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| 06.03.2026 | Amazon’s new Fire TV interface helps you find something to watch faster | Amazon just gave Fire TV a much-needed makeover. The company has announced a redesigned user interface, a revamped mobile app, and a brand-new lifestyle TV called the Amazon Ember Artline. The star of the show is the new interface, so let’s... |
| 17.03.2025 | Эта статья опоздала лет на двадцать: музыкальный центр с CD-караоке, радио и блютусом на ESP32 своими руками | Пожалуй, самый любимый мой аудиоформат — это CD Audio. Все плюсы цифрового звука: он либо читается идеально, либо не читается совсем — в отличие от кассет и катушек, кинематику проигрывателей которых нужно то и дело обслуживать. При этом и ... |
| 11.02.2025 | Незаслуженно забытый: Sony Giga Juke NAS-E300HD. Шедевральный аудиовинтаж | С чем у вас ассоциируется Sony? Кто-то обязательно вспомнит про телевизоры Bravia и японское качество. Кому-то игровые консоли Sony с детства подарили немало положительных эмоций. Ну а для меня Sony всегда ассоциировалась с хорошим звуком и... |
| 05.09.2024 | The Egg Price Rollercoaster: A Market in Turmoil | Egg prices are soaring again. The reasons are as complex as a well-cooked omelet. A recent bird flu outbreak and a surge in consumer demand are squeezing supplies. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports wholesale egg prices surpassed $3... |
| 04.09.2024 | New Gracenote Watch Prompts dataset helps video providers drive audience tune-in and engagement | Leveraging AI and human editorial expertise, Watch Prompts complements Gracenote Video Descriptors to deliver facts, talent call-outs and content comparisons
NEW YORK, Sept. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Gracenote, the content solutions business ... |
| 02.08.2024 | France's rebooted medals strategy pays off with home advantage boost | Previous
FILE PHOTO: Former general manager of the French national handball team Claude Onesta, French President Emmanuel Macron and French Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu speak during the inauguration of a new handball complex in Cretei... |
| 28.07.2024 | The Price of Glory: U.S. Olympians Struggle to Fund Their Dreams | The Olympic dream is a shimmering prize, but for many U.S. athletes, it comes with a hefty price tag. A recent congressional report reveals that American athletes often bear the financial burden of their pursuit, averaging nearly $12,000 a ... |
| 26.07.2024 | Olympics | Chasing the Olympic dream isn’t cheap, and US athletes often are stuck with the bill | A recent congressional report finds that, on average, U.S. athletes must come up with nearly $12,000 a year to supplement their funding. “This means that, effectively, many of America’s most talented athletes must pay for the privilege of c... |
| 24.07.2024 | From Biles to Sha’Carri, Team USA packed with star power heading into Olympics | The 27-year-old Biles leads a U.S. women’s gymnastics team filled with familiar faces and looking for redemption in Paris. The team settled for silver three years ago behind the Russian athletes competing as the Russian Olympic Committee.Si... |
| 11.05.2024 | WIO Taps Gracenote to Revolutionize Television Broadcast Reporting | LOS ANGELES, May 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- WIO LLC, parent company of the global TV broadcast airings platform, WIOpro™, has announced a new strategic agreement with Gracenote, the global content data business unit of Nielsen, to address the... |
| 25.04.2024 | Ed Warner: How do we value sport and the draw of much needed money | After World Athletics announced it would be paying its Olympic gold medallists, a fresh debate has opened up around money for our athletes and the draw of cash in sport for bodies. Ed Warner writes.
