Entertainment:
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Google is announcing family-friendly games designed for its
Chromecast
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Mark Cuban has backed a social video startup called Ocho to
create a social network around 8 second videos
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Machinima said Monday that it has rolled out a new brand
identity and tagline, as part of an effort to appeal to the "passion and
aspiration" of its audience
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Seinfeld thanked Zuckerberg for record traffic during the
season five premiere of his web show “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”
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Amazon Studios today announced six drama and comedy pilots
that will be made available for viewing as part of the company's first pilot
season of 2015
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The WGA West joined other net neutrality supporters today in
applauding President Obama for urging the FCC to reclassify the Internet as a
phone-like communications service
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Independent music marketing, talent management, and music
publishing company Primary Wave has acquired Evolution Management
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Newly crowned CMA Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan leads
the upcoming American Country Countdown Awards with seven nominations
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Earlier this year Vimeo announced it would spend $10MM into
supporting original content, and most of that has been spent licensing and
marketing the films sold on the company’s Vimeo On Demand platform, but now
Vimeo has announced it will fund a show about a weed dealer called ‘High
Maintenance’
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CBS has announced that Taylor Swift will perform at the
Thanksgiving Day parade in NYC
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HBO and Warner Bros. TV are teaming to produce a series
based on Isaac Asimov's “Foundation” trilogy that will be written and produced
by “Interstellar” writer Jonathan Nolan
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Please see below for an interesting article on ‘music
cruises’
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Sony Pictures Television Latin American channel Canal Sony
has seen audience figures rocket in Mexico following new programming introduced
in August
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Tech:
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With the latest version of GitHub Enterprise, large
organizations can now take the service’s virtual machines and stand up a highly
scalable version of GitHub‘s services on Amazon’s cloud computing platform
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Facebook now has over 1 billion messaging users, after today
announcing that it has passed 500 million monthly active users for Messenger
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Streaming music beast Spotify now has 50 million listeners
and 12.5 million paying subscribers
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Microsoft today announced it will be replacing its
enterprise-focused instant messaging app Lync with a new Skype for Business tool
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Google, Pandora, and Spotify are all working on using a type
of artificial intelligence called “deep learning” to make a better music
playlist for users
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has written a blog post defending the
amount of money the streaming service pays artists, saying Spotify has paid
more than $2B to labels and other entities that then distribute a cut to the
artists. He also states that Taylor Swift would have made $6MM this year if she
kept her albums on the site
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Alibaba pulled in a record-breaking $9.3B in sales on
Singles' Day, the biggest online shopping day in the world, the company said
Tuesday
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Google has taken a 60-year lease on a NASA airfield next to
its Silicon Valley headquarters, where it plans to renovate three large hangars
and use them for projects involving aviation, space exploration and robotics
Deals:
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Korea-based startup Yello Mobile
has raised $100MM from Formation 8 at a $1B valuation
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New Relic, a company that provides
app-monitoring on a SaaS-basis, filed to go public today
Business:
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Deutsche Telekom has launched a new $620MM fund for German
startups and PE deals
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Samsung is announcing a massive partnership with the
enterprise software giant SAP to battle Apple’s collaboration with IBM in the
enterprise
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Tribune Media Company reported earnings of $0.38 a share in
the third quarter of 2014 on revenue of $474.9MM on Tuesday
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Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business has claimed the
No. 1 spot in Bloomberg Businessweek‘s 14th biennial ranking of full-time MBA
programs
Exec Moves:
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Amazon Studios standout Sarah
Babineau has been poached by Comedy Central
Retail:
Startups:
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Andrei Cherny’s startup, Aspiration,
is offering an online investing platform that lets anyone invest as little as
$500 in its securities portfolio, and it lets them pay whatever they like for
the privilege
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Revel Systems, which provides an
iPad point of sale solution for restaurant and retail establishments, has
raised $100MM in its Series C from Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe
Government:
Other:
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