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Featured Jobs: Deluxe; HGST; VirtusaPolaris

Network Engineer — Burbank, CA — Deluxe Sr. Partner Marketing Manager — San Jose, CA — HGST QA Engineer — Westborough, MA — VirtusaPolaris Click here to view all ava... More

NeuLion Enters into New Agreement with PokerGO (MESA)

NeuLion today announced that it has entered into an agreement with PokerGO, a recently-launched digital video subscription service that gives poker fans worldwide access to exclusi... More

Rackspace Partners with Pivotal to Launch Managed Services for Cloud Foundry (TechCrunch)

Rackspace, which strongly focuses on managed services these days, today announced a partnership with Pivotal, the company behind the open source Cloud Foundry platform as a service... More

Hulu Sets Up Mammoth 20th Century Fox TV Deal (Variety)

Hulu and 20th Century Fox Television Distribution announced an massive new agreement that will add nearly 3,000 episodes from 26 comedy and drama series to the streaming service. W... More

PwC Report: Online Ads Overtake TV (MediaPost)

According to the Price Waterhouse (PwC) latest annual Entertainment & Media Outlook report, with projections for online and offline media advertising markets through 2021, online a... More

Netflix’s Next Move is to Disrupt Hollywood’s Biggest Money Maker (Washington Post)

Known for its hit shows like "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black," and inspiring a new way of watching television, the streaming giant Netflix is making a more aggressive... More

Baidu Taps Microsoft Azure to Power its Self-Driving Car Tech Outside of China (GeekWire)

Baidu has been among the most aggressive companies driving research into self-driving cars with artificial intelligence, and it announced Tuesday that it wants Microsoft to be its ... More

NBC is Launching Snapchat’s First Daily News Show Today (Refinery29)

If you're already addicted to watching the news on your phone, you have yet another reason to keep tuning in. Today, NBC is launching a twice-daily news show called Stay Tuned on S... More

Avid’s Patent Infringement Claims Against Harmonic Set to Proceed to Trial (MESA)

Avid today addressed the status of patent infringement litigation which has been ongoing against Harmonic Inc. since 2011. Although Avid has not considered this litigation materia... More

TV Networks Sell a Record $19.7 Billion in Advertising at Surprisingly Strong Upfront Market (LA Times)

The ad sales volume was higher than what several analysts were expecting. The total represented a new record for the upfront market — when television networks sell the bulk of th... More

Summer Vacation Trip Rx: DVD (HMM)

With summer vacation in full throttle, families are hitting the roads to get away from the daily grind — but not necessarily 21st century amenities like streaming video and Wi-Fi... More

Featured Jobs: Filmtrack; Box; AWS

User Experience Designer — Studio City, CA — Filmtrack Senior Product Manager, Partner Integrations — Redwood City, CA — Box Software Development Engineer — Seattle —... More

‘Game Of Thrones’ Shatters HBO Viewership Records With Season 7 Debut (Deadline)

Winter may be here for the penultimate season of Game Of Thrones, but HBO’s blockbuster series turned on the heat to shatter viewership records with last night’s Season 7 debut... More

Accenture Interactive, Marriott International and 1776 Launch the Travel Experience Incubator (MESA)

Accenture Interactive, Marriott International, and 1776 today announced the launch of the Travel Experience Incubator, a new program designed to discover and foster startups workin... More

Personalization: What’s in It for the Customers? (Dealerscape)

If marketers think that they are still in control just because they got to have a few tidbits about their customers in some fancy Big Data platform, well, they are utterly wrong. T... More

5G: The Next Tech Disruption in Media and Entertainment is Coming (Forbes)

The fifth generation (5G) of technology for wireless communication is coming soon, in the span of two to three years in the U.S. according to the Red Chalk Group, with similar time... More

Publishers Forge Ahead with VR, Even if Users and Advertisers Lag Behind (Digiday)

Publishers can get more audience scale by doing 360 video, VR’s lower-tech cousin that doesn’t take a special headset to view. But 360 is less captivating, both because of its ... More

Why TV is Facebook’s Next Frontier (Engadget)

Facebook has long had a love affair with video. Recently, however, the social network has taken its video ambitions one step further: It's diving into original programming. This in... More

Worldwide Online Video Consumption, Advertising To Rise By One-Fifth (MediaPost)

A new report forecasts that online video viewing around the world will rise by one-fifth in 2017. Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2017 report estimates that consumers will spend ... More

Look Out, YouTube and Facebook: Amazon’s Coming for Video Publishers (Digiday)

YouTube and Facebook get a bulk of the attention from digital publishers looking to build and scale video businesses. Meanwhile, for the past year, Amazon has built a platform that... More

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