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January 03, 2020 11:22

Collective Memories of Golden Years: Highlights from the 1950s to 1960s Taiwan

The Ministry of Culture’s Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank and Digital Value-added Application project aims at digitizing museum collections and local knowledge. It has also established a public licensing

January 03, 2020 11:09

Hualien Elders Assemble Local Memories Into Art

Hualien County Nou-Li InterCommunity Association (花蓮縣牛犁社區交流協會), an organization that has been subsidized by the Ministry of Culture’s Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank project, tell life stories of communit

December 18, 2019 16:44

Adding Executive Firepower, Audible Appoints Tech, Digital Media, and Information Services Leader Bob Carrigan as CEO, Reporting to Founder Don Katz

Audible, Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of digital spoken-word entertainment and information, today announced that Bob Carrigan will join the company on January 2nd as Chief Executive O

December 16, 2019 19:40

Amazon Studios Orders Fourth Season of the Award-Winning Comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

(NASDAQ:AMZN) - Amazon Studios announced today that it has ordered a fourth season of the Emmy and Golden Globe-Award winning comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The third season premiered Friday, Dec.

December 13, 2019 11:39

New Charter Seeks to Build Global Support for Tolerance and Religious Freedom

This week some of the world’s most respected Islamic scholars, joined by experts from governments, civil society groups and other faiths, will launch a new effort to build global peace, based on toler

December 12, 2019 13:54

PTW International Announces Orange Rock Studios, Their Product and Game Development Arm

Pole to Win International, Ltd. (PTW), the industry-leading video games and tech services outsourcer, today announced the launch of its product and game development arm, Orange Rock Studios. Orange Ro

December 05, 2019 13:45

Otis Korea Wins the Good Design Award 2019 for its ‘Gen2 Life Nova’ Design

Otis Elevator Co.’s Korea-based division received the Good Design Award 2019 for its ‘Gen2® Life Nova’ design. Otis has won the award in three previous instances and is a unit of United Technologies C

December 02, 2019 10:42

Image of Tainan Old Watercourse to Participate in Global Photography Contest

The Ministry of Culture (MOC) has announced the winners of the “Loving Monuments” photography contest. The winner is a photograph capturing the aesthetic of the Garden Watercourse Museum in Tainan, Ta

November 15, 2019 17:04

Nahyan bin Mubarak Inaugurates World Tolerance Summit in Dubai

His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Institute for Tolerance, IIT, officially opened on Thursday the sec

October 29, 2019 15:09

2019 Seoul International Buddhism Expo to Be Held from November 14th to 17th Under the Theme of Meditation: Habit of Being Every Moment ‘Pause: Breathe in, Breathe out’

2019 Seoul International Buddhism Expo (BEXPO) will be held at the Seoul Trade Exhibition & Convention (SETEC) from November 14th to 17th. The exhibition consists of three halls. The 1st hall, ‘Joy

October 28, 2019 09:37

WarnerMedia to Take Full Ownership of HBO-Branded Services in Spanish-Speaking Latin America and the Caribbean, Including All HBO, MAX, Cinemax and HBO Go Offerings

WarnerMedia has reached an agreement to buy Ole Communications’ minority stake in HBO Ole Partners, the joint venture between WarnerMedia and Ole Communications. When the transaction closes, WarnerMed

October 07, 2019 17:18

“Japan Media Arts Distributed Museum” Deployed at Takamatsu Airport Based on a “Japanese Garden” Theme

The Agency for Cultural Affairs: Overview of Exhibition at Takamatsu Airport Date and time: Starting Friday, October 4, the first year of Reiwa (2019) - *8:00-20:00 Location: Takamatsu Airport

October 02, 2019 10:44

AEG Facilities and SMG Complete Transaction to Create ASM Global

AEG Facilities, LLC (“AEG Facilities”), the venue management affiliate of Anschutz Entertainment Group, Inc. (“AEG”), and SMG, a portfolio company of Onex (TSX: ONEX) and its affiliated funds, today a

September 20, 2019 17:52

Amazon Studios Announces New Zealand as Location for Its Upcoming Series Based on The Lord of the Rings

Amazon Studios announced today that its series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic fantasy novels The Lord of the Rings will shoot in New Zealand. Pre-production has started, and production on the series

September 20, 2019 15:07

The real and the virtual meet at IBC2019 Awards

The IBC2019 Awards saw recognition for the real - in terms of socially responsible projects and charitable bodies - and the virtual, including holograms over 5G and the cutting edge in delivering augm

September 17, 2019 10:37

Spotify Acquires SoundBetter, the Leading Music and Audio Production Talent Marketplace

Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT), the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, today announced that it has acquired SoundBetter, a leading global audio production and collaboratio

September 11, 2019 11:02

The Japanese Culinary Academy Launches japanese-cuisine.com, a Website with Killer Content and an E-Learning Program to Promote Japanese Cuisine Abroad

The Japanese Culinary Academy, located in Kyoto Prefecture, Yoshihiro Murata, Director, and online at https://culinary-academy.jp/english, has partnered with Blue Magic, Inc., headquartered in Tokyo,

September 06, 2019 15:59

teamLab Planets, a Museum Where You Move Through Water in Toyosu, Tokyo, Is Currently a Space for Autumn. The Carp Swimming on the Water’s Surface Change into Autumn Leaves When They Collide with Visitors.

Art collective teamLab’s “museum where you move through water” in Toyosu, Tokyo, teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM.com (hereafter, teamLab Planets) will change into an autumnal space for a limited time, start

September 06, 2019 11:53

A Boost for Mobile AR Takes the Honours at IBC Conference

The IBC2019 Best Technical Paper award will be presented to Sebastian Schwarz and Mika Pesonen of Nokia Technologies and Jani Nurminen, co-founder of Innogiant. Their paper, Real-time decoding and AR

September 04, 2019 15:54

MovieLabs, Netflix, Britbox, Sony, Facebook and VICE join compelling IBC2019 speaker line-up

IBC2019 is excited to announce a raft of new speakers and additional thought-provoking conference sessions adding to the world-class line-up that has already been announced. With less than a month to

August 30, 2019 09:55

PTW International Announces the Launch of Esports Team- Orange Rock Esports

Pole To Win International, Ltd. (PTW), the industry-leading video games and tech services outsourcer, today announced that it is launching a top-tier Esports team. The team is composed of former membe

August 28, 2019 17:15

UHD Alliance Brings Together Filmmakers, CE Companies and Hollywood Studios For New “Filmmaker Mode”

The UHD Alliance (UHDA) along with leaders in consumer electronics, the Hollywood studios and members of the filmmaking community announced today their collaboration on a new viewing mode for watching

August 27, 2019 17:23

Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Show Presented by Amazon Prime Video to Stream Exclusively on the Worldwide Service Friday, Sept. 20

Amazon Prime Video presents the highly anticipated second annual Savage X Fenty Show, a runway show celebrating the new Fall/Winter 2019 collection from music and fashion icon Rihanna. The extraordina

August 23, 2019 08:00

Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2019 to Open on September 7

The 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (Seoul Biennale) is scheduled to open at the DDP under the theme of “Collective City” in Seoul, South Korea from September 7 (Saturday) to November

August 09, 2019 10:23

teamLab Borderless Becomes the Most Visited Single-Artist Museum in the World.

This summer marks the one-year anniversaries for art collective teamLab’s two museums in Tokyo: MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM: teamLab Borderless (Odaiba, Tokyo; hereafter teamLab Borderless) and t

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