GeekWire

MAY 10, 2020

The company provided “60 Minutes” with video of a prototype of the robot for a report Sunday night about Amazon’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, and the backlash from workers who want the company to close down distribution centers for cleaning and disinfection when employees test positive.

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Venture Beast

MAY 27, 2021

Noice has raised $5 million for what the startup is teasing as a “playful” social platform for gamers. The Helsinki, Finland-based startup comes from Jussi Laakkonen, who was the founder of Applifier, a mobile game video sharing company that was acquired by Unity Te… Read More.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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Vox

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about Covid-19 vaccines. It linked to a YouTube video that references the “Plandemic” conspiracy theory and Bill Gates. Content that spreads doubt about vaccines is easy to find online.

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Forrester IT

MAY 20, 2016

If your idea of "doing video" means having a YouTube channel, then you need to up your game. While a freemium player like YouTube can be an important part of an overall video strategy, it shouldn't be the only part. We detail that and more in Forrester's Vendor Landscape: Online Video Platforms For Sales And Marketing.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app. He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 26, 2021

A former content moderator for TikTok is suing the social media giant and its parent company, ByteDance, for reportedly failing to take measures to protect her mental health after she watched countless hours of traumatic videos involving cannibalism, rapes, animal mutilation, and suicides, among numerous other… Read more.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2020

The company didn’t exist. Some of those clients included companies backed by venture capitalists, who got to know Triple Tree. Building on Triple Tree’s success, the founders had a new idea to pursue: a platform for sharing videos with subscribers. And did we mention that they’re based in Bozeman, Mont.?

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Vox

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

These are among a series of demo videos of OpenAI’s Sora, revealed last week, which can turn a short text prompt into up to a minute of video. The artificial intelligence model is not yet open to the public, but OpenAI has released the videos, along with the prompts that generated them. It’s not there yet. That’s diffusion.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The company's TikTok alternative simply isn't winning, new Forrester data indicates.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Instagram is asking some users to provide a video selfie showing multiple angles of their face to verify that they’re a real person, according to screenshots posted to Twitter by social media consultant Matt Navarra. According to XDA Developers , the company started testing the feature last year but ran into technical issues.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” has long been a common refrain about the business of social media. But now, this free model of social media — subsidized by advertising — is under pressure.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Oversight Board of Meta has suggested that a clearly fabricated fake Joe Biden video should not be removed from Facebook, pointing out the need for Meta to revisit and potentially broaden its somewhat restrictive policy on manipulated media. What’s the story behind the fake Joe Biden video?

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

Teaching AI systems to understand what’s happening in videos as completely as a human can is one of the hardest challenges — and biggest potential breakthroughs — in the world of machine learning. The project, titled Learning from Videos , is also part of Facebook’s “broader efforts toward building machines that learn like humans do.”.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Why Taylor Swift, Drake, and Bad Bunny have been muted on TikTok dance videos. Just like that, thousands of videos featuring music by artists like Drake, Taylor Swift, and Bad Bunny were suddenly silent. Some of those artists and songwriters have spoken out about the situation.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Eight years after they left Zulily to concentrate full time on their social platform for gamers, husband and wife co-founders Yaprak and David DeCarmine are growing Seattle-based Game Jolt and raising new funding. “We’re building the social community platform for gamers and the types of content they love.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

On a video call from the hospital where he and his wife welcomed a baby boy over the weekend, CEO and co-founder Nick Fajt was excited about the 5-year-old startup he’s been raising into a unicorn in Seattle, where a majority of top tech companies operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. GeekWire File Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2022

While much of the festival felt familiar, it was clear that the tech landscape has changed in some exciting ways while we were all on video calls. “We see a future where volumetric video and your hologram will be your passport to the metaverse.” Heightened emphasis on social justice & equity. WXR Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Spun out of RealNetworks, the 2-year-old company is being backed by Seattle-based SeaChange along with Glaser Investments, the fund run by RealNetworks founder and CEO Rob Glaser. Scener co-founder Joe Braidwood told GeekWire that it’s “incredible” to see the industry finally embrace social TV.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

If you opened your Reddit app today and noticed a new video button next to the search bar, you could be a tap away from experiencing the forum platform’s take on TikTok. TechCrunch writes that the video feed, which pulls content from subreddits you follow along with some you don’t, started rolling out to iOS users on Friday.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Snapchat invented the Stories format of sharing pictures and videos that disappear. Now the company is indicating, along with Facebook, that the future of social media looks more like TikTok. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook parent company Meta, also identified TikTok as a formidable threat this week.

