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BRAVE Combat, WSC Sports bring AI highlights to MMA

BRAVE Combat Federation, the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) promotion, and WSC Sports, a global player in AI sports video technology, have announced a three-year partnership ahead of the promotion’s first-event of the year, BRAVE CF 57, to create and distribute AI-powered real-time fight highlights. BRAVE CF will use WSC Sports’ machine learning technology to auto-detect, […]

March 9, 2022

Pixellot shortlisted for SXSW Innovation Award

Pixellot, a provider of AI-Automated sports video and analytics solutions, has been shortlisted as a finalist in the AI and Machine Learning category at the prestigious SXSW Innovation Awards. The recognition praises Pixellot’s streaming of more than 500 games from two MLB leagues with DoublePlay technology, the world’s first automated multi-camera production solution for baseball, […]

March 4, 2022

Intelsat names new Board

Intelsat’s new chair is Lisa Hammitt, a computer scientist with a track record at IBM where she led strategy in artificial intelligence (AI) and later ran its Watson project. Until 2020 she was global VP of data and AI at credit card company Visa. Current CEO Steve Spengler will remain on the board for the […]

February 28, 2022By Chris Forrester

Magnite acquires Carbon

Magnite, the independent omnichannel sell-side advertising platform, has announced the acquisition of Carbon, a platform that enables publishers to measure, manage and monetise audiences in real-time. Magnite saus the acquisition accelerates its seller-first, privacy-focused identity and audience solutions focused around first-party segments and bolsters the Product and Engineering teams in this critical area. The acquisition […]

February 28, 2022

Google Cloud, Elisa partner

Google Cloud and Finnish telecommunications and digital services provider, Elisa, have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate Elisa’s cloud transformation journey and work together on joint innovations in several areas. This new alliance will see Elisa leverage Google Cloud’s infrastructure, storage, advanced data analytics, and hybrid cloud management services to accelerate its go-to-market activities, explore […]

February 28, 2022

Netcracker launches Netcracker Digital Platform

Netcracker Technology has announced the launch of Netcracker Digital Platform to help CSPs accelerate new business growth in the digital economy. CSPs are making significant transformation investments to deliver exceptional customer experiences. The challenge now is to leverage these investments to create new growth opportunities while driving significant cost efficiency and agility across the business. […]

February 22, 2022

Dragonfruit launches Frontier

Dragonfruit, the AI Analytics platform, has announced Dragonfruit Frontier, a new Cloud VMS with AI Analytics included. Frontier delivers a fully integrated experience, combining consumer-grade usability with enterprise-grade capability. “Most traditional VMSs haven’t kept pace with AI advances, and only offer bolt-on solutions for video analytics”, said Amit Kumar, Founder and CEO. “Dragonfruit is the […]

February 19, 2022

Data: Crypto beats Amazon in Super Bowl coverage

Brands once again poured huge amounts if money into the Super Bowl in search of high-profile boost both during and after the event. According to data from Signal AI — which evaluates more than 5 million news sources daily – the fledgling cryptocurrency industry claimed the top spot in post Super Bowl coverage across top-tier […]

February 17, 2022

D2C offering from Salesforce, AWS

CRM specialist Salesforce and cloud platform AWS have uunveiled an offering that they say combines high-quality video streaming technology with unique viewer data and feedback analysis tools to help content distributors deliver more scalable, personalised viewer experiences. “Attracting and retaining a diverse audience while delivering consistent, high-quality video is one of the key challenges content […]

February 17, 2022

Nokia, Kyndryl network partnership

Kyndryl, an IBM spin-off, and Nokia have announced a global network and edge computing alliance aimed at helping enterprise customers accelerate their digital transformations with secure LTE and 5G private wireless networking. The partnership builds on a successful private wireless connectivity project that yielded an innovative solution combining Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) application platform […]

February 17, 2022