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Maria Gurova

HBO NOW Pushing the Cord-Cutting Trend - App Annie Blog - 3 views

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Technology entertainment KE VOD cable TV TV Networks Entertainment as Service Theatrical Cord-cutting HBO Netflix Hulu Video Streaming Copyright Storytelling adjustable entertainment Market Digital Consumption Digital vs Physical

shared by Maria Gurova on 12 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • In 2007, Netflix changed the landscape by introducing streaming on PC, allowing customers to instantly watch shows. By 2010, Netflix video streaming became available on additional platforms, including iOS devices. Today, video streaming services Netflix and Hulu have a strong hold among combined iOS and Android Top US Apps.
  • These convenient apps have set the stage for a preferred entertainment delivery. A whole generation of consumers have grown up with video streaming, rather than (or in addition to) paying for cable television: cord cutters and cord nevers. Major premium cable networks, HBO and Showtime, are now after a piece of the pie Netflix and Hulu have carved out
  • Both HBO NOW and Showtime are taking different approaches to standalone streaming partnerships. HBO NOW has gotten more traction in part to a heavy promotion from Apple, resulting in positive metrics. Showtime’s success is less clear, being married into Hulu’s already strong performance
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  • Netflix isn’t being left in the dust completely, kicking off their original film initiative with “Beasts of No Nation”, which will launch both in theaters and streaming video on October 16th. HBO, Showtime, Netflix and Hulu will still need to compete with each other to retain users in a new “entertainment as a service” landscape where retention is not a given, but an earned currency.
  • Cable provider Comcast hasn’t felt the heat from the cord-cutting trend, having its second best Q2 in nine years. Comcast is also in an advantageous place as a broadband provider, with 22.3 million total customers in Q2. Good quality video streaming relies on broadband internet, meaning cable providers that offer bundled internet service will still be valuable
  • Maria Gurova on 12 Aug 15
     
    the rise of streaming services and how cable networks are competing with video streaming services on their battle field 
Maria Gurova

How To Get More People Into Movie Theaters (Without Higher Ticket Prices) - 3 views

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CIS Technology entertainment Theatrical Immersive Experience Market Economy

shared by Maria Gurova on 02 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Its newest toy is called Barco Escape and right now it’s essentially three theater screens in one space — the main screen and then additional screens on the left and right walls. The effect is a 270-degree image that makes viewers feel like they are in the middle of the action.
  • It’s the kind of premium experience that most people would expect to pay extra for but Schilowitz says part of the point of Escape is to give viewers a more theme-park like experience without charging any more for a ticket.
  • One of the biggest trends right now is people watching other people play video games.
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  • Schilowitz hopes to engage brands to make 270-degree short films to show before the actual movie. Think Red Bull's Red Bull's many extreme sports videos. Now picture them in an immersive experience.  The money coming from brands could help offset the costs of the Escape screen.
  • Schilowitz believes you could take that experience into the theater. Have two people playing a virtual reality game while strapped into Oculus Rift-type devices and people would pay to watch the game on the big screen if top- ranked players were competing.
  • Escape will also be used to show things like concerts which can be better experienced with a wider screen. A Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett show will debut in Escape theaters in 2015.
  • Maria Gurova on 02 Oct 14
     
    The new technology that may transform all that real estate Theaters owns into the arcades of the future.  
Maria Gurova

Instagram to ramp up efforts to lure small businesses - FT.com - 1 views

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Social Media social networks Economy monetization ad market maker movement entrepreneurship digital advertising one-click purchase buy now micro-moments Hyper Consumerism accessibility big data manipulation Technology advertising to kids

