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Golden State Warriors, Accenture Team to Reimagine Audience Experience

The Golden State Warriors and Accenture have teamed up to reinvent the fan and community experience. Accenture has been named the Official Technology Innovation Partner for the War... More

Deluxe Helps Create Pearl Harbor VR Experience

The day that will live in infamy can now be re-lived in virtual reality. Deluxe VR has partnered with Time’s Life VR, the HTC Vive and semiconductor company AMD to create “R... More

Box CEO: Company Made ‘Solid Progress’ on Main Objectives in Q3

Box achieved a few significant milestones in the third quarter, ended Oct. 31, as the company continued to focus on its three main objectives of delivering new products to further ... More

Verizon Enterprise Using Data to Make Sense of Holiday Retail

According to the Consumer Technology Association, 116 million American adults — or half the U.S. adult population — will be buying technology during the Black Friday week Nov. ... More

Teradata Bolsters Managed Services, Product Offerings for Users of AWS

Teradata has announced the immediate availability of Teradata Consulting and Managed Services for Amazon Web Services, increasing the company's ability to accelerate positive busin... More

M&E Journal: Behold the Future Locker

By Chris Wagner, NeuLion - The premium video digital entertainment market has evolved beyond all recognition over the last decade from side-loads to UV to 4K streaming and beyo... More

Dun & Bradstreet’s Taylor: Aggressive Adoption of Standardized Metadata is Needed

NEW YORK — Data infrastructure in the media and entertainment (M&E) industry today simply isn’t prepared for the future of programmatic everything, anticipatory media place... More

M&E Journal: Local Relationships: The Bedrock of Global Success

By Teresa Phillips, Senior VP, V2Solutions - In January, many of us were surprised by Netflix’s announcement at CES that it had launched its streaming television service in 19... More

Deluxe’s Sfera Acquisition Results in New ‘Localization’ Division

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Oct. 31 announced it will acquire cloud-based localization platform and distributed services firm Sfera, including both Sfera Studios and Sfera ... More

Cast & Crew: Data Digitization Starts with the Script

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Just how early does data play a role in the production lifecycle of a feature film or television show? Try the script. That’s the perspective of the mana... More

M&E Journal: Make More of Measurement: Ad Optimization for Increased Revenue

By Colleen Quinn, Marketing Director, Teradata Audience measurement has long been a labored and imprecise exercise in “getting to know you” by broadcasters and cable network... More

Teradata’s Lee: Analytics, Data Key Tools to Understanding ‘Consumer Journey’

Collecting and effectively making use of analytics and data are important tools that media and entertainment (M&E) companies can use to understand their consumers and deliver the c... More

M&E Journal: Wanted: Cable for the Web

By William Mobley, President & CEO, FreeCast - The media industry is facing a dilemma unlike anything it’s ever seen before. The business model upon which cable TV is built is... More

IBM CFO: Company’s Seeing ‘Good Progress’ with Watson Platform

IBM is making “good progress” with its Watson cognitive technology platform, and sees it as a “long-term investment” that will continue to grow as it’s expanded to additi... More

Box’s Patel: Business Models are ‘Shifting Quite Dramatically’

Companies are facing significant challenges today, whether they are in the technology sector or not, according to Jeetu Patel, SVP of Box Platform and the company’s chief strateg... More

Vast Media VR Round-Up: Westworld, Sky Make Waves

Here’s a run-down of recent virtual reality-related entertainment items via Berlin-based research and consulting company Vast Media. To help promote its highly praised sci-fi ... More

Dell EMC, Western Digital Help Launch Interconnect Group

Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Western Digital and IBM are among members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) that have banded together to form t... More

Survey: Tech CEOs Investing in Talent, Machine Learning

Professional services company KPMG interviewed 138 CEOs in the U.S. tech industry and found a pattern: automation and machine learning are top priorities, as tech companies realize... More

M&E Journal: Big Data Lets You Read Your Customer’s Mind — Now What?

By Thomas Siegman, RSG Media Systems - Data analytics is upending the media industry, helping companies buy, schedule, promote, and distribute content better, and to boost reven... More

Salesforce Buys Krux

Salesforce continued its string of acquisitions Oct. 3, spending an estimated $700 million for data management platform company Krux, giving Salesforce technology that will help it... More

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