The British Olympic Association seats its... |
| 15.12.2021 | Nielsen : Gracenote expands content analytics capabilities with launch of Audience Predict | Emeryville, CA - Dec. 8, 2021 - Gracenote, the content solutions pillar of Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN), has unveiled Audience Predict, a new content analytics tool that forecasts potential future entertainment programming performance. Leveraging i... |
| 23.09.2021 | Nielsen : IPG Mediabrands Taps Gracenote to Support Client Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives | Emeryville, CA and New York, NY - Sept. 23, 2021 - Gracenote, a Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN) company, announced that IPG Mediabrands, a client-led, consulting-first, community-driven marketing agency, has licensed the Gracenote Inclusion Analytics ... |
| 12.08.2021 | Gracenote launches 'Audience Predict' tool to gauge content performance | EMERYVILLE, Calif. – Gracenote, the content solutions pillar of Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN), has unveiled Audience Predict, a new content analytics tool that forecasts potential future entertainment programming performance. Leveraging industry-lea... |
| 06.01.2021 | Gracenote Powers New Live Sports Experiences for Smart TV and Auto Platforms | |
| 03.11.2018 | A long and winding road to new copyright legislation | Dave Davis Contributor
Dave Davis joined Copyright Clearance Center in 1994 and currently serves as a research analyst. He previously held directorships in both public libraries and corporate libraries and earned joint master’s degrees in L... |
| 23.05.2018 | Gracenote taps machine learning to classify individual song styles | Media metadata company Gracenote is embracing machine learning and audio analysis as it focuses on helping music-streaming providers identify music styles on a track-by-track basis.
Genre classification is a relatively easy task for most mu... |
| 23.05.2018 | Gracenote taps machine learning to classify individual song styles | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Media metadata company Gracenote is embracing mac... |
| 23.02.2017 | Now part of Nielsen, Gracenote has unified its video, music and sports databases | Media metadata company Gracenote is looking to be the one-stop data provider for TV providers, device manufacturers and various media distribution services. To do so, the company has unified its vast stores of music, video and sports data i... |
| 23.02.2017 | Media metadata firm Gracenote unifies databases spanning video, music, and sports | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Media metadata firm Gracenote is today launching ... |
| 23.02.2017 | Media metadata firm Gracenote unifies databases spanning video, music, and sports | Media metadata firm Gracenote is today launching what it calls the “world’s largest unified entertainment database,” spanning sports, music, and video. The move comes just a couple of months after the company was acquired by Nielsen.
Founde... |
| 20.12.2016 | Nielsen will acquire Tribune-owned Gracenote for $560M | Tribune Media Company announced today that it has agreed to sell Gracenote (which provides metadata around TV, music and other media) to Nielsen.
Gracenote says it provides the data for 12 million movie and TV listings and more than 200 mil... |
| 20.12.2016 | Term Sheet — Monday, December 19 | THE TRUMP CONUNDRUM
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It was a potent sentiment shared throughout the tech in... |
| 09.09.2015 | Gracenote launches DVR Extend for cable companies, keeps recording live sports that enter overtime | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Media metadata company Gracenote is today launchi... |
| 09.09.2015 | Gracenote launches DVR Extend for cable companies, keeps recording live sports that enter overtime | Media metadata company Gracenote is today launching a new product designed to ensure sports fans never miss the end of a big game on TV.
With DVR Extend, Gracenote is effectively mashing its TV and Sports data together to help predict when ... |
| 27.06.2015 | The SaaSing Of The Music Business | Ethan Kaplan Contributor
Ethan Kaplan is the general manager for music at Gracenote.
The music business is about to undergo another seismic shift. And Apple’s streaming service is the tsunami that will force the industry to rebuild. Again.
... |
| 28.05.2015 | Gracenote Spent $54 Million Buying Two Companies To Launch A New Sports Data Product | Music and video metadata company Gracenote is launching a new product for a new vertical, getting into sports data for the first time. To power the new sports product the company has acquired a couple of companies — Infostrada and SportsDir... |
| 28.05.2015 | Gracenote expands its media metadata platform into sports with the $54M acquisition of 2 data firms | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Media metadata company Gracenote has acquired two... |
| 28.05.2015 | Gracenote expands its media metadata platform into sports with the $54M acquisition of 2 data firms | Media metadata company Gracenote has acquired two sports data firms — Netherlands-based Infostrada Sports and Canada-based SportsDirect — signalling its expansion beyond music and video data. The dual-acquisition will set Gracenote back “ap... |
| 13.11.2014 | Gracenote’s new Entourage platform unifies your car’s AM/FM, satellite, & online radio stations | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Music metadata company Gracenote is launching a n... |
| 13.11.2014 | Gracenote’s new Entourage platform unifies your car’s AM/FM, satellite, & online radio stations | Music metadata company Gracenote is launching a new platform today that will allow drivers to manage various sources of music from a car’s dashboard entertainment unit.
