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Verizon Media announces platform to ‘evolve’ live streaming experience

Alistair Taylor

16 Sep 2020

Verizon

Verzion Media

Verizon Fios

Verizon Media announced a series of new Media Platform improvements in a press release today (16th September), intended to ‘evolve the live streaming experience’. These features are all aimed at increasing fan engagement following COVID-19’s detrimental impact on the overall viewing spectacle of live sports.

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The Internet’s Adolescence: The Real World Catches Up Eventually

Mark Mulligan

19 May 2017

AOL

Apple

Facebook

I started my career as an internet analyst back in the period of the dot-com bubble. They were heady days in which anything seemed possible. The world was changing in unprecedented ways and the possibilities were endless.

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Sarnoff’s Law and the Media Valuation Shift

Zach Fuller

10 Feb 2017

arpu

broadcast.com

David Sarnoff

The story of David Sarnoff is the archetypal American Dream. A Belarusian child immigrant arriving in New York City at the turn of the 20th century, the ambitious Sarnoff would demonstrate an early instinct for technological shifts with a prescient awarenessof the emerging media and entertainment industries.

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What’s In A Name: From Yahoo to Altaba

Tim Mulligan

11 Jan 2017

Alibaba

altaba

Apple

So two weeks into the 2017 and it's another year and yet another twist in the ongoing saga that is Yahoo. On Monday, Yahoo Inc disclosed in a regulatory filing that it was splitting the company into two.

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