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UPDATED: The Consumer Technology Association announced late today that its CES trade show next week in Las Vegas will end one day early. The move comes amid record-setting Covid counts in many states across America. “The step was taken as an additional safety measure to the current health protocols that have been put…

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg will deliver the opening keynote at January’s CES, but not in its usual cavernous Las Vegas setting. The event, slated for January 11-14, has gone all-digital due to concerns about the coronavirus. In non-pandemic times, the lack of social distance is a trademark of the massive confab, which…

The Consumer Technology Association has become the latest event presenter to shift online amid ongoing concerns about COVID-19, with January’s sprawling CES event now slated to be entirely digital. Held annually at the Las Vegas Convention Center and spilling into many of the city’s nearby hotels over several days…

Mark Penn, a former strategic adviser to President Bill Clinton, and then Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential run, derided the marketing messages of the field of 2020 Democratic candidates as too “fuzzy-wuzzy.” Appearing on a panel on politics and media at CES in Las Vegas, Penn explained that in his experience…

When HBO released the first teaser for the forthcoming season of Westworld it featured a new company called Incite. It left many people scratching their heads. Then again, isn’t that what Westworld is really good at? HBO decided to pull back the curtain a little more at CES with a dinner/activation to elaborate on…

During the NBCUniversal keynote at CES, Today‘s Natalie Morales was joined on the stage at the Park MGM Theater by Linda Yaccarino, Chairman of Advertising and Partnerships at NBCUniversal as well as This Is Us star Mandy Moore, America’s Got Talent host and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews, Pitch Perfect actress…

Warner Bros, which nearly 20 years ago released A.I. Artificial Intelligence, is bringing futuristic tech tools into its international operations, enlisting a customized AI platform recently introduced by L.A. tech firm Cinelytic. The companies announced an agreement Wednesday during CES in Las Vegas, where…

Twitter has become more than a social media platform. It has become a means of communication and discourse that brings people together — and, most recently, it divides people. During a panel at CES, Variety‘s Andrew Wallenstein moderated a conversation with Matt Derella, Global VP Customers Twitter, and did not waste…

Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman took the stage Wednesday morning at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas at the Park MGM theater to give a look at the much-buzzed-about mobile streaming short-form platform. This was the first time that Quibi has shown their innovative platform to an…

The mobile short-form streaming platform Quibi has been the talk of the town since it was announced that founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman were launching it. The streaming platform is set to launch in April, has raised $1 billion in funding and been backed by major Hollywood studios including the Walt…

In a panel appearance Tuesday at CES in Las Vegas, a pair of top WarnerMedia execs offered a few new insights into HBO Max, the company’s subscription streaming offering set to debut in May. Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Legg and EVP and GM of Direct-to-Consumer Andy Forssell painted a somewhat more detailed picture…

Ad-supported streaming company Tubi has reached a distribution deal with Vidaa International, a subsidiary of Hisense, the No. 3 maker of televisions in the world. When the deal starts this spring, Tubi’s library of 20,000-plus movie and TV titles will be seen on Hisense's new Vidaa platform in the U.S., Canada…