Entertainment:
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MPAA bans Google Glass and other wearable cameras from movie
theaters
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Sony and Alibaba are in co-financing talks, and it is stated
that the movies would be in both Chinese and English, and aimed at global
audiences. Alibaba would handle distribution in China, and Sony elsewhere
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http://variety.com/2014/film/news/alibaba-sony-pictures-in-co-financing-talks-exclusive-1201341626/
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Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch says that the industry needs Hulu to
be “a serious competitor” to Netflix and Amazon
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Dreamworks Animation shares are down over 5% today after
released its mixed Q3 report
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Universal Pictures has slotted Joel and Ethan Coen’s
1950s-set Hollywood film ‘Hail, Caesar!’ for release February 5, 2016
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Fox’s broadcast of the 3-2 win by the San Francisco Giants
over the Kansas City Royals got a surging 15.2/24 rating
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'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay' could top $150MM in its US
debut
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Vice Media and Canada's Rogers Communications, a media and
communications conglomerate, have formed a $100MM joint venture to create a
multimedia production studio
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Sydney-based animation and VFX studio Animal Logic is in
advanced negotiations with Warner Bros. to secure production duties on the next
three Lego movies
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The Foo Fighters’ world tour has added a string of stadium
dates across Australia and New Zealand
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Please see below for an interesting WSJ article on why
Hollywood loves Chris Nolan
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YouNow is a live video site that is gaining traction in the
market
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More than a third of Americans interested in standalone HBO
Tech:
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Tim Cook, Apple CEO, has publicly announced that he is gay
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Please see below for an interesting article on how Facebook
is making a big push to keep content online and make it easily accessible on
their site
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Viber has been blocked in China
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Mixify, the live streaming service connecting big-ticket DJs
to clubs around the world, is seeing its Clubcast service take off with major
DJs signing on to the platform
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YouTube can now play videos at 60 frames per second
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About.me’s new ‘Intro’ app aims to replace the business card
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In Tumblr’s new update, the blogging platform is growing the
size of video and image display by 40 pixels and adding a “quick compose”
button for posts
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Spotify updates its iPad app with a fresh redesign and new
curation features
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Pandora ranked as No. 1 among music apps for most downloads
and total revenue generated in September, according to App Annie’s new Music
App Index report
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Microsoft has launched its first wearable called the
"Microsoft Band"
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Samsung Electronics reports that its net profit nearly
halved during Q3, as its mobile business continued to face heavy competition
from low-cost Chinese smartphone makers
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Facebook loses $24,420 a minute during outages
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Google Play Books is now a lot better for reading nonfiction
titles like textbooks
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Please see below for reviews on the new GoPro cameras
Deals:
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Lenovo has completed its $2.91B
acquisition of Motorola from Google
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Next Games acquires mobile game
studio Helsinki GameWorks
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Abbott paid $250MM plus milestones
for Topera Medical and its cardiac arrhythmia mapping technology
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Greene King has offered to acquire
the Spirit Pub Company for about $1.2B in cash and stock
Business:
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Please see below for today’s top tech funding stories
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Global Eagle Entertainment, the developer of in-flight
wireless and entertainment systems for airlines, has partnered with satellite operator SES, to bring Ku-band
satellite bandwith to the company's system
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http://www.socaltech.com/global_eagle_entertainment_links_with_satellite_operator_ses/s-0057625.html
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Media, finance and automotive brands continue to lead online
video advertising adoption, according to new data from MediaRadar
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Apollo Global Management reported on Thursday that its
third-quarter profit declined sharply, weighed down by a loss in its private
equity business
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Goldman Sachs is at odds with its fellow Alibaba advisers
after it awarded a “neutral” rating to the Chinese ecommerce group’s shares
with a price target well below those of the other banks most closely involved
in the initial public offering last month
Exec Moves:
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Sony will appoint SVP Hiroki
Totoki as the new president of Sony Mobile Communications
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Jeremy Gordon, Twitter’s head of
product engineering, and Adam Kinney, a four-year veteran leading the analytics
group, are leaving the company
Retail:
Startups:
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Minted, a social commerce company
that crowdsources graphic designs and content from a global design community,
raised $38MM in its Series D
Government:
Other:
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At least two people area dead after a plane crashed into a two-story
building at the Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita, Kansas
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