Boko Haram Video Purports to Show Some Kidnapped Chibok Girls
U.S. News & World Report–26 minutes ago
LAGOS (Reuters) – The militant Islamist group Boko Haram released a video on Monday which purported to show some of the girls kidnapped from the … Abubakar Shekau – the leader of one of the group’s factions – also appears in the video, which was obtained by a U.S.-based journalism website, Sahara …
The Business Of Video Games: Streamers And Refereum
Forbes–Jan. 14, 2018
Last year I wrote a short series of articles about the video game industry. This year I am going to get things started with a similar series of articles. I am once again going to focus on the business side of the video game industry. Today’s article is about marketing and a new opportunity for people that live …
Lego Plans Video Games, Social Network for Chinese Children
U.S. News & World Report–2 hours ago
Toy maker Lego is partnering with China’s internet giant Tencent to offer games, video and possibly a social network aimed at children. The private company based in Copenhagen, Denmark, said Monday, Jan. 15, 2018 that the deal would combine Lego’s ability to create content with Tencent’s distribution …
Logan Paul Suicide Forest Video Controversy: A Timeline of Events
Billboard–Jan. 5, 2018
YouTube star Logan Paul has been all over the news this past week, due to the controversy surrounding a video posted to his YouTube channel where he filmed a video inside Japan’s “suicide forest” which featured the body of man who had committed suicide. The video has since been deleted, but the …
For Digital Publishers, The “Pivot To Video” Bloodbath Is Here
Fast Company–Jan. 12, 2018
Earlier this month, an article in Digiday raised plenty of eyebrows with an interview with an anonymous audience-development head who alluded to a near future where Facebook begins de-emphasizing video. For the last year, multiple publishers performed the “pivot to video”–devoting more resources to …
Not ‘fake news’: BC startup taps into sports publishers’ hunger for video
Business in Vancouver–Jan. 8, 2018
Last fall the company unveiled the full release of an AI-powered tool that scans the text of articles and immediately matches the most relevant video content to be displayed in a video player on the website. “When you’re dealing with resource-constrained publishers — and by that I mean, their editors and …
This Analyst’s K-Pop Dance Is Turning Heads in Hong Kong
Bloomberg–9 hours ago
The video had more than 6,600 views as of Monday. On Friday, views of his biography on the Bloomberg terminal exceeded those of U.S. President Donald Trump’s at one point. Ip said some fund managers have reached out to him because of the video — but mostly to discuss power stocks. Ip practiced the …
Excessive Video Gaming to be Named Mental Disorder by WHO
U.S. News & World Report–Dec. 26, 2017
WHO’s beta draft of its upcoming 11th update of International Classification of Diseases characterizes gaming disorder as “a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour (‘digital gaming’ or ‘video-gaming’), which may be online (i.e., over the internet) or offline, manifested by: 1) impaired control over …
WATCH: Scary moment plane skids over cliff edge as passengers …
Express.co.uk–20 hours ago
The plane, a Pegasus Airline Boeing 737, left the runway and instead hurtled down the side of the cliff face. Giving the term cliff hanger a terrifying real significance, the passenger plane was left dangling on the steep side of a cliff. The video, at first, shows simply a plane runway located next to the vast Black …
Taylor Swift’s ‘End Game’ Music Video Hits the Web: Fans React
Billboard–Jan. 11, 2018
Taylor Swift’s music video for “End Game” is off to a flying start, as fans pour over each glance, search for clues and soak it all up. “End Game” immediate began trending on social media as fans flocked to the clip and shared their (mostly positive) thoughts. Some found some hidden Easter Eggs. But did they …
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