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Microsoft continued its aggressive artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives Sept. 29, announcing the creation of the Microsoft AI and Research Group. The news came only one day aft... More

OpenText has announced the latest version of OpenText Exstream. The new release offers the fastest, most reliable communications production engine to enable digital transformation ... More

When Michael Smith, professor of information technology and marketing at Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III College, takes the stage Oct. 18 for the HITS Fall: Digipa... More

By Steven L. Canepa and Chad M. Andrews, IBM Video is the most popular form of content consumption on the planet, generating behemoth revenues through traditional business model... More

Culver City, Calif.-based media and entertainment quality-control specialist 3rd i QC announced Sept. 20 that it was opening a dedicated virtual reality and augmented reality QC sp... More

At its Teradata Partners Conference in Atlanta this week, the company debuted what it’s calling the “world’s most powerful analytic database,” Teradata Everywhere. Keepi... More

Before its anticipated sci-fi series “Westworld” lands Oct. 2, HBO went all out with a new promotion for the series: a unique web site that does more than just tout the show, a... More

Teradata has agreed with SAS to become a global authorized reseller of SAS® data management and analytics software. The agreement enables customers to quickly assess, deploy and i... More

While dozens of members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) are at this week’s IBC conference in Amsterdam, announcing new technologies and new partnerships... More

Todd Collart, GM and SVP of Deluxe Digital Distribution, has been to his fair share of IBC conferences. And he sees this week’s Sept. 8-13 confab in Amsterdam offering more than... More

The ice at TD Garden, home of the Boston Bruins, is about to get cooler. The Boston Bruins organization, one of the original six teams of the National Hockey League, along with TD ... More

Virtual reality (VR) apps, an online video series from Comcast’s NBC Universal and Fandango in which Olympics athletes talk about the movies that have inspired them, and an onlin... More

Rovi debuted a new version of its entertainment discovery platform i-Guide, upgrading it with a new user interface and high-def support. Rovi also announced that it’s already lan... More

For the foreseeable future, we’ll be seeing the continued popularity of mobile devices and over-the-top (OTT) services for viewing TV content, as well as more cord-cutting and 4K... More

NEW YORK — The Rights & Metadata Madness conference kicked off July 20 with a detailed explanation by Greg Cram, associate director of copyright and information Policy for th... More

In another example of IBM’s efforts to expand its initiatives around blockchain record-keeping technology, the company said July 14 that it launched cloud services to be used by ... More

A group of entertainment industry experts will be on hand in a webinar July 26 to tackle one of the industry’s biggest challenges today: breaking down the walls between platforms... More

By Greg Boyer, U.S. Entertainment & Media Consulting Leader, PwC Terms like “all you can eat” and “binging” were once relegated to the analog domains of inexpensive food... More

At the inaugural “Rights & Metadata Madness: Where Legal Meets the Digital Supply Chain” event July 20 in New York City, the current state of media and entertainment content ri... More

Software design services and tech integration company Solekai Systems has been chosen by Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Pure Flix Entertainment to analyze user trends on PureFlix.com, and... More