology: Hollywood (WiTH), an organization that serves as a catalyst for the advancement of women in entertainment technology, has announced the winners... More