Entertainment:
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Please see below for articles on Vessel - a sort of Hulu for
the YouTube generation
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Dish Network is the first major U.S. pay-tv provider to
integrate Netflix into its set-top box
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Netflix’s Director of Corporate Communications has stated
that Netflix users won’t be able to use Netflix offline – as Wi-Fi is
ubiquitous
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Sony has today announced its own take on Google Glass, with
a module that clips onto your glasses to ‘smartify’ them
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A threatening message from the Guardians of Peace, the group
responsible for hacking Sony, is alleging an attack on movie theaters that plan
to screen “The Interview.”
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NowThis Media, which covers the news with videos that are
usually around 15 or 30 seconds long, is announcing that it has raised $6MM in
Series C funding
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Please see below for an op-ed penned by Albert Lai (CTO of
Brightcove) about Pay TV disruption
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Hulu is bolstering its premium content lineup, with a new
deal with Disney-ABC Television
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YuMe has released results of a 500-person online survey
about Super Bowl XLIX viewing intentions, finding that 37% of consumers plan to
watch the game on a connected device
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Lionsgate Entertainment tried last summer to meet with Kazuo
Hirai, Sony’s chief executive, to discuss a possible merger or acquisition
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21st Century Fox and Apollo Global Management today
announced they have completed transaction of merging Endemol, Shine Group and
CORE Media
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A cameraman working on the latest Jackie Chan pic ‘Skiptrace’
has drowned while filming, according to local report
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http://deadline.com/2014/12/jackie-chan-cameraman-drowns-johnny-knoxville-fan-bingbing-1201328004/
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Australia's Village Roadshow Ltd said its distribution unit
has acquired a roughly one-third stake in FilmNation, the U.S.-based film sales
and output unit run by CEO Glen Basnet
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The big “Christmas gift” promised by Sony's cyber-attackers
turned out to be thousands of emails stolen from Sony Pictures co-Chairman and
CEO Michael Lynton
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Fox, Tribune Media and Univision have joined forces with
Timeline Labs to announce NewCoin LLC, a data venture they say addresses
deficiencies in local market television audience measurement
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Sony Pictures has now been slapped by former employees with
the first of what could be many class action suits
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Imagem, one of the largest indie publishers with revenues of
about $125MM in 2013, has been taken off the block after a failed auction
process
o
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6406597/imagem-no-longer-for-sale-after-failed-auction-process
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The TRACE Live Network has closed an $2.5MM in funding,
which it will use to further develop opportunities for the TRACEr1 - an
intelligent camera capable of following its owner around using a series of motorized
vehicles while live streaming captured footage to the Web
Tech:
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Please see below for an interesting article on trending new
media startups
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Leaked emails from the Sony Pictures hack have uncovered
several acquisitions made by Snapchat (Scan and Vergence Labs), as well as
plans for a music feature and meetings to discuss partnerships with Twitter
o http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/17/7408241/leaked-emails-reveal-snapchats-troubled-musical-ambitions
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Facebook will now auto-enhance newly uploaded photos starting
today on iOS and soon on Android
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Vinli is building an app ecosystem for vehicles and just
partnered with one of the biggest players in the growing space: Dash
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Tile, the small tracking device that helps you keep track of
all kinds of items, has made its way to Android
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BlackBerry today announced the BlackBerry Classic
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Smiletime is a startup that is making a “social,
multi-camera, interactive, live experience”, the backers in his seed round
include Miramar Digital Ventures, Machinima founder Allen DeBevoise and game
designer Cliff Bleszinski
Deals:
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21st Century Fox has agreed to
acquire interactive ad company True[x] Media for $200MM
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Purch acquires hardware review
publication AnandTech
Business:
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OnDeck Capital, which makes loans to small businesses, went
up 35% after its IPO yesterday
Exec Moves:
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Magic Leap has teamed up with big-name science fiction writer and game designer Neal
Stephenson
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Following the drama over the
summer, American Apparel has terminated founder Dov Charney's employment and
managers are disgruntled
Retail:
Startups:
Government:
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The US and Cuba are working on normalizing relations by
releasing the Aid Worker Alan Gross, and possibly ending the embargo
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President Obama is expected to sign legislation by the end
of the week implementing new sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis
Other:
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Sean Parker has announced he will donate $24MM to the
Stanford University School of Medicine to create a new center that will
research severe food allergies
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Shaq spends $1k a week on
apps
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