Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the successful completion of its previously announced acquisition of Juniper Networks, a specialist in AI-native networks. The transaction, valued at $14 billion, doubles the size of HPE’s networking business and provides customers with a  portfolio of networking solutions. “Today begins a new era for HPE – we are now at […]

The Premier League and Microsoft have announced a five-year strategic partnership designed to transform how 1.8 billion fans in 189 countries engage with the world’s most-watched football league. As part of the collaboration, Microsoft will become the official cloud and AI partner for the Premier League’s digital platforms, modernising the League’s digital infrastructure, broadcast match […]

US homes now own an average of two smart TVs – dominated by LG and Samsung – but Roku and Fire TV continue to make headway in 2025. But how exactly are users leaning into new TV features and content on their ‘most-used’ TV set? Hub Entertainment Research has released its annual Evolution of the […]

Cloudflare, the tech company that secures sites and manages their traffic, has rolled out a new permission-based setting that allows owners to automatically block AI companies from collecting their digital data. With the new setting, websites can block — by default — online bots that scrape their data, requiring the website owner to grant access […]

Integral Ad Science (IAS), media measurement and optimisation platform, today announced a partnership with Snap and Lumen Research to bring personalised attention measurement to Snapchat. Snap Attention Measurement will now allow advertisers to access social attention metrics directly and seamlessly, combining Lumen’s eye-tracking system with AI-powered media quality data from AIS to create a tailored […]

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is proposing to designate Google with ‘strategic market status’ (SMS) in general search and search advertising under the new Digital Markets Competition Regime. The CMA has also published a roadmap of potential actions it could prioritise were Google to be designated. Early priorities include: requiring choice screens for […]

Endava, the technology-driven business transformation group, has published data which reveals a story of marked optimism around AI in the UK. Although AI technology is still emerging, two thirds of respondents (65 per cent) already rank it alongside water and energy in terms of social importance. A similar number (69 per cent) believe that AI […]

HarbourView Equity Partners, a multi-strategy investment firm focused on investment opportunities in the music, sports, media and entertainment space, is leading a $85 million (€73.8m) investment in Animaj, alongside Bpifrance, the French national investment fund and a key player in the French tech and AI ecosystem. Animaj is a digital-first AI-empowered media company transforming kids […]

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the media measurement and optimisation platform, has announced the launch of new contextual category reporting for Meta Platforms, expanding measurement reporting across Facebook and Instagram Feed and Reels. “We are closing the loop for advertisers, providing powerful, trusted, AI-driven granular insights across Meta that in turn power optimisation solutions to ensure […]

Nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) of consumers with smart homes agree that having smart devices has vastly improved their quality of life, according to the State of Media, Entertainment & Tech: Subscriptions 2025 report from Horowitz. Another 60 per cent of smart device owners look forward to adding even more smart devices in the near […]