shared by Maria Gurova on 08 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • When we launched ads two years ago, ads were available in just eight countries. In September, we opened for business in around 200 countries
  • Facebook’s global sales team was beginning to push Instagram’s advertising to small businesses, providing them with the ability to target marketing at particular users
  • that international expansion was a priority, with 75 per cent of its more than 400m users based outside the US
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  • it has said that its second-largest market outside its home country is Brazil, where it has about 29m users. On Monday, it announced that it has 9m users in Germany and has previously said that it has more than 14m users in the UK
  • Analysts only just started releasing their estimates last year, suggesting the app could generate between $1.2bn and $2bn in sales in 2016
  • Instagram’s monthly active user base could reach up to 520m by the end of 2016.
  • Instagram launched an advertising format that allowed marketers to include links to their products and websites. The so-called “carousel adverts” allow a brand to display several images at once and use a “learn more” button to lead consumers to its own sit
  • the company had no immediate plans to introduce a “Buy” button, similar to the one that Facebook has been trialling. Retailers want the group to introduce functions that will allow users to purchase products seen through the app
  • Instagram is attractive to advertisers partly because of its popularity with hard-to-reach teenagers.
  • A lobbying push by big technology groups, including Facebook, helped to water down the proposed ban. National governments will now be able to reduce the age at which personal data may be used to 13
  • Maria Gurova on 08 Feb 16
     
    Instagram is now focusing on leveraging more of the parent company resources to increase app's monetization through ad sales. Therefore making their ad features available on the international markets and focusing on the smaller companies and entrepreneurs 
evgeny lavrov

2050 Demographics Projections | Prediction | Future | Technology | Timeline | Trend | 2... - 0 views

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demographics future technology KE CIS entertainment robotics

shared by evgeny lavrov on 14 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • the average desktop computer now has the raw processing power equivalent to all of the human brains on Earth combined
  • There is no longer a clear distinction between human and machine intelligence
  • Full immersion VR is now a mainstream phenomenon
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  • Entire new societies have formed in cyberspace
  • By the mid-2050s, traditional Western news corporations no longer exist
  • News gathering, analysis and distribution has fragmented - shifting to millions of creative individuals, bloggers, citizen journalists and small-scale enterprises.
  • Traditional Western TV channels have largely disappeared
  • replaced by unique "personalised" web channels, covering practically any subject or combination of subjects imaginable
  • Debates are now occurring over "synthetic people" entering the population.
Maria Gurova

Rentals Delivered By Drone Could Make Ownership Obsolete | TechCrunch - 0 views

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Technology ownership Amazon Prime Air robotics Economy

shared by Maria Gurova on 04 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Today, the most convenient way to have access to something you want is to own it and keep it where you live. That's because the process of having something delivered is too costly, cumbersome, and slow to do every time you need it.
  • Still, people don't want things soon. They want them NOW. A 30-minute Amazon Prime Air is the closest approximation of “now” we've seen yet.
  • Yet the greatest impact of robotic delivery might not be owning things quicker, but rather not having to own them in the first place. That's because once you can have something approximately now, the functional difference between ownership and rental disappears
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  • Maybe we'll 3D print what we currently buy. And there will always be things too big to be conveniently shlepped around. But eventually, I'd bet it won't be humans delivering the pizzas, tools, electronics, clothes, and many other things we buy or borrow today.
  • We might buy less stuff and all objects would spend more of their existence being used rather than in a closet, so we wouldn't have to manufacture as many copies of things
  • Perhaps most exciting of all is what the transition from owning to sharing could mean for our psyches
Maria Gurova

Google Glass Gets Foursquare, TripIt and OpenTable Apps - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 15 May 14 - No Cached
  • Google Glass just got a whole lot more useful for travel. The connected headset now has official apps for Foursquare, TripIt and OpenTable.
  • TripIt inserts its trip updates and information in the Google Now cards that already appear on Glass. Your flight status, departure time and gate will all appear on a single card
  • Open Table has its own command: "Okay Glass, make a reservation...." Once you speak those words, a selection of nearby restaurants will appear, ready for you to scroll through
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  • The current version of Google's Field Trip sends you notifications about surrounding points of interest, but the upgrade, released in April, lets you specifically ask what's nearby.
  • Word Lens completes the travel package. The app has been on Glass since last November, but its augmented-reality translation abilities are arguably perfectly suited for smart glasses. With Glass, all you need to do is look at a sign or menu, aim Glass' camera so the text you need translated is in an onscreen rectangle, and the words will change — from, say, Italian to English — before your eyes
evgeny lavrov