The platform, called Entourage Radio, is essentially trying to abolish ... |
| 02.10.2014 | Gracenote Acquires Australian Metadata Provider HWW for $19 Million | Another day, another Gracenote acquisition. The Tribune-owned entertainment information company has bought yet another metadata provider — this time Australia’s HWW for $19 million USD. The purchase is designed to extend Gracenote’s reach i... |
| 02.10.2014 | Gracenote targets Australia with $19M buy-up of TV & movie data provider HWW | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Data company Gracenote is continuing its internat... |
| 02.10.2014 | Gracenote targets Australia with $19M buy-up of TV & movie data provider HWW | Data company Gracenote is continuing its international expansion with the purchase today of rival metadata service HWW.
HWW is one of the leading providers of TV and movie metadata (cast lists, production details, genres, and more) services... |
| 03.09.2014 | Gracenote buys rival Baseline for $50M to enhance its movie & TV data services | Providing the metadata for movies and TV shows (cast list, plot descriptions, thumbnails, etc.) is big business, and it’s one that Gracenote is serious about leading.
Putting its money where its mouth is, Tribune Media-owned Gracenote annou... |
| 03.09.2014 | Gracenote buys rival Baseline for $50M to enhance its movie & TV data services | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Providing the metadata for movies and TV shows (c... |
| 26.08.2014 | Gracenote eyes video data with DreamWorks Animation vet as its new CEO | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Gracenote is ramping up plans to expand beyond it... |
| 26.08.2014 | Gracenote eyes video data with DreamWorks Animation vet as its new CEO | Gracenote is ramping up plans to expand beyond its roots as a music metadata service, and as such has brought on a new head honcho.
Gracenote is best known for supplying metadata (artist info, albums, songs, etc.) to companies and services ... |
| 06.03.2014 | Spotify Acquires The Echo Nest, Gaining Control Of The Music DNA Company That Powers Its Rivals | Spotify has acquired The Echo Nest, as revealed by an official blog post today. The financial details of the acquisition haven’t been revealed, but The Echo Nest is a self-described “music intelligence company” that does things like determi... |
| 05.03.2014 | Gracenote Teams With Musicmetric To Bring Social Data To Its Rhythm Music-Recommendation Platform | Today Gracenote announced that Rhythm, its Internet radio and music recommendation service, is becoming a bit smarter with new inclusion of social data from Musicmetric.
Rhythm is a white-label service that helps companies and brands create... |
| 03.02.2014 | Tribune Has Closed Its Acquisition Of Gracenote… Here’s What Comes Next | In late December, Tribune announced its plans to acquire Gracenote from Sony for $170 million in cash and to combine the company with its Tribune Media Services business. More specifically, Gracenote will be part of a recently formed busine... |
| 03.01.2014 | Gracenote Rhythm lets brands create their own streaming radio platform | Gracenote, which provides musical data for a slew of top streaming services, is launching a new platform today that will enable brands to launch their own music services.
