Entertainment:
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Paramount Television, in tandem with Anonymous Content, has
signed a two-year, first-look deal with Kyle Killen, creator of ‘Lone Star’
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PalmStar Media Capital and Thunder Road Pictures have made
an overall financing deal that will give Basil Iwanyk's production company more
than $200MM annually
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EuropaCorp, the French mini-major co-founded by Luc Besson
in 2000, signed a five-year $450M credit facility deal
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Redbox has reported losses with its joint venture with
Verizon
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ABC has officially ordered the ‘Shark Tank’ spinoff ‘Beyond
The Tank’, a companion series that will focus on what happens to entrepreneurs
after they have struck deals with the sharks
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Please see below for Zach Galifianakis’ ‘Between Two Ferns’
with Brad Pitt
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Christian Bale to play Steve Jobs in Sony’s upcoming biopic
penned by Aaron Sorkin
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NBCUniversal agrees to a $6.4MM settlement of intern lawsuit
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Sam Smith, 5 Seconds of Summer, and Mary J. Blige to perform
at AMAs
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Microsoft has announced plans to shut down the free version
of its music streaming service ‘Xbox Music Pass’ in December
Tech:
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Ello’s founders and investors have signed a new charter that
prohibits the company from selling user data or ads, and has raised $5.5MM
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Mark Zuckerberg surprises everyone as he answers a Q&A
exclusively in Mandarin
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5by, the video recommendation startup that became
StumbleUpon’s first acquisition, is relaunching to encourage users to seek out
videos for themselves, get a notification about the next viral videos, and chat
with friends about the videos they’re watching in real-time
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Tencent lead a $350MM investment in China’s Koudai Gouwou, a
mobile focused rival of Alibaba
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Telegram, the security-focused messaging app with
Snapchat-like hold to view media, now lets you add friends without necessarily
knowing their phone number
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Vint offers a monthly subscription service for unlimited on
demand fitness training
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Twitter introduced Fabric, a set of APIs aimed at developers
to encourage them to build apps and services on top of its platform
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Amazon’s Rewards Visa Card will support Apple Pay
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The Matchstick is a new streaming dongle powered by
Mozilla’s Firefox OS
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Draftster.com, which operates an online fantasy sports
service, has signed on former NFL player Terrell Owens in an endorsement deal
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One of the first Apple computers has sold at auction for
$905k
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Twitter promises to make signing up for the service easier,
and wants to change by promising to not share as much info as Facebook does
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Please see below for a sneak peek of Yahoo’s new home page
that will be rolled out next month
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Deals:
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Progress Software, which helps
companies build business software, announced it was buying Telerik for $262.5MM
Business:
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the VC firm who is defending
itself against allegations of discrimination and retaliation, won’t have to
disclose documents in the case
·
Caterpillar posted stronger-than-expected results for its Q3
Exec Moves:
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Tesco Chairman Richard Broadbent
is stepping down, as the company scrapped its full-year trading profit outlook
due to last month's accounting error
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Current head of Procter &
Gamble’s $32B North America business, Melanie Healey, is leaving the brand
giant next year
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Colin Callender has brought in
All3Media executive Louise Pedersen as Managing Director of UK operations for
his production company Playground Entertainment
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FremantleMedia has appointed
Samantha Glynne as VP Branded Entertainment in the Digital & Branded
Entertainment Division
Retail:
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Sears continues to downsize as it plans to lay off more
workers and close stores
Startups:
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Zignal Labs, a company that helps
brands and organizations monitor online media to see who’s talking about them
or about topics relevant to them, raised $10.7MM in new funding
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Boostable raised $2.6MM in a seed
round to make advertising easy and effective for sellers on marketplaces
Government:
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