Amazon makes London its Digital Media Innovation Hub

Amazon Announces London Digital Media Hub
PC Magazine
Amazon is not without its digital rivals in the U.K. Earlier this month, U.K. television provider BSkyB launched its NOW TV Internet service. That came several months after Netflix launched in the U.K. and Ireland for £5.99 a month in the U.K. and 6.99 Euros in ...

Amazon makes London its digital media development base
ZDNet (blog)
It will "focus on the creation of interactive digital services for TVs, game consoles, smartphones and PCs, the development of the digital media experience on Amazon websites around the world, and the building of services and APIs that power thatdigital media experience," Amazon said. London City ... Pushbutton develops user interfaces for watching media across a range of devices, and was already responsible for Lovefilm's PS3, LG and Sony smart TV apps by the time Amazon acquired it a year ago. It has since ...

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Amazon Digital Media Innovation Hub will push next-gen content delivery
SlashGear
Amazon is boosting its R&D work into digital media, including “interactive digitalservices” for consoles, smart TV, tablets and other mobile devices, with a new Digital Media Innovation Hub opening in the UK. The new 47000 sq. ft. center in Central London will ...

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Amazon Wants to Power Your Digital Media Experience
EcommerceBytes
A seasoned media executive, she launched Pushbutton in 2002 and has held a number of senior director-level roles in tech-related media companies and was responsible for launching a wide range of world-first interactive TV services. Pushbutton's website states ... Amazon is known for creating services it sells to other companies built on the expertise it gains building its online retail business (Amazon Web Services), and it plans to do the same with its digital media business. The new development center will also ...

EcommerceBytes

Amazon Opening TV and Movie Development Center in London
Gizmodo
We've known for some time that Amazon is planning to make original TV content. But now Bezos and co have announced that Amazon is turning its back on the US, instead choosing to develop a center in London to spearhead its move into media.

Amazon To House Global Digital Media Hub In London's Silicon Roundabout Area
Deadline.com
The Digital Media Development Center, according to managing director Paula Byrne, will “develop the next generation of TV and film services for a wide range of digital devices.” She further told Bloomberg that the goal is to ensure “every single person who is ...

Amazon pick London for digital media centre
Tech Digest
Amazon have picked London to be the home of their new digital media office. Located near the Barbican at Glasshouse Yard, the centre will bring together teams from Lovefilm and Pushbotton as they work on APIs for a range of digital services for tablets, ...

Amazon launches digital innovation centre in East London
Inquirer
"London is a hotbed of tech talent and testament to that fact is Amazon choosing the capital as the location for the new global Digital Media Development Centre," said Paula Byrne, managing director of the centre. "Innovation is part of the Amazon DNA and we are creating a British centre of excellence to design and develop the next generation of TV and film services for a wide range ofdigital devices." Software development engineers, graphic designers and user-interface experts will be based in the centre, which is ...

Amazon Ramps Up Global Expansion, Opens Massive Media R&D Center In ...
TechCrunch
As Amazon gears up for its quarterly earnings later this week, the company today has announced an expansion that points to its big ambitions in digital media, and an increasing focus on how that growth will come from outside the U.S.. Amazon is ...Founded in 2002, Pushbutton is the UK’s leading independent digital agency focused on interactive television content and services for new platforms including IPTV,internet-enabled TV sets, tablets, TV widgets, broadband Internet, satellite and cable. Learn more ...

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Amazon to open digital media tech hub in the UK
Develop (blog)
Online retailer and technology firm Amazon is to open a new digital media innovation hub in the UK, it has revealed. To be based ... Employees at the studio will work on the creation of interactive digital services for games consoles, smartphones, PCs and TV.
 
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Digital media get top marks as they bring a new kind of learning into the classroom
Evening Standard
However, that doesn't mean we're not communicating: the report also suggested that some 96 per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds are using digital media to stay in touch with friends and family on a daily basis. Given that, it's hardly surprising that digital andsocial media are becoming .... With more time spent online than ever before and more smartphones in students' pockets, social media platforms are inevitably going to find their way into the classroom. But with the right approach from schools, colleges and universities ...

