SenseTime Group, the world’s most valuable artificial-intelligence start-up, is preparing for a new financing round with the China-baned company aiming to raise about $2 billion in fresh funding this year. Bloomberg reports that SenseTime, which counts Alibaba Group as an investor, raised more than $1.2 billion last year including a round announced in May that […]
Media and entertainment metadata provider Gracenote has launched its next-generation descriptive metadata solution designed to make possible more contextually-relevant and satisfying TV and movie discovery experiences. Gracenote Video Descriptors, the first of the company’s new Advanced Discovery products, will enable pay-TV providers, OTT services and connected device manufacturers to unlock deeper user engagement and loyalty […]
Video software provider Synamedia, the company created from the acquisition of Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software Solutions business, and backed by the Permira funds, has unveiled Credentials Sharing Insight, its first product launch in its new guise. Credentials Sharing Insight is designed to help streaming service providers combat the rapid rise in account sharing between […]
The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) has written to the European Commission’s President Jean-Claude Junker (and its various Directorate Commissioners responsible) to speedily adopt the Cellular-V2X technology in place of 801.11p in order to reduce the ‘time to market’ and harmonisation for network operators and the motor industry in the build-up to 5G, and […]
According to a consumer survey from Strategy Analytics, the most popular smart speaker model in the US is the Amazon Echo, which accounts for 23 per cent of all smart speakers in use. Including all its models, Amazon accounts for 63 per cent of smart speakers in use, while Google accounts for 17 per cent […]
Samsung has acquired Spanish AI and analytics firm Zhilabs. The tech giant says the takeover will boost its automation and analytics capabilities, central to developing 5G services. Zhilabs will continue to operate under its own management and independently from Samsung. Youngky Kim, President and Head of Networks Business at Samsung Electronics, said: “5G will enable […]
Gong Yu, founder and CEO of iQIYI, China’s largest online streaming platform, has predicted that advances in machine learning over the next two decades will reshape the entertainment industry more than the Internet has done until now. Delivering a Media Mastermind Keynote at MIPCOM in Cannes, Yu suggested that iQIYI was “well-positioned” to capture the […]
OTT, content production, and digital distribution solutions provider Ooyala and Telstra have revealed the completion of the management buyout of Ooyala. The Australian telco invested $270 million (€233m) in August 2104 to increase its ownership in Ooyala from 23 per cent (fully diluted) to 98 per cent and was in addition to the US$61 million […]
Agama Technologies, the specialist in video service quality and customer experience, has introduced AI Anomaly Detection. Powered by AI and machine learning, this new extension provides enhanced awareness of real incidents and elimination of irrelevant alarms, which Agama says enables service providers to deliver optimal service quality to customers with greater efficiency. To deliver video […]
A survey commissioned by BriteBill, a provider of billing and communications software for utilities, communications and media providers, has revealed that although service providers are moving at record pace to innovate, a significant engagement channel – the bill – is often overlooked in their digital transformation strategies. Predictably competition is a major driver for this […]