Facebook-owned VR company Oculus is restructuring. Brendan Iribe, who’s been the company’s CEO for four years, announced that he’s stepping away from the chief executive position to head up a newly-formed PC division within Oculus. Meanwhile, Oculus exec Jon Thomason will lead a separate unit focused on mobile VR. The decision to create two separate […]
There’s another OTT-based live TV service on the horizon, and it looks like CBS will be a part of it. Unplugged, the upcoming “virtual MVPD” from Google’s YouTube, has “been able to make a deal” with CBS Corp., according to CBS chief Les Moonves. The news was reported back in October, but was entirely based […]
Facebook Live will soon enable 360-degree streaming. Starting today at 3 PM ET, the social giant’s live-broadcasting feature will be taken for its test run in the immersive new format. National Geographic’s Facebook page will run a 360-degree live-stream from the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, showing a group of scientists who have been […]
In its first-ever deal with Louis C.K., Hulu has acquired the exclusive streaming rights to Horace and Pete, an original series revolving around an Irish-American bar. After becoming available for purchase on Louis C.K.’s website earlier this year, all 10 episodes of the groundbreaking series officially make their streaming debut today to subscribers across all […]
The two Republicans on the Federal Communications Commission said they want to overturn the net neutrality rules after President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Passed by a 3-2 vote last year, the rules reclassified broadband as a utility service and imposed some common carrier rules on broadband providers. Commissioner Ajit Pai, an outspoken critic of the […]
The Federal Trade Commission is watching smart TVs because it’s concerned with just how smart they can be regarding viewers’ personal data. AdExchanger reports that at an FTC workshop on Wednesday, the Commission sought to clarify how the ad industry is using the data that’s being collected. “Consumers expect some level of data collection when […]
Mondelez International’s Sour Patch Kids is releasing a branded Samsung Gear VR game, MediaPost reports. Sour Patch Kids: Zombie Invasion, priced at $2.99, will debut on the Oculus Store on Dec. 8. Sour Patch Kids’ previously released games have been free.
Facebook may become the second-biggest media supplier to WPP Group next year behind Google, according to CEO Martin Sorrell, who addressed the UBS media conference this week. In 2016, WPP will spend about $5.5 billion on Google compared with $4 billion a year ago. News Corp. and Twenty-First Century Fox are currently in second place.
Although it’s not been the best at sharing, Apple indicated this week that its artificial intelligence researchers are going to start publishing some of their work and engaging more with the wider academic community. BusinessInsider cites comments by Russ Salakhutdinov, director of AI research at Apple and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, at a […]
The Supreme Court overturned Apple’s $400 million award in its long-running patent lawsuit against Samsung, ruling that juries need not award damages based on the profits for an entire product if the item consists of many parts. The case will be returned to the Federal Circuit so that the damages can be reassessed.
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