The company was just acquired by Tribune Media for $170 million, and ... |
| 03.01.2014 | Gracenote Rhythm lets brands create their own streaming radio platform | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Gracenote, which provides musical data for a slew... |
| 19.06.2013 | Gracenote’s New TV Sync API Could Spawn Indie Second-Screen Apps | Imagine watching a classic mystery film or seasons of Lost while using a second-screen app that gives you unofficial insights and conspiracy theories as their plots move along. That’s the promise of Gracenote’s new audio fingerprinting API ... |
| 14.03.2013 | In Post-CD Era, Gracenote Makes a Big Business of Content Recognition | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For Gracenote, the media database company, Christmas used to be the busiest day of the year. They called it “iPod Day,” because that was when millions of people would be unwra... |
| 26.12.2012 | Gracenote’s Ad Replacement System That Personalizes TV Commercials Will Start Trials In 2013 | Most TV commercials are poorly targeted and show things you’d never buy. But not for long. Gracenote‘s new ad replacement system combines viewing habits with personal info to show you more relevant commercials. Gracenote will demo it at CES... |
| 26.12.2012 | Gracenote rolling out a custom ad service for TV commericals | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The biggest problem I have with traditional telev... |
| 12.12.2012 | Web Music Playlist Maker Musicplayr Launches iOS Application | Following its €500,000 seed round this fall, Berlin-based music startup Musicplayr, which acts something like a playlist of tracks you build from various cloud services, is now available as an iOS application. The app brings the key feature... |
| 19.10.2012 | Web Music Playlist Creator Musicplayr Grabs €500,000 In Seed Funding, Launches To Public | Berlin-based music startup Musicplayr, which offers a service that allows users to collect and listen to songs from YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo, DailyMotion and music blogs, is now exiting its private beta period, and opening up to all users... |
| 24.06.2012 | Jail For File-Sharing Not Enough, Labels Want ISP-Level Spying Regime | Earlier this week, Japan approved an amendment to its Copyright Law that will soon give the authorities the power to jail Internet users for up to two years for simply downloading copyright material.
Uploading copyright material has been il... |
| 10.01.2012 | Twitter gives developers new access to Verified Accounts | Twitter has just announced a new pilot program that will give developers access to the handles and metadata for Verified Accounts.
Verified Accounts are Twitter accounts held by persons of note — musicians, actors, celebrities and other pub... |
| 16.05.2011 | Keen On… Will The Music Revolution Be Streamed? (TCTV) | For the third set of interviews from last week’s excellent SFMusicTech event, I talk with David Hyman, the current CEO of MOG, the co-founder of Addicted to Noise, former CEO of Gracenote and one of the smartest and most experienced pioneer... |
| 12.04.2011 | TuneUp Media Moves Beyond Music Cleanup Into Sharing and Information Discovery | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Back in 2008, TuneUp Media in San Francisco created a piece of software so cool that more than 3 million people have registered to use it. The freemium program sifts through y... |
| 04.06.2010 | Blue Chip Venture Co. in Indianapolis … That’s Allos, to you | “We started fundraising for Blue Chip V in the spring of 2008,” Rosenberg said about Blue Chip’s fifth fund. About six months later, the world economy collapsed, sending fund investors into hiding.
Even after institutional investors started... |
| 15.04.2010 | Apple Introduces us to a New iTunes "Concert Ticket +" System
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Event tickets may provide entry to events as well as other benefits. A person using an event ticket may also have one or more electronic devices. However, event tickets may be lost or misplaced, may not easily be trans... |
| 31.10.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: The Web in 5 Years, Hulu’s Plans, Google Wave Use Cases, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze how Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks the Web will evolve, review Hulu’s latest plans to make money, investigate use cases for Google Wa... |
| 28.10.2009 | Google Launches Music Search: Partners with MySpace, Lala, Gracenote and Others | Google has just announced the launch of Google Music. This new service is powered by Lala and MySpace’s iLike. Other partners include Gracenote, iMeem, Pandora and Rhapsody. Google has also partnered with the major music labels: EMI, Sony M... |
| 13.10.2009 | MOG signs deals with four major music labels, independents | MOG, the Berekely, CA-based music-blogging site launched in 2006 with hitmaker Rick Rubin as one of its advisors, has announced that it will launch MOG All Access, a new digital music service for North America, by Thanksgiving. To create th... |
| 03.08.2009 | Midomi lets you identify and search for music, hits No. 1 iPhone paid music app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Midomi, a mobile application that lets you identify songs by singing into the phone, today became the No. 1 paid music application on t... |
| 03.08.2009 | Midomi lets you identify and search for music, hits No. 1 iPhone paid music app | Midomi, a mobile application that lets you identify songs by singing into the phone, today became the No. 1 paid music application on the iPhone.
Tomorrow, the company will also announce it has raised $4 million in fresh venture capital fun... |
| 18.06.2009 | Sony to launch web-connected movie trivia Blu-ray app in September | Sony announced today that it will launch MovieIQ, a service that delivers up movie trivia and information to Blu-ray movie watchers.
