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Google Buys Video Processing Firm Anvato Amid OTT Push
Friday, July 8, 2016 - 11:13am | 612Amid a fierce battle for supremacy in video advertising dollars, Google (Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)), has bought Anvato. Anvato provides a software platform that fully automates the encoding, editing, publishing and secure distribution of video content across multiple platforms....
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IBM Beefs Up Cloud Offerings With Ustream Acquisition
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 10:01am | 423International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) confirmed it had acquired live-video streaming service Ustream on Wednesday in a deal worth $130 million. Big Blue's latest purchase is expected to help the company improve its cloud-computing services, a business that the firm has been focusing on...
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Why WWE Network's Free Trial Isn't Necessarily A Bad Thing
Friday, July 11, 2014 - 3:22pm | 657WWE Network (NYSE: WWE) has lost some of its luster after the highs of WrestleMania XXX. When the event debuted in April, WWE Network became the number-two live streaming site in the United States. As of April 7, the service had garnered 17.7 percent of all live streaming traffic (by volume)....