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Haivision announces general availability of Haivision Hub

Haivision, a global provider of mission-critical, real-time video streaming and networking solutions, has announced that Haivision Hub, a global video networking service, is now generally available. Haivision Hub has been adopted by several broadcasters and global organizations, including Eurovision Sport at EBU (see recent announcement), Microsoft Studios, Times Network, the United States Department of Veterans […]

June 8, 2021

Microsoft acquires Nuance for $20bn

Microsoft is set to acquire Nuance, an AI tech firm best known for helping to develop Apple’s Siri speech recognition software, in a transaction valued at $19.7 billion (€16.5bn). Mark Benjamin will remain CEO of Nuance, reporting to Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Cloud & AI at Microsoft. The transaction is intended to close […]

April 13, 2021

Firstlight Media’s OTT platform to support Struum

Firstlight Media is collaborating with one of the television industry’s newest OTT service, Struum, to deploy their new cloud-native streaming platform that is built on revolutionary Gen 5 architecture. As part of a longstanding development relationship, Firstlight Media will leverage Microsoft Azure’s hyperscale cloud platform and its own microservices-based architecture to create for Struum an […]

January 7, 2021