The new service will launch in September on Blu-ray devices that can hook up to the Internet to fetch data ... |
| 29.04.2009 | Why the inclusion of Gracenote 'Blu-ray' in iTunes 8.2 beta is nothing | Thanks to the fine-toothed comb that the Mac faithful run over their updates, readers of MacRumors noticed a passage contained within the iTunes 8.2 beta "About iTunes" window that references DVD and Blu-ray.
Because iTunes does n... |
| 15.12.2008 | Top 10 Mobile Web Products of 2008 | Looking back on 2008, we can definitely call it the year of the Mobile Web. That designation, in large part, is due to the success of the iPhone. Although the iPhone was originally launched in 2007, it wasn’t until mid-2008 that the 3G vers... |
| 11.12.2008 | TuneUp Brings Its iTunes Cleanup Wizard To The Mac | TuneUp, an iTunes plugin that helps correct wrong or missing song meta data and album art (and also offers a number of complementary features) has released a Mac-compatible version to the public.
We originally covered TuneUp last May (click... |
| 12.05.2008 | TuneUp Brings Order To Your iTunes Library (For a Fee) | Would you pay someone to add all the correct song titles and cover art to the songs in your iTunes library? TuneUp is an iTunes plugin that aims to make cleaning up your music library as easy as drag-and-drop. The program attempts to automa... |
| 22.04.2008 | Sony Buys Gracenote for $260M | Sony has agreed to acquire Gracenote for about $260M.
Gracenote provides a range of music-related solutions including MusicID, which detects which song is currently being played by an application and loads track information for the user (su... |
| 07.02.2008 | Gracenote Partners With Ikivo To Provide Turnkey Music Experience Solution | Gracenote’s Mobile Music Platform Combines with Ikivo’s Enrich Open Standard Media Solutions for Fast and Easy Deployment of Mobile Music Applications
BARCELONA, Spain – 7 February 2008 – Gracenote® and Ikivo today announced they have enter... |
| 14.06.2007 | Gracenote Mobile Music 2.0 Tries To Make Music-Playing Cellphones Not Suck | Music-playing cellphones were supposed to have “arrived” by now, but few companies have actually gotten them right so far. (That could be the wireless providers’ fault, though.) So Gracenote, the company that runs the CDDB database that iTu... |
| 08.06.2007 | Audible Magic’s copyright filtering technology not working | Audible Magic, the Los Gatos company that protects music and other content publishers from piracy by scanning files posted around the Web, is having problems.
NewTeeVee tested the so-called finger-printing technology across multiple sites, ... |
| 24.04.2007 | Yahoo Music To Add Music Lyrics Later Today | Look for music Lyrics to be added for hundreds of thousands of songs to Yahoo music later today, the first time they will appear legally on the Internet. They are being provided through a partnership with Gracenote, which is best known for ... |
| 29.10.2006 | MySpace Moves to Protect Copyright Holders | On Monday MySpace will announce a partnership with California startup Gracenote to help detect and block copyrighted music from being posted on MySpace member pages. This will allow them to be more proactive about copyright enforcement, in ... |
| 14.07.2006 | Gracenote Inks Deal to Offer Lyrics | Gracenote, which provides an index of album and song information to music services and software makers, has signed an agreement with numerous record companies that gives it the license to distribute lyrics for over 1 million songs in North ... |
| 26.06.2006 | What’s the Name of That Song? | I’ve recently been ripping some fairly obscure—and some not so obscure—CDs from my collection onto my PC, using both iTunes and the recent beta of Windows Media Player 11. Along the way, I’ve uncovered annoying anomalies in both apps in the... |
| 09.12.2005 | Nuggets | The Rolling Stones are the greatest rock and roll band for three reasons;
1 – The Glimmer Twins – Mick and Keith – the second best songwriting duo in rock music (after John and Paul).
2 – The Rythm Section – Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman – n... |
| - | Blue Chip Venture Co. in Indianapolis … That’s Allos, to you | When is Blue Chip Venture Co. not Blue Chip? When it’s Allos Ventures.
Three principals from Blue Chip, the well-established early stage investing company in Cincinnati, opened for business as Allos Ventures in the Indianapolis area of Indi... |
