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Smart assistants to triple by 2023 to 8bn
The global usage of smart digital assistants is set to gather pace over the next five years, reaching 8 billion devices with Google and Amazon established as the leaders.
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Bafta 2019 winners
The Favourite and Roma were among the films celebrated last night at the the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) Awards.
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UKTV CEO steps down
Darren Childs will step down from his role as chief executive of UKTV after holding the position for eight years, amid suggestions that the broadcaster could be broken up.
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Huawei 'crisis' meeting & Google under fire
Your guide to what’s happened this week in the media, entertainment and technology industry.
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Sports content to boost global content spend
Global consumer spend on digital content is set to increase by $23 billion this year, with sports video identified as the key driver of growth.
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Tech giants urge US to adopt GDPR laws
Cisco has joined Apple, Microsoft and IBM in urging the US to follow in the footsteps of the European Union by formalising GDPR-like regulations.
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UK film and TV spend hits £3.1bn in 2018
Production spend on film and TV in the UK reached £3.1bn in 2018, which the BFI said was a vote of confidence in the UK’s crews, facilities and locations.
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John Honeycutt joins Google Cloud unit
John Honeycutt has stepped down from his role as Discovery CTO to join the Google Cloud division as the new head of telecommunications, media and entertainment verticals.
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Facebook’s focus on Watch as profit hits $6.9bn
Facebook has posted record profit for the last three months of 2018, as the company reiterated its plans to take the social media giant’s Watch video offering into the mainstream.
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Google leads fight against fake audio
Google has released thousands of phrases spoken by its text-to-speech technology as part of a challenge to researchers from around the world to combat fake audio.
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Weekly news round-up: BBC's Brexit plans & Discovery “not for sale”
Your guide to what’s happened this week in the media, entertainment and technology industry.
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Apple CEO bets on video to drive revenue growth
Announcing its fiscal first quarter results for 2019 yesterday, Apple boss Tim Cook revealed “huge changes in customer behaviour” set to drive Apple’s strategy for the year ahead.
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Comcast set to rollout Now TV globally
Comcast to launch its new streaming service in 2020 based on Sky’s OTT operation, Now TV as a “distinct and compelling” offering free for pay-TV customers.
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Tech CEOs back new Digital Declaration
Ericsson, Sony, Verizon, IBM, Orange and Vodafone are among 40 technology bosses to declare responsible leadership in the digital era.
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Weekly news round-up: Sony relocates UK HQ and IBM & Vodafone's 5G venture
Your guide to what’s happened this week in the media, entertainment and technology industry.
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Microsoft’s Bing blocked in China
The Chinese government has blocked Microsoft’s search engine Bing, joining Facebook and Google as the latest foreign technology provider to become unavailable in the country.
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Google fined £44m for GDPR breach
French watchdog has found Google in violation of “transparency, information and consent,” the first milestone fine under Europe’s strict global data protection regulation (GDPR).
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Hybrid-cloud leads for M&E sector
Some 54% of the global media and entertainment sector will host its workloads in the cloud by 2020, according to a new report.
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UK tech firms reject no-deal Brexit
Some 51% of UK technology companies are in favour of a second referendum on Brexit, according to a survey conducted by Tech UK.
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Netflix celebrates record revenues and subscriber growth
Reporting its Q4 2018 results, Netflix has revealed its revenues grew to $16 billion and concluded the year with 139 million paying memberships.