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No End in Sight for Digital Media Merger Madness Following Vice, Vox and Group Nine Deals
Anxiety within digital media is, in part, fueled by the domination of tech giants Facebook and Google in the digital advertising space
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Verizon Bets on Augmented Reality, Acquires Jaunt XR’s Software and Technology
AR startup has developed technology that quickly captures 3D spaces and movement
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CBS and Viacom: The Long Road to Re-Merging the Redstone Empire
Shari Redstone’s push to reunite the two media giants culminates Tuesday after years of legal battles, lowball offers and executive turmoil
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Verizon Sells Tumblr to WordPress’ Parent Company
Automattic Inc. grabs blogging platform for fraction of what Yahoo paid for it a five years earlier
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Why Verizon Media’s RYOT Predicts 5G Will Revolutionize Animation
“It’s really going to democratize and allow people to do crazy cool animations without having the institutional knowledge,” Nigel Tierney, head of content at Verizon Media’s RYOT studios, says
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Sprint and T-Mobile’s $26 Billion Merger Approved by Justice Department
Telecom giants cover 80 million Americans combined
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Quibi: How Past Short-Form Video Fumbles May Signal Tough Road Ahead
“It’s going to be tough getting people’s attention on smartphones,” Colin Dixon, the chief analyst at nScreenMedia, says
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How Quibi CEO Meg Whitman Plans to Bring ‘Watercooler’ Shows to Mobile Video
“What I’m doing here reminds me of eBay in its earliest days. The consumer tech has changed a ton, but the fundamentals are the same around user experience and user interface,” Whitman tells TheWrap
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Dan Krauss Documentary ‘5B’ About the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Acquired by Verizon Media (Video)
Film tells story of the caregivers who built Ward 5B in 1983 at San Francisco General Hospital
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Complex Networks Partners With Viacom’s Pluto TV on 24/7 Channel (Exclusive)
Complex’s content will be available on-demand and through its own 24/7 channel on Pluto TV
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RYOT’s Head of Immersive Jake Sally on the Challenges of Storytelling in Virtual Reality
5 Questions: “The idea of free choice in VR is particularly tricky, because it’s never really your choice is it?,” Sally says
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Verizon Follows Comcast in Dropping Jennifer Lopez’s Fuse Media Network
The network criticized Comcast and Verizon for not being committed to diverse programming
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Disney-Verizon Blackout Avoided as New Carriage Deal Is Reached
ESPN and ABC viewers who subscribe to Verizon’s FiOS service would have been among those impacted
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Verizon Takes $4.6 Billion Write Down on Oath
Failed AOL-Yahoo joint venture sees its value slashed to about $200 million — after Verizon paid $9 billion for both companies
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How to Watch or Live Stream Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (Video)
TheWrap’s got your back, balloon lovers
