9.8.14

Entertainment:

·         TheTake is an app that allows users to purchase retail items they saw in movies – raised $2MM from Demarest Films and the former NBC Chairman

o   http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/08/thetake-just-raised-2m-so-you-can-buy-that-thing-you-saw-in-that-movie/

·         Raycom-DirecTV come to an agreement, and DirecTV restored 43 stations for Raycom

o   http://deadline.com/2014/09/raycome-directv-agreement-service-830775/

·         In recent memoir, Ted Hope relives his days at Good Machine with James Schamus and David Linde

o   http://deadline.com/2014/09/ted-hope-hope-for-film-james-schamus-830585/

·         ICM is still fighting to get the intern class action lawsuit dismissed

o   http://deadline.com/2014/09/icm-wants-lawsuit-tossed-interns-class-action-828496/

·         Lionsgate UK to distribute Summit titles

o   http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lionsgate-uk-distribute-summit-titles-730998

·         Please see below for a list of the Streamy Award winners

o   http://www.thewrap.com/streamy-awards-big-winners-include-video-game-high-school-lgbt-vlogger-tyler-oakley/

·         Relativity Media to launch specialty division (R-squared) to identify prestige titles prior to award season

o   http://www.thewrap.com/relativity-launching-specialty-division-to-be-run-by-robbie-brenner/

·         Disney and Deadmau5 are in a legal battle over copyright infringement of similarities to his mouse head and Mickey, and Disney using Deadmau5’s music in a trailer

o   http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6244010/disney-responds-to-deadmau5s-cease-and-desist-amid-legal-battle

o   http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/6243716/deadmau5-fires-back-at-disneys-trademark-opposition

Tech:

·         Twitter is set to unveil its ‘Buy’ button today to transform tweets into transactional services

o   http://www.wired.com/2014/09/twitter-roles-out-buy-button-transforms-tweets-into-retail-engines/

o   http://deadline.com/2014/09/will-twitter-users-want-to-buy-products-directly-from-a-tweet-831100/

·         Facebook hits 100 million users in Africa, half of its internet-connected population – 9% of the continent’s total population

o   http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/08/facebook-africa/

·         Reddit is reported to be raising $50MM at a $500MM valuation

o   http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/08/reddit-reportedly-raising-50m-at-a-500m-valuation/

o   http://recode.net/2014/09/07/reddit-raising-a-big-round-and-some-y-combinator-players-are-in-the-mix/

·         Facebook serves roughly 1 billion views a day on average

o   http://mashable.com/2014/09/08/facebook-billion-videos/

·         Bill Gross of Idealab, to launch Idea Market to match startup founders with capital and a community

o   http://recode.net/2014/09/08/with-ideamarket-bill-gross-will-fund-you-to-bring-his-ideas-to-life/

Deals:

·         Flipboard acqui-hired visual story-telling startup Ultravisual to boost content curation features on its platform

o   http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/08/flipboard-acqui-hires-ultravisual/

·         Salesforce.com is launching a $100MM Salesforce1 Fund

o   http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/08/salesforce-com-launches-100-million-salesforce1-fund/

·         Yahoo! acquired and shut down Luminate, an interactive image platform

o   http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/05/yahoo-acquires-shuts-down-luminate-an-interactive-image-platform/

·         Peak Ventures launches a $23MM venture fund to back seed-stage startups in Utah and nearby states

o   http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/08/peak-ventures-launches-23-million-venture-capital-fund-for-tech-startups/

Business:

·         Vodafone to develop mobile payment system with Visa

o   http://seekingalpha.com/article/2477595-wall-street-breakfast-electrolux-to-acquire-ge-appliance-business-for-3_3b

·         Amazon is in talks to sells its Fire phone exclusively through Telefonica’s O2 in the UK

o   http://seekingalpha.com/article/2477595-wall-street-breakfast-electrolux-to-acquire-ge-appliance-business-for-3_3b

·         Carlyle raises $3.9B to start the second-largest private equity fund in Asia

o   http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/08/carlyle-group-asia-fundraising-idINKBN0H306S20140908

·         Amazon sells its Fire phone for 99 cents with a two year contract

o   http://recode.net/2014/09/08/fire-sale-for-amazons-fire-phone-now-just-99-cents/

Exec Moves:

·         Universal to name ex-Disney SVP, Vince Klaseus, to President of Universal Brand Development

o   http://deadline.com/2014/09/universal-pictures-branding-executive-hire-vince-klaseus-disney-830117/

Retail:

Startups:

·         Adjust, app analytics startup, raises $7.6MM in its Series C

o http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/08/adjust-series-c/

Government:

·         US estimates it will take 3 years to take down ISIS

o http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/09/08/u-s-isis-campaign-could-take-3-years.html

·         Please see below for a map of what countries prefer US to China

o http://theweek.com/article/index/267704/this-map-shows-which-countries-prefer-china-over-the-united-states

Other:

·         Bruce Morton dead at 83

o   http://deadline.com/2014/09/bruce-morton-dead-cbs-news-cnn-watergate-vietnam-830021/

·         NPH marries David Burtka

o   http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/neil-patrick-harris-marries-david-730997