Canela.TV, the AVoD services for US Hispanics, has expanded its partnership with Vionlabs, to offer subscribers personalised content discovery based on the emotions each content category evokes. This is Vionlabs first partnership in the US going live with Moods, which is part of Vionlabs Fingerprint+ product. Moods harnesses AI to analyse video metadata to extract […]
Etisalat Group has announced the appointment of Mikhail Gerchuk as CEO – International and Khalifa Hassan Al Forah Al Shamsi as CEO – Etisalat Consumer Digital. Reporting to Hatem Dowidar – Etisalat Group CEO, Gerchuk and Al Shamsi will help secure the organisation’s growth mandate. Gerchuk will be responsible for providing comprehensive direction to develop […]
IBM has acquired Sentaca, a telco consulting services and solutions provider. IBM says the acquisition will accelerate its hybrid cloud consulting business, adding critical skills to help communications service providers (CSPs) and media giants modernsze on multiple cloud platforms, innovate, and transform their businesses. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Sentaca’s team of technology consultants across the US […]
TheViewPoint, a SaaS video ad monetisation platform for CTV/OTT publishers, has partnered with Zone·tv, a pioneer of personalized pay-TV channels powered by AI, to provide it with refined ad management and optimisation solutions. Zone·tv is at the forefront of the transition that is taking place in media and TV today. By combining artificial intelligence with […]
Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC), the Italian Football Federation, has announced a 3-year collaboration with WSC Sports, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven sports video technology, to create AI-powered highlights of the Serie A TimVision, the highest league of women’s football in Italy. FIGC will be using WSC Sports’ full suite of automation tools […]
iconik, a cloud-native, SaaS media management solution, has released its annual media stats report detailing trends within its user-base for SaaS media management and video. This year’s report shows a dramatic increase in the use of AI services for media management, such as visual AI analysis and voice-to-text transcriptions. It also demonstrates further transition to […]
The executive president of Telefónica, Jose María Alvarez-Pallete, has been elected as the new president of the GSMA, the organisation that represents more than 750 of the world’s mobile operators, as well as over 350 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem. Álvarez-Pallete’s mandate will last until December 2022 and marks the first time that a […]
Utelogy, the UC, AV & Device management, monitoring and analytics company has announced its acquisition of CloudThinQ, a Seattle-based provider of IoT and real-time device management for the Enterprise workplace. CloudThinQ has developed a unique cloud-based enterprise IoT platform to intelligently integrate building systems into a flexible and scalable framework for enhanced smart building experiences. […]
Pixellot, a provider of AI-Automated sports video and analytics solutions, has partnered with The National Travel Basketball Association (NTBA), the youth travel basketball tournament operator to provide software and hardware solutions for the capture, production and streaming of basketball games and tournaments across the US. NTBA hosts events across the country for boys and girls […]
Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind AI lab has left Alphabet to join venture capital firm Greylock Partners, following a turbulent tenure. Suleyman will be a venture partner at Greylock, advising early-stage companies and investing in artificial intelligence start-ups. Suleyman had previously been vice president for AI product management and policy at Google, joining […]