NATPE today announced that more than 250 companies from 50 countries are confirmed to attend the inaugural NATPE Budapest content market.

VIZ Media has promoted Alvin Lu to Executive Vice President of Publishing.

LAIKA has optioned “Goblins,” from award-winning children’s writer Philip Reeve, and has signed Mark Gustafson to direct the 3D stop-motion animated film.

Visual effects software developer The Foundry announced a new Beta version of HIERO, which allows users to download and trial the software on the Windows operating system.

Academy Award winner Rob Legato and Fusion-io Chief Scientist Steve Wozniak discuss technology and creativity at the Post Production World Conference keynote at NAB 2012. Steve Forde of Adobe and Vincent Brisebois of Fusion-io kick off the talk by revealing that Adobe Creative Suite 6 is the first software application to be optimized for the Fusion ioFX.

HP announced that the HP Z1 Workstation is now available worldwide for a starting price of $1,899.

RTL Group announced the appointment of Cécile Frot-Coutaz as the new CEO of FremantleMedia, effective July 1, 2012. Current CEO Tony Cohen will step down to focus on his non-executive work.

The Television Division at Gravity was responsible for creating the branded design for the newly launched Virgin Produced In-Flight TV Channel.

Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg wowed fans at this weekend's Coachella Valley Music Festival when they were joined onstage by holographic projection of 2Pac Shakur.

The Productive has opened its doors to industrious animators, digital artists, writers and publishing professionals.

Cinedeck premiered a significant software upgrade to its Cinedeck RX record monitoring and playback system, along with brand new configurations of Cinedeck RX for broadcast and cinema applications at NAB 2012.

Rushes announced that Jonny Hicks has joined the team as Senior VFX Artist/Supervisor.

Cinedeck announced significant enhancements to its award-winning Cinedeck EX portable, multi-format, recording, monitoring and playback system with the forthcoming release of Cinedeck EX v3.5.

Autodesk introduces Autodesk Smoke 2013 video editing software, a completely redesigned and repackaged version of the all-in-one video editing and visual effects tool for the Mac.

AJA Video, Tiffen, Vizrt and Singular Software announce support for the forthcoming Creative Suite 6 Production Premium from Adobe.

eyeon Software announced a significant commitment to supporting NVIDIA CUDA technology.

At NAB 2012, Facilis Technology will exhibit its latest developments in shared storage solutions for post-production and content creation.

Red Giant celebrates its 10 Year Anniversary at NAB 2012 in Las Vegas next week with the debut of five new product releases, including the preview of a new mobile, connected media portfolio app designed for Apple’s new iPad.

Cookie Jar Entertainment completed multi-territory sales bringing 26 more half-hour episodes of comedy series "Johnny Test" to Cartoon Network channels around the world and Teletoon in Canada.

Richard Loomis has been promoted to the newly created position of Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Disney Channels Worldwide, it was announced today by Gary Marsh, President and Chief Creative Officer, Disney Channels Worldwide, to whom Loomis reports.