Entertainment:
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YouTube has launched its own GIF making feature
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Please see below for an article on how Amazon and Netflix
will be battling it out at this year’s Golden Globes
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Hearst Corporation and DreamWorks Animation said late
Thursday that Hearst has taken a 25% stake in Awesomeness.TV, for $81.25MM, in
a deal that values Awesomeness.TV at around $325MM
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Please see below for emails from the Sony hack about Mark
Cuban on ‘Shark Tank’
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Fox, NBC and CBS along with WME, IMG and ESPN want to see a
potentially sprawling legal action filed over two months ago by 10 college
football and basketball players tossed
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CBS just announced that CEO Les Moonves, who's 65, will stay
through June 30, 2019, a two-year extension from the deal made two years ago
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Tribune Media execs told Wall Street today to expect lower
profit margins in 2015 as the company spends to built its TV production
operation and converts superstation WGN America into a basic cable channel
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“In a City”, the 4K-resolution short film that Joseph
Gordon-Levitt directed/coordinated, using a relatively inexpensive new Samsung
camera called the NX1, has arrived on YouTube
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Two days after Facebook and Google unit YouTube released
their 2014 Top 10s, the Google Play online store has come out with its
best-selling movies, TV shows, books, apps, music and more – “The Walking Dead”
tops the list
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Fox’s “Exodus: Gods and Kings” has opened solidly with an
estimated $1.2 million at 2,500 locations in Thursday night showings in the
U.S.
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ID Leisure, a Chinese investor and associate of Dalian
Wanda, is the front runner to buy Australian cinema chain Hoyts
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Pandora is coming under fire from the Sony/ATV Chairman for
its payouts to songwriters and publishers
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Aided by an acquisition and gains in streaming services,
Warner Music Group revenues topped $3B for the first time in five years
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Nearly 8 million old-fashioned vinyl records have been sold
this year, up 49% from the same period last year, industry data shows
o http://www.marketwatch.com/story/vinyl-record-factories-race-to-keep-up-with-demand-surge-2014-12-12
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Becoming the first Mexican operator to offer the whole HBO
package in the country, Axtel TV has launched HBO On Demand
Tech:
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Baidu invested $600MM in Uber
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Lindsay Lohan’s The Price of Fame debuted at #10 in the App
Store yesterday
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MusiXmatch, the song lyrics database and maker of
accompanying lyric-viewing mobile apps, has released a brand new app called
‘Clip‘
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SendVid is a new startup that lets users upload and send
video quickly (Imgur for video)
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VideoAmp officially launching today, and it’s also
announcing that it has $2.2MM in funding from Anthem Venture Partners, Simon
Equity Partners, Third Wave Capital, Wavemaker Partners, and ZenShin Capital
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Amazon’s flagship application’s listing is no longer
available via search from within Google Play, though its direct link is still
live
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On-demand ride startup Lyft has been pushing its shared-ride
feature Lyft Line, which will now roll out in NYC
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Ford launched its Sync 3, its next-generation, in-car
technology package that’s, as you’d expect, faster, sleeker and much improved
from the old one
o http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/11/ford-ditches-microsoft-for-qnx-in-latest-in-vehicle-tech-platform/
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Shuffler.fm wants to move beyond music curation and cure
‘digital obesity’ on the whole Web
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AwesomeAds is an ad server built for privacy requirements of
the kids industry
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New research from Ipsos indicates that Twitter users are
more likely to have a pay-TV subscription, and more likely to watch traditional
TV, than people who don’t use the service
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LinkedIn has unveiled a redesigned home page that includes a
few minor changes that should get users connecting with one another more
frequently
Deals:
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Adobe announced that it has
acquired Fotolia, a popular marketplace for stock photography and video, for
approximately $800MM in cash
o http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/11/adobe-acquires-stock-content-marketplace-fotolia-for-800m-in-cash/
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Oculus VR has made two computer
vision acquisitions - it is acquiring Nimble VR, a developer of hand tracking
technology; 13th Lab, a developer of technology to acquire 3D models of the
real world
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Permira, which acquired Hugo Boss in
2007, plans to sell 4.9 million shares in a private placement, representing a
7% - it will be left with a 32%
Business:
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Qualcomm this summer announced
plans to invest $150MM in Chinese startups, and it has cracked that new fund
open to put $40MM into five different organizations in the country, including
voice recognition startup Unisound and games development firm Chukong
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The price of Brent crude oil
plummeted to its lowest level since 2009, after the International Energy Agency
cut its 2015 demand forecast
Exec Moves:
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SeaWorld CEO Jim Atchison is
stepping down as head of the company and named his chairman David D'Alessandro
as interim leader until a replacement is found
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Kim Williams, formerly of CORE
Media Group, will be the new Warner Bros. CFO
Retail:
Startups:
Government:
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Please see below for an interesting article on why the
Federal Reserve should copy Bitcoin and create its own digital currency
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Europe (Oslo, Norway) has passed on hosting the 2022 Winter
Olympics
Other:
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James Corner Field Operations
was announced this week as the firm chosen to redesign the New Presidio
Parklands Project in San Francisco
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