Report: Recommendations go mainstream as TiVo splurges on DigitalSmiths

The news that TiVo has forked out $135 million on the Digitalsmiths content discovery engine is interesting from a number of perspectives. Of course it validates the importance of intelligent search and recommendations to the pay-TV market, but it also signals something else – a step change in the way industry insiders view this technology. Recommendations are mainstream.
http://www.iptv-news.com/2014/02/report-recom...talsmiths/

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