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variety | March 04, 2020

Fears around the impact an outbreak of Coronavirus will have upon the U.S. economy saw record declines in the stock market beginning last week. The majority of companies operating in media, both big tech and traditional entertainment, felt the pain, with only Netflix entering March valued more than they were in February. The traditional entertainment companies, comprising MVPDs, network groups and major studios, had their market caps fall by $91.8 billion (6.4%). The four big tech firms (Google,...

Media and Broadcasting

AWS, Verimatrix | May 27, 2021

Verimatrix, the leader in powering the modern connected world with people-centered security, today announced its support for the AWS for Media & Entertainment initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS) – enabling content service providers that deploy on AWS to implement Verimatrix’s Multi-DRM Core solution to negotiate premium content rights with pre-approved and pre-integrated security for the distribution of licensed content. Cloud-native and unencumbered by legac...

Technologies, Business

DataStax | June 30, 2022

DataStax, the real-time data company, announced the general availability (GA) of Astra Streaming, an advanced, fully-managed messaging and event streaming service built on Apache Pulsar™. Now featuring built-in API-level support for Kafka, RabbitMQ and Java Message Service (JMS), Astra Streaming makes it easy for enterprises to get real-time value from all their data-in-motion.“Many enterprises are struggling with fragmented and complex streaming architectures, with most of the...

Applications

Hearst Television | September 21, 2021

Hearst Television today announced the release of its over-the-top (OTT) and connected TV (CTV) channel, "Very Local." Available on popular streaming platforms such as Roku and Amazon Fire TV, Very Local allows viewers to connect with local news and information relevant to their lives, as well as content from other communities around the United States. Very Local features locally focused, free ad-supported streaming (FAST) channels across Hearst Television's footprint serving...