Entertainment:
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21st Century Fox met with Starz yesterday to
possibly acquire the company
·
Millennium Entertainment has secured a $40MM revolving credit
facility
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Penguin Random House has signed a first-look deal with Universal
·
Comcast accuses Netflix, Discovery Communications, Dish
Networks, and others of ‘extortion’ over the proposed Time Warner Cable deal
·
Keek, a mobile video social network, will get content from
Relativity in a new deal that targets young audiences
Tech:
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Amazon is increasing its staff by 27% in its internal
hardware lab to compete against Google and Apple
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Amazon has expanded its Twitter integration, it now allows
users to add items to their wish list by tweeting
·
Qzzr has launched out of stealth mode with ESPN, Mashable,
Reddit, and Yahoo! partnerships, and $2MM in seed funding
·
Eventbrite has launched Neon, an all-in-one app for event
organizers
·
Kiip, a mobile rewards company, has launched a new video ad
service called Kiip Rewarded Video
·
LiveRail will extend its platform to mobile display ads as
part of Facebook
·
Blackberry has announced a square-screen phone called the
Passport
Deals:
·
PRSS, a digital magazine platform,
was acquired by Apple
·
Upsight has sold its ad network,
PlayHaven, to digital marketer, Science Inc.
·
Rocket Internet is expected to
price its stock between $35.50-42.50 for its upcoming IPO, valuing the company
at $7.3B
·
Starbucks will buy the rest of its
Japanese operations for roughly $913.5MM
Business:
·
The price of Bitcoins increased after PayPal began accepting
the crypto-currency this week
·
Cinedigm has sold its Hollywood Software division
·
The SEC is investigating Pimco ETF for pricing irregularities
Exec Moves:
·
Google X Founder, Sebastian Thrun,
has left Google as a VP and a Fellow
·
Former Universal Chairman, Adam
Fogelson, has been hired as the Chairman of STX Entertainment
Retail:
Startups:
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Inspirato, dubbed the Airbnb for
rich people, recently landed $20MM to grow its portfolio of locations
·
Udacity, provider of online
programming and data science classes to large tech companies, has raised $35MM
in its Series C
·
Qualtrics, a software-as-a-service
company and provider of the world’s leading insight platform, has raised $150MM
in its Series B from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, and Insight Venture Partners
Government:
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India successfully sent a spacecraft to Mars’ orbit, beating
out China
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After 9 years and $67B, the F-22Raptor Fight jet saw ‘combat’
for its time in Syria on Monday
Other:
·
The ‘David Bowie Is’ exhibit has opened at Chicago’s Museum
of Contemporary Art
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