Netflix continues to grow fast and can appear invulnerable. It has just reported record subscriber growth. But, alongside, it is also making records in cash burning – $460 million versus $287 million in the same quarter a year ago. And this is before new competition arrives in the form of Disney+ and Apple TV+. The […]
Stats, a specialist in sports AI, has combined with Perform, the global sports content company. The transaction was enabled by an investment from Vista Equity Partners. DAZN Group, Perform’s owner, will receive a combination of cash and a significant minority stake in the newly formed company Together US-based Stats and European-based Perform will combine Stats’ […]
UK households are increasingly adopting the smart home experience, according to the third report from EY’s annual digital home survey of 2,500 UK consumers. The report, which focuses on the connected home, finds that nearly a quarter (22 per cent) of households currently own a voice-controlled digital home assistant, double the figure from 2017 (11 […]
Gamification, blockchain, and artificial intelligence technologies specialist Animoca Brands has secured a global licensing agreement with Formula 1 to develop and publish F1 Delta Time, a blockchain game based on motorsport’s premier category. As part of the licensing agreement, Animoca Brands will assist in driving fan engagement by developing and publishing the blockchain game F1 […]
A Parks Associates report finds that smart home solutions will increasingly rely on voice control, video and data analytics, sound recognition, and AI to simplify the user experience. Technology Convergence and the Smart Home reports US broadband households now own more than 10 connected devices, including a mix of connected CE, smart home, and connected […]
Parks Associates research shows 31 per cent of US broadband households own a smart speaker with voice assistant and more than one-fourth of these owners use the devices to control a smart home device through voice commands. “Competing protocols and confusing controls continue to inhibit smart home adoption, as end users fear and ultimately avoid […]
Apple held its much-hyped launch extravaganza on March 25th from its own theatre in California, where CEO Tim Cook made clear from the outset that the event would be about new services, not devices. Apple TV+ had to wait behind the new News+ (a library of 300+ glossy magazines); Pay (a new Apple credit card); […]
Self-optimising Wi-Fi specialist Plume, whose smart home platform serving millions of members around the world, is continuing its rapid growth by announcing its direct-to-consumer debut in the United Kingdom, a new and advanced IoT security service, and its latest piece of hardware, the PowerPod. Plume’s UK consumer launch comes less than a year after the […]
BT has announced the licensing of the company’s cyber security visual analytics technology, SATURN, to QiO Technologies, an advanced analytics and artificial intelligence software company. BT developed SATURN to ingest and analyse huge amounts of data using AI, and then present a real-time visual representation of a network to users, including cyber security engineers. As […]
Roku devices are now compatible with Amazon Alexa-enabled devices through the new Roku skill for Alexa. Roku streaming player and Roku TV owners in the US can now control their Roku devices using Alexa. “Consumers often have multiple voice ecosystems in their homes. By allowing our customers to choose Alexa, in addition to Roku voice […]