Apple has reportedly hired about 16 employees from Omnifone, and purchased select technology from the defunct streaming music service. “To be clear, Omnifone is not a full acquisition, and it does not merit Apple’s standard confirmation,” TechCrunch reports. “It seems like a logical conclusion that Apple would make the hires and buy the tech from a music startup to work on Apple Music-related services.”

A new feature lets viewers search through Vevo's music videos and create — and share — five-second GIFs. It's only for use on Vevo's desktop site, but apps are coming soon.

David O. Russell’s TV series starring Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore has landed at Amazon, sources tell Variety. Earlier, it was reported, FX was also interested.  What's the series about?  Don't know.

Live video streamers in China be monitored starting Dec. 1, when new rules go into effect that help the Chinese government block content that it believes threatens national security or social order. Recently, live streaming exploded in popularity thanks to apps and platforms like Huajiao and Inke, which let anyone find an audience for pretty much anything they want to stream.

 Facebook this week will start delivering video ads on apps that run on set-top boxes like Apple TV and Roku through the company’s Audience Network ad network. It's teaming with A+E and Tubi TV. This is only a test. But it's a start. 

PBS's "Odd Squad" show for kids, is premiering a YouTube version. "OddTube" will be 20-episode long experiment streaming every week starting Nov. 10 and and ending March 23,2017. They'll be just one to three minutes long.

The NFL is expanding its partnership with Google with a new VR series for YouTube and Daydream. “Produced by NFL Films, the 9-part show will offer ‘a 360-degree perspective of life’ from the point of view of players, coaches, executives, cheerleaders and fans,” Engadget reports. “While the first episode is set to debut Thanksgiving Day on the league's YouTube channel, the series won't be available inside the NFL VR app for Google's Daydream platform until ‘later this year.’”

Year-over-year, GoPro’s income cratered by 330% in the third quarter. “In total, the company lost $84 million in the past three months, which is almost twice as much as analysts predicted,” Mashable reports. “It seems like the devices are just not selling as much as they used to,” it notes. “Sales for the quarter totaled $241 million, a 40 percent decline compared to the same time last year -- and again failing to meet expectations.”

In Chicago, usually dead people are only resurrected to vote. But Anheuser-Busch spliced audio from old broadcasts featuring famed/beloved Harry Caray seemingly calling the final moments of the Cubs World Series victory on Wednesday, though Caray passed away in 1998. 

YouTube Red -- Google’s answer to services like Netflix and Hulu -- is reportedly struggling to achieve expected growth rates. As of last summer, the service had just 1.5 million paying subscribers -- with another 1 million users signed up on a fee-free trial basis -- The Verge reports, citing sources. “Those numbers underscore just how difficult it is to convince millions of people to pay for something they’ve had free access to for over a decade,” it notes.