Entertainment:
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AirMedia aims to be the syndication platform for premium
video, and has recently raised $2MM in funding
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Movie Nights is a service that lets two parties enter their
movie preferences and it presents a selection of films that coincide with your
interests
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Pitbull to host the American Music Awards
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Lionsgate and Tribeca to form a SVOD company
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Vice News to expand operations in France today, with
expansion to Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil and Mexico planned
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Lionsgate pacted with Google for a weeklong video series in
which top YouTube creators including iJustine and Veritasium imagine the
dystopian world of “The Hunger Games.”
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Pandora beta tests its sponsored listening ad format on Fox programming
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Spotify has announced a family pricing plan
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FremantleMedia Latin America has announced a new strategic
partnership with media and entertainment company 360Powwow to develop original
Spanish-language content
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Please see below for a breakdown of CBS’s financials and why
the stock is down 23% since its all-time high in March
Tech:
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Chicago is installing nodes on light poles around the city
to gather ambient data to help government officials and residents understand
how they can make the city a happier, healthier, and smarter place to live
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Snapchat began rolling out ads over the weekend
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Please see below for the 14 companies that are participating
in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield
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Brazilian internet conglomerate Movile is pushing deeper
into consumer investments in Latin America through a $2MM investment in mobile
movie ticketing company, CinePapaya
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Crunchbase has launched a ‘New Events’ section
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Google is integrating Songza’s technology into its Google
Play Music service
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The iPhone 6 is allegedly outselling the 6 Plus by a 6-to-1
margin
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Marvell, a chip manufacturer, is expanding into the market
for network search engine chips with a product that can juggle 8 million
simultaneous streams that will enable next-generation mobile networks and
Internet-of-things processing
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Apple Pay to rollout today, but ubiquitous use isn’t
expected
Deals:
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Facebook acquired CinemaWell.com,
a social network of cinemas which connects movie authors with the audience, for
$95MM
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Tim Armstrong says AOL and Yahoo!
will not merge
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A consortium of investors from
Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi is said to be planning to offer about $2.2B to buy
Reebok from Adidas
Business:
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IBM is paying Globalfoundries
$1.5B as part of a deal to offload IBM’s chip-making unit
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Microsoft is readying the launch of a smartwatch, which will
hit stores before the holiday season
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IBM’s stock plunged the most in more than four years after
abandoning an earnings forecast for 2015, as the company struggles to transform
fast enough to handle the shift to cloud computing
Exec Moves:
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Marc Andreessen steps down from
eBay’s board ahead of the PayPal spinoff
Retail:
Startups:
Government:
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Chinese government accused of staging a ‘malicious attack’
on iCloud
Other:
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