Forty years from now ... | Smarter Cities | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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KE Technology Social cities smarthomes entertainment

shared by evgeny lavrov on 14 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • people won't have to go anywhere to have a great evening out
  • Our entertainment will come to us.
  • turn her bedroom into a virtual evening out.
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  • 3D holographic imaging
  • "By 2050, you'll be able to invite your aunt from Australia for Sunday lunch
Anton Vorykhalov

Stealth Ads on Instagram Not Just Limited to Posts by Celebs | Digital Trends - 0 views

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AdMarket DCP

shared by Anton Vorykhalov on 01 Dec 16 - No Cached
  • Undisclosed ads on Instagram are no longer just limited to posts by celebs
  • General users may be able to make the distinction when they see a Kardashian, for example, posing with a brand of tea they’ve never heard of. But the problem now facing the FTC and Instagram is that these types of posts are no longer limited to celebs and influencers. In fact, marketers are now targeting regular users, or what they term “microinfluencers” by offering them free products in exchange for social media posts.
  • The letter highlights two websiteS in particular, operated by Influenster and Bzzagent, that encourage users to share posts in which they’re seen using a free product. In exchange, the so-called “microinfluencer” receives even more freebies from brands including Maybelline, BITE beauty, Kleenex, and International Delight. Anyone with a social media account can join the websites and receive free products.
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  • On its home page, Influenster (which sends out boxes filled with cosmetics to its members) claims to have more than 2 million “socially active trendsetters.”
Oleg Batluk

UBC students win $180,000 playing eSport League of Legends - 0 views

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shared by Oleg Batluk on 31 May 16 - No Cached
  • UBC become arguably the top eSports schools in North America
  • What started as a casual club fueled by passion for the game quickly became a top competitive team in North America. Now the team’s members are being rewarded for all their practice with about $30,000 each thanks to their NACC victory
  • “I would play anywhere from 4-8 hours a day, and that’s just individual. Every weekend [the team] would play around 12 hours, six on Saturday and six on Sunday. Essentially a full-time job, I would say in my first two to three years of university I probably played 30-40 hours a week
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  • The question asked now for these high-level eSports players is the same as any athlete: what’s next
  • With eSports, you practice as a team, you have to spend just as many hours as a professional athlete.
  • ou have to play on a big stage in front of a lot of people. It’s really stressful
  • Oleg Batluk on 31 May 16
     
    Cybersportsman has to spend siginificant time of his life to be successful with the same level of stress as profeccionals from physical sports have
Maria Gurova

Tesla's New Battery Could Solve One of Solar Power's Biggest Problems - 0 views

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Technology Environment alternative energy renewable energy solar energy Energy Independence utilities Transformative Energy Storage Tesla

shared by Maria Gurova on 23 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • What’s happening in Hawaii is actually indicative of what’s going to be an issue everywhere as many cities start to see an increase in large-scale solar implementation: There’s going to be too much energy generated, and nowhere to put it.
  • The absolute best idea is for homeowners to start installing batteries that can store the power for later use instead of giving the power back to the utilities, something called peak load shaving.
  • Right now, Tesla’s batteries are about about $300 per kWh, which is comparable to the market rate the industry expected for 2020.
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  • homeowners will now very easily be able to achieve complete energy independence. You could store your power for off-peak usage, and you might be able to sell your excess energy to a neighbor
Oleg Batluk

Facebook Says Its Artificial Intelligence Will Be Like A Car For Your Mind | Popular Sc... - 0 views

