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prnewswire | October 06, 2020

Four leading local television stations in Austin, TX, including KXAN-TV (NBC), KEYE-TV (CBS), KNVA (CW), and KBVO-CD (MyNet), today became among the first in the nation to begin broadcasting with NEXTGEN TV, a revolutionary new digital broadcast technology. Based on the same fundamental technology as the Internet, digital applications, and other web services, NEXTGEN TV can support a wide range of features currently in development, such as immersive audio and video (up to 4K), broadcasting...

prnewswire | March 30, 2020

Today, the XR Association (XRA), global law firm Perkins Coie LLP, and industry venture capital firm Boost VC released the results of the fourth annual Augmented and Virtual Reality Survey, which surveyed respondents from startups, enterprise technology firms, and investors in the XR industry in early 2020. The survey, conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic, concluded that plummeting hardware and software costs, increasingly impactful applications outside of entertainment, and the ubiquity of mo...

MEDIA AND BROADCASTING

Zordix | November 30, 2021

Swedish gaming group Zordix AB (publ) today announced the acquisition of Maximum Games for $42 million upfront in cash and shares and an estimated earn-out of $30 million in cash and shares. Maximum Games is a full-service video game publisher and distributor with over 300 titles in its catalogue and operates independent publishing label Modus Games, as well as Modus Studios development team in Brazil. By joining forces with Maximum Games, Zordix significantly expands its capabilities and resour...

BUSINESS

Universal Music Group | March 02, 2022

Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, today announced the acquisition of the entirety of Neil Diamond's historic song catalog through Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), its leading global publishing division, as well as the rights to all recordings from his career, including 110 unreleased tracks, an unreleased album and archival long form videos. The deal builds upon UMPG's existing relationship with Diamond, as the company has ...