Category: Technology News

Google, YouTube Roll Out Several Tools for Small and Midsized Businesses

By: David Cohen

Google and its YouTube video site released several new tools for small businesses to connect with customers via their platforms and detailed the first-ever Small Biz Day, set for June 24…read more.

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Amazon launches miniTV, a free video streaming service

Amazon Mini TV

By: Tech Desk

Amazon has launched a new video streaming service, called miniTV. The service offers users “professionally” created and curated content across web series, comedy shows, tech news, food, beauty, fashion and more. It is free of cost, but users will witness ads. It is available within the Amazon shopping app.

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Disney Plus has no plans for a lower cost ad-supported option for now, CEO says

By: Catie Keck

Many major streamers support advertising in some form or another — think Hulu, HBO Max, or Sling TV as just a few examples — but Disney’s chief says the company’s marquee service won’t be adding ads to its service anytime soon.

Speaking at the Credit Suisse 23rd …

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Facebook Outlines Advances in Computer Vision and Object Identification Tech

By: Andrew Hutchinson

While machine learning systems have gotten much better at identifying objects within still frames, the next stage of this process is identifying individual objects within video, which could open up new considerations in brand placement, visual effects, accessibility features and more.

Google has been developing its tools on this front for some time, …

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Amazon, Google and Facebook will be hit hard by the G-7 tax deal. Here’s how they responded

DRM YouTube and Facebook

By: Ryan Browne

The world’s biggest tech companies are facing a corporate tax avoidance crackdown after the Group of Seven most developed economies agreed to a historic deal.

The G-7 on Saturday backed a U.S. proposal that calls for corporations around the world to pay a minimum 15% tax on profits. The …

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Facebook’s Oculus is testing in-headset VR advertising

By: Amanda Yeo

On Wednesday Oculus announced it will begin a “small test” to insert ads into VR games, starting with 2020 indie shooter Blaston. Ads will be added to more VR titles in the following weeks, with the aim to deploy them more widely across the Oculus Platform after gathering feedback from both …

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Tubi Sets Originals Strategy: Fox’s Free Streaming Service to Bow 140-Plus Hours of Original TV and Movies This Fall

Tubi for Free

By: Todd Spangler

Just a few years ago, Tubi didn’t want anything to do with original content.

The subscription VOD market is “heated and very expensive,” founder/CEO Farhad Massoudi told Variety in early 2019 in explaining why Tubi had no plans to produce original content. “We want to bring our customers as much of the other 99% …

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Why Is Roku Buying Video Content?

By: Brett Schafer

Late last week, Roku announced it had come to an agreement with Quibi, the failed short-form streaming platform, to exclusively host its content on the Roku Channel. Being the operating system for internet-connected TVs (CTVs), it probably came as a bit of a surprise that Roku was being so aggressive buying up content.

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Tubi Sets Streaming Pact With Cohen Media Group, Adding 80 Films To Free, Ad-Supported Service

By: Dade Hayes

Fox Corp. streaming service Tubi has made a deal with Cohen Media Group to put 80 of its film titles on the free, ad-supported platform.

Tubi will have exclusive free streaming rights to classics like Howards End and Daughters Of The Dust. More recent films that are heading to the platform include Agnès Varda and JR’s documentary …

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Netflix will press start on video game ‘expansion’ with games for smartphones, tablets

By: Mike Snider

Mobile video games will be the focus of the Netflix’s video game initiative.

These future mobile games will be included in members’ subscriptions at no additional cost, the Los Gatos, California-based streaming TV provider company said in its second quarter 2021 shareholder letter Tuesday.

“We view gaming as …

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