Entertainment:
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BSkyB has invested $7MM into Whistle Sports, a YouTube MCN
that focuses on sports videos for young people
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YouTube is bringing its live broadcasting capabilities to
the world of third-party app developers with the launch of the new open source
project called “YouTube WatchMe for Android”
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Amazon buys comedy service Rooftop Media to expand digital
content
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EuropaCorp has been fined in France for financial reporting
errors
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Fox Searchlight has acquired ‘Meet The Man Who Sold His Fate
To Investors At $1 A Share’, a Wired magazine article by Joshua Davis that will
be crafted into a starring and directing vehicle for Jason Bateman
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Redbox and Lionsgate have signed a multi-year agreement to
bring the distributor’s films to Redbox, which accounts for about 50.6% of
physical home-video rental
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The Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks is
proposing a 25% increase in film fees to handle the expected flood of new
filming requests once the state’s $330MM incentives program kicks in next year
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Haim Saban has joined forces with filmmaker Chris Columbus,
producer Michael Barnathan and kids entertainment specialist Jeremy Zag to
launch a new animation studio
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Univision, led by CEO Randy Falco, said quarterly revenue
increased 5.2% to $728.9MM driven by gains in TV and digital and he also
mentioned the possibility of a streaming service
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Marvel has announced potential new franchises, which might
include 'Black Panther,' 'Captain Marvel' and 'Inhumans'
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MTV has acquired the rights to ‘Scream’ to make it a TV show
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New York will get its first country music festival
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler just proposed a rule change that
would require cable and broadcast networks to sell their programming to any
company that wants to be a TV provider, not just cable or satellite companies,
which would include Apple TV
Tech:
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Seen.co has secured $1.25MM from Horizon Ventures and KEC to
capture live social events
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Project Ara is Google’s boxy modular cell phone, and the
final version of its Spiral 1 prototype is on its way
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The former Head of Google Wallet has launched a new payment
terminal startup called Poynt
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Tumblr’s auto-playing video ads will begin rolling out to
users’ dashboards today, in a pilot program that includes participation from big-name
brands such as CW, Lexus, Universal, JCPenney, Hulu and others
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Reddit has launched its own crowdfunding platform,
Redditmade
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Shares of Facebook may be down 6% following a disappointing
outlook, but analysts are shrugging it off, siding with Mark Zuckerberg that
higher spending will drive the company’s long-term growth story
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Hearst, News Corp., and MacMillan Publishing have signed on
to Dropbox
Deals:
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Matomy Media acquired MobFox, an
Austrian mobile ad platform, for $17.6MM
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TPG Capital is said to have hired
the investment bank Lazard to sell the Australian gas and electricity retailer
Alinta Energy in a deal worth about $3.54B
Business:
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Twitter has partnered with IBM to let enterprises leverage
social data
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Mobile Internet investment hits record $19.2B — up 232% in
last 12 months
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SpaceX has been thrust into a critical role with NASA, after
a catastrophic launch failure and explosion by Orbital Sciences
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JPMorgan will not be building a new $6.5B HQ in NYC anymore
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Fiat Chrysler to spin off Ferrari
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Volkswagen is planning to launch more than 20 pure electric
or plug-in hybrid models in China over the next few years
Exec Moves:
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High Noon Entertainment has tapped
former Fox TV Studios exec Jill Schwartz to manage its development team and
slate
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Chris Phillips to be Head of
Product at Pandora
Retail:
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Major retailers aren’t taking up ApplePay because they are a
part of the Merchant Customer Exchange, which is making its own payments app –
CurrentC
Startups:
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Cloth is a new fashion-centric
social network, and it looks like Instagram
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Dutch startup Blendle, which is
applying a Netflix style marketplace model to journalism, allowing web users of
its website to buy individual articles from a range of publishers and
publications, has pulled in a $3.8MM Series A
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Social content aggregation and
publishing platform Stackla announced today that it has raised $2MM in new
funding
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Strava, a GPS tracking app for
cyclers and runners, just raised $18.5MM to expand its services to try to
become the Facebook for athletes
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Los Angeles-based weeSPIN
announced that it has raised a seed investment round for its music-focused,
social networking app
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Abacus, a simple, fast way for
businesses to reimburse their employees for company expenses, has raised $3.5MM
in seed from a slew of high profile investors
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Irvine based Seedling, which gives
parents and caregivers kid-safe idea development kits with different themes,
has raised $7MM in venture capital from Upfront Ventures and Greycroft Partners
Government:
Other:
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Fireball whiskey has been
recalled in Europe for containing higher-than-accepted levels of a chemical
found in antifreeze
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Australia's koalas have chlamydia,
now there’s hope for a vaccine
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