Singapore- Toggle announced that the Toggle app is now available on Google’s Chromecast and Apple TV. This allows Android and iOS users to cast Toggle content from their connected devices to their TV screen. Apple TV users can download the Toggle app and enjoy big screen HD experience as they catch up on their favourite Mediacorp TV shows and get their daily entertainment fix with Toggle’s entertainment buzz video clips. This latest foray marks the aggressive expansion of Toggle over the … [Read more...] about Toggle on Chromecast and Apple TV
Netflix, Amazon join Open Media alliance
Seven leading Internet companies have formed the alliance for Open Media – an open-source project that will develop next-generation media formats, codecs and technologies in the public interest. The alliance’s founding members are Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix. The new alliance is committing its collective technology and expertise to meet growing Internet demand for top-quality video, audio, imagery and streaming across devices of all kinds … [Read more...] about Netflix, Amazon join Open Media alliance
Screenz and Google collaborate to host Screenz Real Time Platform
Tel Aviv/ London – Screenz announced on June 12 their collaboration with Google to host the Screenz Real Time Platform, a global, live, interactive infrastructure for television shows enabling broadcasters and format owners to transform programmes into live events. The first show to use Screenz Real Time Platform is Rising Star – Keshet International’s hit TV show that first aired in Israel in September 2013, and will be launched in over 25 countries around the … [Read more...] about Screenz and Google collaborate to host Screenz Real Time Platform
YouTube to acquire Twitch for US$1 billion
Reuters – Google Inc's YouTube unit has reached a deal to acquire videogame-streaming service Twitch for more than US$1 billion, according to a report in Variety, the entertainment news publication. The all-cash deal is expected to be announced "imminently", according to the report on May 18, which cited unnamed sources. Officials at Google and Twitch declined to comment on the matter. San Francisco-based Twitch allows consumers to broadcast live video streams of themselves … [Read more...] about YouTube to acquire Twitch for US$1 billion
Chinese companies enter Top 30 Global Media Owners for the first time
The top media owner is Google, which is by some distance the world’s largest media owner, with revenues 47% higher than the second-largest, DirecTV. This gap has widened from 39% in last year’s edition of the report, as Google’s core search function has benefitted from the rapid rise in search volumes from smartphones and tablets. Among the rest of the top five, DirecTV remains in second place and Comcast remains in fifth. Disney has overtaken News Corporation to take third … [Read more...] about Chinese companies enter Top 30 Global Media Owners for the first time
Euronews partners with Google for magazine apps
Lyon, France – Euronews is now a partner of the Google App that brings together magazines and other news sources in one reading app. Both apps, Google Play Newsstand or Google Currents, help people to create their personalised magazine by aggregating information from selected news sites, magazines, blogs and others news sources in one single place. Euronews provides users with six content verticals to choose from: "News", "Europe", "Business", "Culture", "No Comment" and "Sci-Tech" in … [Read more...] about Euronews partners with Google for magazine apps
