Entertainment:
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Rovi to acquire Fan TV to bring its streaming set top box to
more consumers via the cloud
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Trent Reznor is working with Apple on a special project to
focus on the world of music delivery
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RealNetworks’ streaming video service RealPlayer Cloud is
rolling out new applications for those with a Mac or Microsoft’s Xbox One game
console
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Taylor Swift has pulled all of her albums off of Spotify
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Sony Pictures Animation is partnering with Fred Seibert to
launch GO! Cartoon, an online incubator of animation talent, on Seibert's Cartoon
Hangover channel on YouTube
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Fox broke a domestic box office record for its
highest-grossing year ever, Fox International has now set a new industry
benchmark for box office earned in a calendar year with a cume so far of
$3.254B
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Major studio and network owners' decision to sell shows to
Netflix might go down as one of the biggest strategic blunders they've ever
made
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Hollywood Media Bridge has just been infused with a $25
million equity investment from Canadian entrepreneur Jonathan Kitzen and his
Kajanga Syndicate
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X-Men character Gambit is getting
his own spinoff movie with Channing Tatum
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SNL ratings up with Chris Rock and
Prince
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Star Wars: Episode VII has wrapped
shooting
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StyleHaul confirms sale to RTL for
$107MM
Tech:
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Please see below for an interesting article on Stuxnet, the
world’s ‘first’ digital weapon
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Starbuck’s mobile payment system is said to have a larger
market share than Apple Pay
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Amazon has joined Facebook and Google in exposing the tech
industry’s gender gap
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Apple Pay has partnered with McDonalds, and PayPal with
Burger King
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Beats Music announced a partnership with Southwest Airlines
to deliver its streaming library to inflight entertainment onboard Southwest
planes that offer Wi-Fi
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Rant Inc., the young media company behind RantSports, has
launched 11 more news verticals
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Tinder is rapidly approaching 50 million active users, who
are spending an average of 90 minutes a day on the service
Deals:
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Global ad giant Publicis is
spending big to position itself as the top agency for brands riding the digital
wave, after it announced a deal that sees it acquire Sapient for $3.7B
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Virgin America to raise up to
$368MM in its initial public offering
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Los Angeles-based digital
advertising technology developer Social Reality has raised $25MM, and acquired
display and mobile ad company Steel Media
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Altice, the European cable and
mobile service provider, offered on Monday to buy the Portuguese assets of the
Brazilian carrier Oi for about $8.8B
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LabCorp has agreed to acquire
Covance for $5.6B in cash and stock, "creating the world's leading healthcare
diagnostics company”
Business:
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo experienced an “in-flight
anomaly” and crashed
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Sohu, the Chinese search, video and games group, saw
revenues climb by 17% to $430 million and net losses came in at $28MM
Exec Moves:
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After hiring former Lyft COO
Travis VanderZanden earlier this month, Uber has now scored Lyft’s former VP of
Operations Stephen Schnell to work on international supply growth
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Netflix lures Larry Tanz, CEO of
Michael Eisner’s digital studio
Retail:
Startups:
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Contextly isn’t just pointing
visitors to relevant articles, but videos and products as well
Government:
·
Please see below for an interesting article on Midterm
Elections
Other:
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Joran van der Sloot was stabbed twice by fellow inmates in a maximum
security prison in Peru
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