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Online retail giant Amazon is to open an international design and development ...
CNET
Staff on-site will be working on creating interactive digital services for TVs, game consoles, smartphones and PCs; improving customer experience on Amazon Web sites around the world; and developing digital media services and APIs, Amazon said.

Amazon Opening London Office For Digital Streaming TV
Fast Company
The building will be home for the firm's Digital Media Development center, and Amazon notes that Britain has been in the lead for on-demand streaming rental of movies and TV content over the Net. Amazon's current LoveFilm and Pushbutton streaming ...

Amazon opens new international development center
TG Daily
The eight-floor, 47000 center will bring together software development engineers, user-interface experts and graphic designers from Amazon film and TV-on-demand companies Pushbutton and LoveFilm. They'll be working ... "London is a hotbed of tech talent and testament to that fact is Amazon choosing the capital as the location for the new global Digital Media Development Centre," says Paula Byrne, managing director of the center. "Innovation is ... 'Cat signal' marks launch ofInternet Defense League. Posted 3 ...

Amazon chooses London for major new digital media office
TechRadar UK
Amazon will open a new digital media development centre in London to work on keydigital projects for the global business. The project will bring teams from Lovefilm and Pushbutton together to work on interactive digital services for a range of modern ...

TechRadar UK

Amazon to combine Lovefilm, Pushbutton design and dev teams in new Digital ...
Digital Arts Online
Amazon will combine the design and development teams of two UK media companies it acquired last year to create a new Digital Media Development Centre in London. The internet ... Lovefilm was one of Pushbutton's clients and together they worked on a variety of digital innovations, including Lovefilm Instant, which offers members unlimited streaming of movies and TV series from £4.99 per month on over 280 internet-enabled devices including PCs, PlayStations, the iPad and the Xbox 360, Amazon said. London ...

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Amazon builds global Digital Media Development Centre
ChannelBiz
Paula Byrne, managing director of the Centre in London, said: “London is a hotbed of tech talent and testament to that fact is Amazon choosing the capital as the location for the new global Digital Media Development Centre. “Innovation is part of the Amazon DNA and we are creating a British centre of excellence to design and develop the next generation of TV and film services for a wide range of digital devices.” Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: “I am thrilled to welcome Amazon's fantastic new international ...

ChannelBiz

Amazon to open London digital hub
C21Media
Located in The Barbican area – near Old Street's 'Silicon Roundabout' start-up hub – the offices will house design and development teams from Amazon-owned VoD service LoveFilm and interactive TVspecialists Pushbutton. They will work on new digital ... “London is a hotbed of tech talent and testament to that fact is Amazon choosing the capital as the location for the new global digital media development centre,” said Byrne, adding that “innovation is part of the Amazon DNA.” Amazon bought Pushbutton last July.

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Amazon sets up new London-based digital innovations centre
Equimedia Marketing News
Based at the capital's Tech City base, the Digital Media Development Centre will become the new home for the company's range of design and development teams working on its online and media products such as LoveFilm and Pushbutton. London is being billed as the right place for the ecommerce giant to pursue development of its range of digital services for TV, phones and online, with London heralded as a “hotbed” of tech talent by centre manager Paula Byrne. “Innovation is part of the Amazon DNA and we ...

Equimedia Marketing News

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MarketWatch (press release)
"We are excited to bring our Xfinity TV customers NBCUniversal's coverage of every minute of every medal on every screen of the 2012 London Olympics," said Matt Strauss, Senior Vice President,Digital and Emerging Platforms, Comcast Cable. "Through ... As part of the vast majority of XfinityTV customers' video subscriptions, which include all Olympic television content, NBCUniversal is bringing Olympic content to subscribers live and on-demand, online, and on mobile and tablet devices via applications.

Amazon chooses London for its digital R&D base
HEXUS
The centre will be mostly involved with Amazon's digital media projects including games console, smartphone, tablet and smart TV digital services. Hundreds of employees will work at a new eight floor, 47000sqft office in Glasshouse Yard, Barbican. This is ...

