Entertainment:
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CableOne will become an independently traded public company
next year following the separation from Graham Holdings Co - known as the
Washington Post Co until last year when Amazon's Jeff Bezos bought the namesake
newspaper
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MGM execs say that they are enthusiastic about their recent
$343.8MM investment for a 55% stake in the United Artists Media Group joint
venture with Mark Burnett, Roma Downey and Hearst Productions
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Please see below for an hour long roundtable discussion with
Fox's Jim Gianopulos, Paramount's Brad Grey, Disney Studios' Alan Horn,
Universal's Donna Langley, IFC Films' Jonathan Sehring and Warner Bros.' Kevin
Tsujihara
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News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch confirmed that the company
is looking at buying a stake in Australian broadcaster Ten Network Holdings,
through its local pay-TV subsidiary Foxtel
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John Malone's international cable company Liberty Global is
negotiating to acquire a 50% stake in German video-on-demand service Maxdome
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A group of 17 service providers, content companies and tech
vendors has formed the Streaming Video Alliance, aimed at formulating
industry-wide standards and establishing best practices for high-scale Internet
video services
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“Serial” is rapidly growing podcast of a nonfiction story
from the producers of “This American Life”
Tech:
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Please see below for articles on Net Neutrality and how it
relates to Netflix and big ISP broadband speeds
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Say Media, which owns sites like xoJane, ReadWrite, and
Fashionista, will be selling off all of its owned properties so that it can
focus on selling ads for other publishers, and on its content management system
Tempest
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Amazon Web Services announced a new service today called
Lambda, a stateless event-driven compute service for dynamic applications that
doesn’t require provisioning of any compute infrastructure
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Amazon announced its first Docker-centric product: the EC2
Container Service for managing Docker containers on its cloud computing
platform
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PhotoShrinker lets users free up space on your iPhone or
Android smartphone by compressing photos up to 1/10th of their original size,
potentially freeing up gigs of space
·
Please see below for an interesting article on the ingredients
that make up billion dollar gaming companies
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Samsung Electronics is kicking off an effort to make short
form mobile videos the center of a new revenue model
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http://www.socaltech.com/samsung_looks_to_hollywood_for_mobile_revenues_says_report/s-0057843.html
Deals:
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Japanese mobile game-maker Gumi
has announced that it will list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange next month at a
$900MM valuation
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Mandalay Digital Group announced that
it is buying Appia, the largest independent mobile app marketer outside of
Facebook, in a $100MM stock, options and debt deal
Business:
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TubeMogul spiked 16% in after-hours trading yesterday after
reporting better-than-expected revenue, profit and guidance
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Bill Gross allegedly received a $290MM bonus at the end of
2013
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Virgin America’s stock price was up more than 27%, to
$29.36, giving the company a market valuation of about $1.3B
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Twitter’s debt was rated as junk by Standard & Poor’s
Ratings Services, a sobering grade that comes a day after executives of the
social media service tried to reassure skeptics on Wall Street of its long-term
growth plan
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Microsoft’s market cap passed that of Exxon Mobil XOM, making
Microsoft the second largest U.S. company by market capitalization, second only
to Apple
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-tops-exxon-mobil-in-race-for-no2-behind-apple-2014-11-13
Exec Moves:
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Reddit CEO Yishan Wong has
resigned, COO Ellen Pao has become interim CEO and co-founder Alexis Ohanian
has returned to the company he founded in 2005 to fill the full-time executive
chairman role
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Media financier Ingenious
Investments CEO James Clayton has left the company to join Simon Fuller's
management and production company XIX Entertainment as president
o http://deadline.com/2014/11/ingenious-loses-three-execs-as-financier-reshuffles-its-deck-1201284276/
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Beau Bryant, an agent with WME's
digital unit, is near a deal to become SVP Talent and Programming at Fullscreen
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George Cheeks has just been named
head of late-night television at NBC
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Upfront Ventures said that Kara
Nortman had joined the firm as a partner
Retail:
Startups:
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LaForge Optical, a Google Glass
competitor, raised $1.1MM in seed funding to further develop its technology and
future product lines
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Craftsy, the premier destination
for learning, inspiration, and supplies for passionate enthusiast makers, has
raised $50MM in its Series D
Government:
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France’s economy grew for the first time this year during
the third quarter and Germany narrowly avoided sliding back into recession
Other:
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The mansion which served as
the fictional headquarters of the Corleone family in the 1972 film The
Godfather has been listed for sale
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Melbourne-based architect Damian Rogers has proposed a
floating wave pool for surfers in Victoria Harbor
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