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facebook CIS AI neural net social for disabled Human Machine interface accessibility

shared by Oleg Batluk on 06 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), the division within the company dedicated to AI
  • some are new, like a working unsupervised learning model
  • The company has made substantial investment in artificial intelligence in the last few years
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  • Most recently Facebook has shown off a new addition for blind users
  • where we are right now in AI development. We're in the literal infancy
  • Facebook reports that it the neural net can now judge with up to 90 percent accuracy if the blocks will fall, and they claim that's better than most humans.
  • Oleg Batluk on 06 Nov 15
     
    Facebook made experiments showing AI smarter than humans and presented social solutions for blind people
alexbelov

The Mobile Electorate - 0 views

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Political Social elections

shared by alexbelov on 26 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • This new, mobilized — and mobile-ized — electorate is a force to be reckoned with. As we head into the primaries, the sturdiness of these digital grassroots will be tested to their limit. Some of the most vocal campaigners in this race have never attended a rally, or even voted before. They’ve contributed every piece of their support — from fundraising to partisan point-scoring — via a screen. The significant change since 2012 is the size of that screen.
  • alexbelov on 26 Feb 16
     
    Traditional political campaign budgets are reduced, the candidates' supporters can be reached via the Internet, which is accessed by most of the users from their mobile devices now. The political message delivery system has completely changed. Candidates who use these new channels have a competitive advantage.
al_semenchenko

Jeff Bezos' Space Program Successfully Lands A Rocket | TechCrunch - 1 views

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Technology science travel space tourism space tech

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  • al_semenchenko on 30 Nov 15
     
    Road to Space tourism is now open. In a few years such flights will be common practice for people looking for a thrill. One more step in conquering Earth's orbit.
Maria Gurova

Star Wars Characters Will Now Teach Your Kids To Code | WIRED - 1 views

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  • Today, as part of its annual Hour of Code event, Code.org is launching a free online tutorial that prompts kids to build their own games, based on characters in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
  • where they’ll learn to write code to design their own games featuring characters like R2-D2 ad C-3PO.
  • Of the 5 million students currently registered on Code.org, around 2 million are girls and around 2 million are black or Hispanic.
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  • That’s one reason why the Hour of Code tutorial, which is available to anyone online, focuses on the film’s prominent female characters, instead of, say Han Solo or Luke Skywalker.
  • Maria Gurova on 10 Nov 15
     
    New collaboration between Code.org that spread the popularity of coding among kids and Disney. This time featuring SW franchise 
Vladimir Antonov

BMW Vision Next 100 shows future of BMW - Business Insider - 1 views

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AI Technology automotive interaction

shared by Vladimir Antonov on 10 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • body of the concept car is designed to maximize aerodynamic efficiency and is constructed primarily out of recycled materials
  • BMW has also eliminated to wood and leather from the its interiors to promote sustainable manufacturing.
  • The BMW design study also incorporates full autonomous and manual driving modes, called "Ease" and "Boost" modes.
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  • In Ease mode, the car is fully autonomous, and the driver the able to sit back let the machine do the driving.
  • Boost mode affords the driver the opportunity to push the performance boundaries of the BMW at his or own pleasure. It's the traditional BMW driving experience. 
  • future of automobiles will be built upon four pillars
  • Artificial intelligence and intuitive technology
  • future cars will be able to learn, think and interact in a more human-like manner. 
  • future technology will be seamlessly integrated into the usage experience in way that the driver may not even know he or she is interacting with technology
  • According to BMW, the development of carbon fiber and composite parts along with new manufacturing techniques like 4D printing may render old-fashioned pressed steel obsolete.
  • mobility will remain an emotional experience
  • BMWs will remain driver focused
  • Features such as autonomous drive are key because they keep the brand at the forefront technological development. But they may threaten the driver-centric, pleasure-of-driving ethos BMW has built for itself over the past 100 years
  • Vladimir Antonov on 10 Mar 16
     
