Variety reports: “San Francisco-based augmented reality (AR) startup Ubiquity6 publicly launched its Displayland mobile app for iOS and Android Monday, giving everyone the ability to capture objects and places in 3D and share those 3D assets with the app’s other users.”
Hollywood Reporter reports: “After recently selling his remaining stake in Lionsgate, billionaire investor and media mogul John Malone has acquired more stock of Discovery in what is believed to be his largest or one of his largest open-market purchases of the stock ever.”
Billboard reports: “Bits of detail surrounding ByteDance’s planned music streaming service are trickling in, with a new report outlining some specific ways the TikTok owner plans on incorporating social media into the app.”
Deadline reports: “John Legere, the CEO and high-energy pitchman for T-Mobile, will step down next April after overseeing the close of the wireless provider’s merger with Sprint.”
Variety reports: “Hulu With Live TV has edged out Dish Network’s Sling TV to take the crown as the biggest virtual pay-television service in the U.S., according to new analyst estimates. They were among the only winners amid the cord-cutting carnage that slashed through the sector in the third quarter.”
TechCrunch reports: “TikTok is beginning to dabble in social commerce. The short-form video app said it has started to allow some users to add links to e-commerce sites (or any other destination) to their profile biography as well as offer creators the ability to easily send their viewers to shopping websites.”
gamesindustry.biz reports: “Bungie Foundation, the developer’s official charity, has raised $1.6 million for children in hospitals in the US and Canada.”
Variety reports: “Shari Redstone is emphatic: ViacomCBS has plenty of resources and the scale to compete in the new world order for media giants.”
Hollywood Reporter reports: “On Thursday, Disney and Redbox informed a California federal judge that it had come to a settlement to end a two-year-old lawsuit that raised novel issues regarding sales and licensing restrictions in the digital age.”
Hollywood Reporter reports: “Better scripts, nuanced characters and realistic performance-capture techniques are drawing Keanu Reeves, Norman Reedus and others toward the $43 billion-plus industry: ‘There are increasingly blurred lines between what is a film and what is a game.'”