HEXUS

Amazon to open London technology hub after announcing expansion plans
Metro
Online retail giant Amazon has announced plans to open a new centre in London where it will design and develop its next generation of TV and film services. Amazon, London Amazon is to open a new centre in London (Picture: PA). The US company announced plans to open its Digital Media Development Centre in the capital this week, claiming it was the 'obvious choice' as it looks to develop a range of interactivedigital services for TV, phones and computers. Situated nearby to Old Street's TechCity, the new ...

Metro

An Olympic Test for TV Everywhere, Not Just NBCU
Broadcasting & Cable
Making the digital distribution of content part of larger pay TV offerings has, in recent years, become central to the business strategies of both programmers and operators as a way to stave off the threat of over-the-top video, and boost their already lucrative pay TV business. ... "When it's all over, we hope that people will walk away thinking that NBC Olympics [coverage] raised the bar for whatdigital media can be." ... NBC has also created specific on-air promos to help drive viewers to itssocial media activities.

Turkey's D-Smart Selects KIT digital to Launch Over-the-Top Pay TV Service
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY and LONDON, Jul 23, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- KIT digital, Inc. (NASDAQ:KITD) , a leading video management software and services company, today announced that it has been selected by Turkish pay TV provider D-Smart to ... The KIT Video Platform, the company's cloud-based video asset management system, enables enterprise, media & entertainment and network operator clients to produce, manage and deliver multiscreen socially-enabled video experiences to audiences ...

Amazon to open digitial media R&D centre in London
Information Age
The company's 'Digital Media Development Centre', based in London's Barbican, will house the design and development teams from two UK companies that Amazon.com acquired last year: digitaldesign agency Pushbutton and online film rental service ...

TV broadcasters divided over social TV strategy
MediaTel Newsline
Leading TV and media companies are investing in social TV start-ups for an inside track on new business and viewer engagement models and to take more control over social TV. In January, BSkyB took a 10% stake in social TV start-up zeebox, which is ...

Amazon to open international media development center in London
TechSpot
Amazon has announced plans to combine the teams of the two UK-based media companies it purchased last year, creating job opportunities in the area and opening a new international center fordigital media development near Silicon Roundabout in central London, England. The new center will be fully ... innovation is part of the Amazon DNA, and we are creating a British center of excellence to design and develop the next generation of TV and film services for a wide range of digital devices." The plan will see ...

Online ad revenue 'may flow overseas'
Sydney Morning Herald
FACEBOOK and other global digital media companies will corner 33 per cent of the Australian advertising market by 2017, leaving domestic companies to compete over a smaller available advertising pool, a new report finds. Morgan Stanley has warned that investors ... With 44 per cent of the Australian population estimated to be on social media in 2012, Australia ranks as the fourth highest worldwide behind the US, Canada and South Korea, but ahead of the UK, Russia and Spain. ''And where consumers go … we ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Amazon to open digital media DC in London
Retail Gazette
Social Media Director. Posted 23 Mar 15:57 - GBP80000 - United Kingdom,London ... has been announced. A digital media development centre will be used by the design & development teams behind Amazon-owned companies LoveFilm and Pushbutton and will be based in Glasshouse Yard, near the Barbican tube station. ... “Innovation is part of the Amazon DNA and we are creating a British centre of excellence to design and develop the next generation of TV and film services for a wide range of digital devices.” ...

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The design and development teams from Pushbutton and LOVEFiLM , which are both Amazon companies, will come together to work on new digital media projects that will benefit Amazon customers all over the world. The eight-floor, 47000 sq. ft. centre in ... “Innovation is part of the Amazon DNA and we are creating a British centre of excellence to design and develop the next generation of TV and film services for a wide range of digital devices.” Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: ...
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Tech City: chosen by Amazon for its Digital Media Development Centre. The Digital MediaDevelopment Centre, based in Glasshouse Yard in Barbican, will house hundreds of Amazon technical staff. They will include software development engineers, user-interface experts and graphic designers, as well as the design and development teams from Pushbutton, the TV app company, and its online entertainment service, LoveFilm. The team will work on interactive digital services for TVs,...
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