Entertainment:
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Shutterstock has launched Sequence, a video editor designed
for Chrome
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Sam Mendes' London-based Neal Street Productions has been
put up for sale for $63.8MM
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Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller's Caliber Media has phased
out the majority of its management business and closed its Wilshire Boulevard
office to focus on production
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Private-equity group Bison Capital Partners IV bought a
minority stake in Ease Entertainment Services, a LA-based production software
and payroll-services company
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Quentin Tarantino is ‘forcing’ potential foreign rights
buyers to a script reading of “Hateful Eight”
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Peter Chernin is nearing to re-sign with Fox in a production
deal
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Digital Film Cloud Network is launching an online
marketplace aimed at simplifying the trading of global film rights
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DreamWorks Animation's All Hail King Julien, a Madagascar
spin-off focused on the lemur from the popular kids' film, is poised to become
a Netflix original TV series
Tech:
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Google is working on a pill that will help detect cancer
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Michael Crumling has developed a bullet designed
specifically to be fired from 3-D printed guns
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Jawbone has revealed its new multi-sensor wearable health
tracker, the Up3, but its roll out is being overshadowed by the Apple Watch
·
Two of the creators of FarmVille are launching a new app
marketing product called Toro, which helps developers market their apps on
Facebook
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Amazon has launched same-day delivery in Toronto and
Vancouver
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Viddy, once touted as ‘The Instagram for Video”, will shut
down on December 15th – the app was acquired by Fullscreen for $20MM
earlier this year
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LG and Google have struck a 10-year global patent agreement
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Ex-Beats Music CEO has launched “Chosen”, an app that is similar
to ‘American Idol’
Deals:
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Ingo Money, a leading mobile
payments technology provider, announced that it has reached an agreement to
acquire Fuze Network, a leading card disbursement platform
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Business:
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Content marketing is considered a massive a waste of time to
a marketing technologist
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Mobile Internet exits explode 700% to $94B
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Pimco said investors withdrew $27.5B from its flagship Total
Return fund in October, shrinking the size of the world’s largest bond fund to
$171B
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A new funding round could give Xiaomi a valuation of as much
as $50B, but the Chinese company lacks the market dominance and innovation that
would justify such a price
·
Alibaba reported a jump in profit in its first earnings
announcement since its IPO giving it a market value of more than $250B
·
Buyout firms, facing scrutiny from regulators on fees and
expenses, are trying to keep details of those matters and many others from
becoming public through freedom-of-information-law requests being made by
journalists, unions, private citizens and others
·
Time Warner beat Q3 earnings estimates
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Activision Blizzard turned in third-quarter earnings ahead
of Wall Street’s expectations today, with non-GAAP earnings per share of 23
cents and revenue at $1.17B
Exec Moves:
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Former Fox Chairman Kevin Reilly
has closed a deal to join Turner Broadcasting as President of TNT and TBS and
Chief Creative Officer for Turner Entertainment
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Chris Tsakalakis, the President of
StubHub, has stepped down
Retail:
Startups:
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Customer loyalty program startup Thanx
launched today with both Visa and MasterCard partnerships and $4.7MM in Series
A funding from Sequoia Capital
·
Agorize, a company that relies on
open innovation and community crowdsourcing to let companies gather a lot of
data on new ideas and ventures, raised $2.6MM
·
El Segundo-based Aggregage, which
develops software driven B2B websites and newsletters which aggregate blog and
news postings for specific industries, has raised $1MM in a convertible note
·
PPzuche.com, a Beijing-based P2P
(peer to peer) car sharing platform, has raised $60MM in its Series B
Government:
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Please see below for ‘the winners and losers’ in politics
this morning
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Republicans took control of the Senate and expanded their
hold on the House in a rebuke of President Obama that will reshape the
political landscape for his final two years in office
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Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, has earned early
national exposure and donor appeal having raised a record $102MM for races as
chairman of the Republican Governors Association
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Voters in Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C. approved
ballot measures that allow the use of marijuana by adults
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Please see below for the best visualizations of the Mid-Term
Elections
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