Entertainment:
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Google continues to build out its lineup of content partners
for the Chromecast streaming media device with new partners including Comedy
Central, Sesame Street Go, Nickelodeon, and TuneIn
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Tencent is now HBO’s exclusive online partner in China
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News Corp announced its first investment in India, paying
$30MM for a 25% stake in Elara, the company that runs real estated portal
PropTiger.com
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Aaron Sorkin’s much-anticipated Steve Jobs movie is now a
Universal Pictures project, who bought it for a reported $30MM from Sony
Pictures which ended its two-year development of the title this month
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Operations at Sony Pictures were apparently completely shut
down by a hacker, who hacked into and disabled the company's corporate network
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Bernstein Research has introduced a new weekly tracking
report analyzing ad-supported U.S. TV networks' viewership on a year-over-year
basis, and the first version, released today, shows that for the week of
November 10-16, audiences fell again across the board
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HBO has hired 160 lawyers in anticipation of their new
scientology documentary
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USA Network has announced its flagship drama Suits will
return for the remainder of its fourth season on January 28
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Video creators cheer a potential new buyer as Google/YouTube
bets on viewers paying for shortform content
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HBO is bringing the first fully authorized documentary about
Kurt Cobain to the screen
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Netflix shares dipped as much as 3.5% Tuesday, after Wall
Street firm Stifel downgraded the company's stock based on uncertainty about
the subscription-video leader's U.S. growth trajectory
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Australia’s BigPond music download service to close
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Amazon has made exclusive video a component of Prime Instant
Video streaming service, its answer to Netflix – and now the company is doing
the same with music
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Independent TV production and distribution company Endemol
has entered into an exclusive first-look development and distribution deal with
UK producer Amber Television
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Shanghai Media Group (SMG) is to merge its digital media arm
BesTV, Microsoft's Chinese partner, with its Shanghai Oriental Pearl division
to create a huge new Internet and broadcasting company
Tech:
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A new trend in tech is for successful entrepreneurs to back ‘Startup
Factories’
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Google Glass is still in beta, and the price for the product
is pegged at $1,500
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Google has unveiled its Devices and Activity Dashboard,
which lists what devices are connected to your Google Account, along with when
and where they’ve been accessed
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Vine’s fast-becoming a place that houses funny and
entertaining content from a range of different artists, and now the
Twitter-owned company wants to help you keep with your favorites via push
notifications
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Tumblr is rolling a new mobile-only ad unit called “Tumblr
Sponsored Apps” which will allow app publishers to target the social blogging
service’s largely Millennial and heavily mobile audience with creative posts
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The Wall Street Journal, one of the last major publications
holding out on Flipboard in the U.S., will now allow Flipboard users to view
its news stories there
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Audio accessory startup Muzik is launching its product after
two years of design and gearing up production, making the Muzik smart over-ear
headphones available to consumers today for $299
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A five-part video series by Stuart Brown of XboxAhoy has
created a series of mini-documentaries that take a look at computer graphics
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Flipkart, India’s leading e-commerce site, raised $600MM in
its Series H
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Anthony Noto, Twitter’s CFO, appeared to accidentally
disclose some confidential corporate strategy plans
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Apple is now worth more than $700B after its stock ticked up
in early trading on Tuesday
Deals:
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VigLink just announced that it’s
acquiring LinkSmart
Business:
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SummitView Capital raises $1.7B private equity fund with
Shanghai government for chip investments
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BlackBerry offers up to $550 to trade your iPhone for a
BlackBerry Passport
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Medibank Private fell on its trading debut to below the
price paid by institutional buyers after an initial public offering that raised
about $4.88 billion for Australia’s government
Exec Moves:
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Philip Falcone resigned on Tuesday
as chairman and chief executive of the Harbinger Group
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Russell Schwartz has stepped down
as president of theatrical marketing at Relativity EuropaCorp Distribution
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Ricardo Reyes, the communications
chief for Square, has left the Jack Dorsey company to return to Tesla to work
for Elon Musk
Retail:
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Richard Baker, the chief executive of the Hudson’s Bay
Company, announced that he had taken out a loan against the Saks Fifth Avenue
flagship store that values it at $3.7B
Startups:
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According to the startup ‘Roomer’,
which has just raised $5MM in Series A led by Disruptive, there are 81 million
hotel room cancellations in the United States every year
Government:
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The US economy expanded at its fastest pace (3.9%) in more
than a decade during the spring and summer, according to a revised estimate of
gross domestic product, showing the U.S. sits on a solid foundation despite
increasing global uncertainty
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China is considering a broad ban on smoking, including
tobacco advertising, smoking in public places and cutting smoking scenes in
film and TV
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Please see below for articles on the Michael Brown case in
Ferguson. No charges would be filed against Ferguson police officer Darren
Wilson in the death of black teenager Michael Brown. President Barack Obama
appealed for calm - "There is never an excuse for violence."
o http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120398/darren-wilson-free-obama-should-give-big-ferguson-speech
Other:
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Legendary indie music
distributor Jim Schwartz died in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 8 of complications
from Alzheimer's disease - he was 91
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