    1. BMW probably won't be exist in 100 years from now :) 2. Those cars will be on our roads much much sooner 
alexbelov

Bank layoffs are coming due to Uberisation of the industry - Business Insider - 2 views

uk.businessinsider.com/bank-layoffs-are-coming-2016-3

Social economy banking automation bank layoffs

shared by alexbelov on 01 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Banks are quickly approaching their "automation tipping point," and they could soon reduce headcount by as much as 30%.
  • "Banks' Uber moment will mean a disintermediation of bank branches rather than the banks themselves
  • it will mean the shift to mobile distribution being the main channel of interaction between customers and the bank
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  • The job cuts Citi is describing would add up to more than 1.8 million job losses from current levels in the banking sector in the US and Europe over the next 10 years.
  • As more transactions are automated and done on a mobile phone, we believe there will be a rebalancing of staff from transaction-based roles to advisory-based roles
  • alexbelov on 01 Apr 16
     
    Clients do transactions using their mobile phones now which allows banks to massively reduce their staff.
Oleg Batluk

Office Space: Your last status update may cost you a shot at a new job | Reading Eagle ... - 0 views

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CIS Social afordable monsters facebook survey

shared by Oleg Batluk on 05 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • A new survey from OfficeTeam reveals the top social media mistakes that could cost professionals an opportunity when interviewing for a new job
  • Forty-five percent of HR managers agreed that negative, inappropriate or offensive comments are the most common social media faux pas that eliminate candidates from the running
  • the greatest offense is posting or being tagged in inappropriate, risque or questionable photos
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  • a lack of social media activity or presence is the greatest offense
  • no credit is bad credit
  • Social media profiles should be seen like a credit score
  • Candidates should change the way they handle their accounts
  • excess of photos may give the impression of an inflated ego and off-put hiring managers
  • Always remember to untag yourself from any photos that may raise eyebrows
  • Oleg Batluk on 05 Apr 16
     
    Social media profiles are now seen like a credit score by HR specialists making applicants consider changing their social network life
isoldatenkova

Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better | World... - 1 views

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Technology privacy social Economy

shared by isoldatenkova on 12 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives.
  • In our city we don't pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.
  • Shopping? I can't really remember what that is. For most of us, it has been turned into choosing things to use. Sometimes I find this fun, and sometimes I just want the algorithm to do it for me. It knows my taste better than I do by now.
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  • Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.
isoldatenkova

Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good - The New York Times - 0 views

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Technology education science social kids

shared by isoldatenkova on 10 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • The rich have grown afraid of screens. They want their children to play with blocks, and tech-free private schools are booming. Humans are more expensive, and rich people are willing and able to pay for them.
  • classes have been replaced by software, much of the academic day now spent in silence on a laptop. In Utah, thousands of children do a brief, state-provided preschool program at home via laptop.
  • And children who spent more than two hours a day looking at a screen got lower scores on thinking and language tests,
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  • Human contact is becoming a luxury good.
  • Tech companies worked hard to get public schools to buy into programs that required schools to have one laptop per student, arguing that it would better prepare children for their screen-based future.
  • In Silicon Valley, time on screens is increasingly seen as unhealthy. Here, the popular elementary school is the local Waldorf School, which promises a back-to-nature, nearly screen-free education
isoldatenkova

Google backs a bid to use CRISPR to prevent heart disease - MIT Technology Review - 0 views

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science Biotechnology social

shared by isoldatenkova on 08 May 19 - No Cached
  • Ever wonder why some fortunate people eat chips, don’t exercise, and still don’t get clogged arteries? It could be because they’ve got lucky genes.
  • Now Alphabet (Google’s parent company) is bankrolling a startup company that plans to use gene editing to spread fortunate DNA variations with “one-time” injections of the gene-editing tool CRISPR.
  • Right now, to avoid heart disease you can pop statin pills, change your diet, and jump on an exercise bike. But people have a hard time sticking with it. The scientists at Verve think if they can install lucky genes in your body, you may not have to. Initially, Kathiresan says, the gene-editing treatment could be used on adults who have actually had a heart attack and want to avoid a second one.
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