Entertainment:
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‘Interstellar’ was the longest IMAX presentation ever, and
the film reel was the biggest IMAX theatres have seen
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YouTube is bringing back its annual Music Awards for a
second festival, with a new format that is designed to better emphasize the
role of fans and creators on the service
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Hooked Digital Media, a studio based in Santa Monica,
California, wants to create films specifically for watching on mobile devices
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The Xbox One now has HBO Go
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Pluto TV has raised $13MM for its free linear TV streaming
service
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Billboard and partner Nielsen SoundScan will soon start
counting streaming services like Spotify and Beats Music in its signature
ranking, the Billboard 200
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Stock media provider Videoblocks is launching what it
describes as the first video marketplace where creators keep all of the sales
revenue
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HBO CEO Richard Plepler stated this morning on CNBC that the
HBO Go rollout will not upset the pay TV ecosystem
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Warner Bros has set the ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ scribe
Peter Straughan to adapt The Goldfinch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Donna Tartt
novel that RatPac Entertainment and Warner Bros acquired last summer
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Paul Greengrass is looking to bring George Orwell's classic
dystopian novel 1984 back to the big screen
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Conan will air an hour-long special on TBS on Dec. 18 at 10
p.m. EST/PST
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http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/tbs-sets-conan-obrien-primetime-clip-special-conan-to-go-1201360666/
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SNL has revealed its December hosts
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SiriusXM Radio plans to be the dominant product in the
connected car of the future, and CEO Jim Meyer expects that by the end of the
decade about 70 percent of new automobiles in the U.S. will come with an
embedded modem
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Sony is pulling the plug on its Steve Job movie
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Netflix has been inviting media and entertainment execs to
an Internet TV Summit next month
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Virtual reality company Jaunt is releasing a video it
produced of Paul McCartney performing in August at San Francisco’s Candlestick
Park
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Netflix has beefed up its programming for France, Germany
and Benelux in a deal with ITV Studios Global Entertainment
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The over-the-top pay-TV market is set to enjoy huge success,
growing from $5.8B in 2014, and might reach over $10B in 2018 says research
firm Infonetics
Tech:
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Apple will be rolling its Beats Music streaming service into
its general iTunes music offerings, and shipping it included across its range
of mobile devices
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Please see below for an article on how Chinese companies are
disrupting the mobile tech markets
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Firefox will use Yahoo as its default search engine in the
United States on mobile and desktop
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BitTorrent will move its file-synchronizing product, Sync,
out of beta as Sync 2.0, introducing a new “Pro” tier system
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Microsoft updated its Office Mobile app for Android phones
with Dropbox support and OneDrive sharing links, and users can download the new
version now directly from Google Play
Deals:
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RelativeWave, creators of an $80
“interaction design and prototyping” Mac app called Form, has been acquired by
Google, and as a result, Form is now free
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Please see below for today’s top
tech funding stories
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Cerritos-based Calnetix
Technologies has acquired VYCON, the developer off flywheel-based energy
storage systems
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Tech Mahindra, the information
technology arm of the Mahindra Group, will acquire US-based network solutions
company Lightbridge Communications Corporation for $240MM
Business:
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Silicon Valley-based payment technology provider Yapstone
has big hiring plans in Los Angeles, with plans to double the size of the
company's office from 35 to 70 people in the next year
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Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project has been selected by
Apple, to help power Apple's iAd mobile advertising product
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Goldman Sachs has fired a junior employee and a supervisor
over the leaking of confidential information from the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York
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Alibaba will sell its first-ever bond on Thursday, a jumbo
trade expected to be around $8 billion in size that comes just two months after
the company's record IPO
Exec Moves:
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Uber announced that it has brought
on data privacy expert Harriet Pearson and her team at Hogan Lovells to help it
conduct an in-depth review of the company’s existing policies
o http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/19/senator-al-franken-asks-ubers-ceo-tough-questions-on-user-privacy/
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YouTube has hired hires Netflix VP
of Content Acquisition Kelly Merryman, who takes on the VP of Content
Partnerships role at YouTube; and Eyal Manor, who was most recently in charge
of Display Infrastructure and Mobile at YouTube Engineering, and who
spearheaded the development of Google’s Ad Exchange
Retail:
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Find&Save has rolled out called Cash Dash, which lets
retailers push users promotions the minute they walk into a competitor’s store
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eBay has launched a new, local buying and selling app called
Close 5 this week in San Diego, aimed at helping users buy and sell products to
other local users
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Wal-Mart says it is no longer matching prices from
marketplace vendors or third-party sellers and will limit the list of retailers
it matches to 30, including Amazon and Best Buy
Startups:
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Flywheel is a new taxi-hailing app
that works with existing taxi companies, and it has long promised to avoid the
mudslinging and the sabotage that has characterized Uber
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French startup Vyte.in will let
you schedule meetings in a few clicks right in your browser in email chains
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Endgame, which provides clarity to
digital domain and supports data analysis driven by ease of use, scalability,
speed, and effectiveness, has raised $30MM in its Series C
Government:
Other:
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Mike Nichols, the director of
‘The Graduate’, has passed away
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