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The Verge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Take-Two Interactive, the video game publisher that owns Rockstar and 2K Games, is set to acquire social game developer Zynga in a deal valued at $12.7 billion acquisition is one of the biggest in video game history. The company is also set to roll out an Among Us -like game on Snapchat, called Revamp. Take-Two’s $12.7

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GeekWire

MAY 12, 2023

Twitter Images via @Seahawks) NFL teams have been having a ball the past couple days with social media posts tied to the release of their upcoming season schedules. Companies are racing to develop various AI platforms and tools. Investors are pouring billions into nascent startups.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft is acquiring Clipchamp , a Brisbane, Australia-based startup that makes a video creation and editing platform, the companies announced Tuesday. ” Founded in 2014 by former SAP employees, Clipchamp has 17 million users who create videos using in-browser tools. .” (Clipchamp Image). ” Pratley wrote.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A cybersecurity firm found that bots were promoting GameStop stock on social media before and after the stock’s frenzied rise last month, Reuters reported. Massachusetts-based PiiQ Media says social media bots promoted Dogecoin, GameStop, and other “meme” stocks in posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2021

Costco announced Wednesday that it will no longer operate photo departments at its stores, bowing to the rise of smartphones, social media and digital photo sharing. In-person services such as home movie video transfer, passport photo, photo restoration and ink cartridge refill services will also no longer be available in stores.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

India has announced new regulations for social networks and other web services in the country, particularly “significant social media” companies with large user bases, like Facebook and Twitter. Significant social media intermediaries” face additional responsibilities.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The short video platform already warns creators if their uploads contain effects that could trigger photosensitive epilepsy, but now anyone who encounters an example in their feed will get an alert that allows them to opt out of viewing such content in the future. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2021

Last week everyone was fixated on the “ Right Up Our Alley ” drone video that made us all nostalgic for bowling alleys. On Friday night, a VP at drone company DJI tweeted this video of a drone flight through a mostly-empty movie theater in Minnesota, and I don’t know about you but I really miss going to the movies.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Rec Room screenshot) Video game companies are dipping their toes into the rapidly-evolving world of generative AI with behind-the-scenes development. It’s definitely helped with our productivity in general, so we don’t have to watch and rewatch our gameplay videos,” said Joey Thigpen, co-lead developer.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 30, 2021

Like so many media companies before it, Instagram is gearing up for a sweeping embrace of video as its content of choice, the platform’s head, Adam Mosseri, announced on Wednesday. Read more.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

With so many meetings taking place via video, it is easier to offer customers transcriptions via software integrated directly into these calls. The company could integrate Nuance’s technology into its existing software, like Teams, or offer it independently as part of its Azure cloud business. Last month, the company completed its $7.5

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The Verge

MARCH 30, 2022

Russia’s communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, has threatened to fine Google over its failure to follow the country’s orders to remove certain “illegal” YouTube videos, as first reported by The Washington Post. It also says YouTube houses “extremist” content “with calls to carry out violent actions against Russian servicemen.”.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel is leading a company with a steeply declining stock price, competition from a much bigger industry rival, and painful staff cuts — but he isn’t ready to give up. Last week, the company laid off 20 percent of its workforce , or over 1,200 employees — one of the biggest in a recent wave of layoffs in tech.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2022

The tech: Pendulum’s software is used by corporate risk intelligence groups within Fortune 500 companies to identify risks and opportunities that arise from social media and other online content. It describes its technology as “narrative-based intelligence” which scans video, audio, text, and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2022

As shoppers become increasingly eager to buy via live shopping on social platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, retailers face new challenges: How to capture the shoppers’ attention on social media when the urge to buy hits? Live shopping is one of the most exciting retail experiences in a long time.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

YouTube is the latest Silicon Valley company to update its moderation policies around the fringe theory QAnon, announcing that content that targets or harasses people based on conspiracy theories will be removed. The company calls the work “pivotal in curbing the reach of harmful conspiracies,” but acknowledged there’s more to be done.

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