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GUEST: The video game community isn’t known for its gender diversity. With women making up just 22 percent of all game developers internationally, the industry really needs to welcome more women into the workforce. One company breaking that mold is Blizzard Entertainment, publisher of games like World of Warcraft and one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For […]
Ken Ishii/Getty Netflix is building one of the most substantial treasure troves of video in Hollywood, and the value of its content has more than doubled in the last two years, according to new research by Morgan Stanley. The firm’s analysis shows Netflix’s content library is currently worth around $ 12 billion in net assets for the […]
Thomson Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – Over the last seven trading days, investors have more than doubled the amount of cash invested in a key financial sector fund, in a bet that second-quarter bank earnings will be robust. Big U.S. banks start reporting quarterly results on Friday and according to data from State Street, the […]
A few years ago, when a cadre of dudes jumped out of a zeppelin wearing Google Glass, nearly everyone watching had a “holy shit” moment. Company execs had just run through a slew of big, consumer-facing announcements, and then Sergey Brin threw the presentation to a live video streamed by people hurtling through the air. […]
AP ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Armed attacks on ships in West African waters nearly doubled in 2016, with pirates increasingly focused on kidnapping their crew for ransom off Nigeria’s coast, a report said on Tuesday. A recent spate of attacks off Somalia, meanwhile, may also indicate a resurgence of piracy in East Africa as a result […]
Christophe Wu Instagram is growing faster than ever. On Wednesday, the Facebook-owned app revealed that it has 700 million monthly users, up from 600 million in December 2016. The last four months marks the fastest Instagram has ever added 100 million additional users, a spokesperson told Business Insider. Wednesday’s announcement comes on the heels of […]
(Reuters) – Microsoft said on Thursday it had received at least a thousand surveillance requests from the U.S. government that sought user content for foreign intelligence purposes during the first half of 2016. The amount, shared in Microsoft’s biannual transparency report, was more than double what the company said it received under the Foreign Intelligence […]
BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Digital Media Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. The amount of global advertising revenue wasted on fraudulent traffic, or clicks automatically generated by bots, could reach $ 16.4 billion in 2017, according to a new study commissioned by WPP and cited by […]
MGM A survey by the US Energy Information Administration reveals some startling details about television use in American homes. The amount of homes that don’t own a TV has doubled since 2009. According to the USEI survey, 2.6% of American homes didn’t have a TV in 2015. That’s a huge increase from the 1.3% of American […]
