Entertainment:
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FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai sent a letter to Netflix CEO Reed
Hastings, alleging that the online video provider was working to “effectively
secure” Internet “fast lanes” for its content
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Nielsen has released its Q3 2014 Total Audience Report, the
highlight of which is the marked reduction in linear TV viewing across every
age group except 65+, with an accompanying surge in online video
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Demarest Films and Kilburn Media have partnered to launch
Eclipse Television, a full-service independent producer and financier of
small-screen content
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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts
unveiled its nominees today with sci-fi thriller Predestination leading the
pack of feature films at nine mentions.
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The three class-action suits over alleged anti-poaching and
wage-fixing deals by Sony, Disney, DreamWorks Animation and other animation
studios have been consolidated into one big lawsuit
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Ryan Gosling allegedly earns $7MM for his roles in indie
films
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IAC, the digital-media conglomerate headed by Barry Diller,
is pulling the plug on nRelate, its native-advertising division that sold
content-recommendation ad inventory
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Please see below for the announcement of the star studded
cast of the “Suicide Squad”
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A clutch of public interest groups, unions and media
companies including Dish Network and Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze have formed the
“Stop Mega Comcast” coalition to advocate against federal approval of the $45B
cable merger
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Please see below for a list of Spotify’s most streamed
artists
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Richard Rosenblatt is launching a startup called Whipclip in
private beta today, and has signed a series of deals with big media companies
and attracted a roster of entertainment and venture investors to back a mobile
app that allows consumers to clip popular moments from television
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Please see below for an interesting article on how economics
tells us about the trustworthiness of movie reviews
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UK communications infrastructure and media services company
Arqiva has taken a number of its popular channels to the YouView
non-subscription on-demand service
Tech:
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Sonos has raised $130MM to put smart speakers in every home
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Google announced that many of its “Captchas”—the squiggled
text tests designed to weed out automated spambots—will be reduced to nothing
more than a single checkbox next to the statement “I’m not a robot.”
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In a project called Phantom Terrains, Frank Swain and sound
artist Daniel Jones hacked hearing aids in order to translate the unseen world
of wi-fi signals into soundscapes
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Dropbox launched an application programming interface, or
API, that lets outside developers build software on top of its Dropbox for
Business service
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Bitserve, in conjunction with Gold Bullion International, have
created a new gold standard, linking its bitcoin currency exchange and payment
services with gold
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Twitter for iOS and Android today replaced its clumsy photo
filter grid with a much simpler Instagram-style row of adjustable filters
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Valve just announced the beta version of Steam Broadcasting,
a tool for watching your friends play from within the company’s popular game
store and community hub, to compete against Twitch
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Please see below for an interesting article on the Internet
of Things
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Games could become the largest ad platform for brands, EA
exec has stated
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Two months after Truecaller nabbed $60MM to help users avoid
spammers and nuisance calls, the Swedish startup has now passed the 100 million
users
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Facebook expanded its video advertising offerings Tuesday,
announcing that marketers can now feature autoplay video content within the
service’s long-offered App Install ads
Deals:
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Fits.me, the developer of virtual
fitting room solutions for e-commerce retailers and New York-based Clothes
Horse, a data-driven recommendations tool that helps shoppers find fitting
clothes have merged
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Stripe has raised another $70MM,
doubling its valuation to $3.5B
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Two of Peter Fenton’s startups,
Hortonworks and New Relic, will go public next Friday
Business:
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Google looks to have some big plans for Los Angeles
expansion, as news broke this morning that the company has acquired 12 acres in
Playa Vista, paying an estimated $120MM on the property
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The Japanese toymaker Tomy said that it would spend up to
$56.1MM buying back around 10% of its outstanding shares, including 4.6% from
the private equity firm TPG Capital
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IBM has landed a 7-year, $1.25B contract to transform and
manage WPP's global technology platform
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Toyota is cutting 2,600 workers in Australia citing high
production costs and a strong Australian dollar
Exec Moves:
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Evan Shapiro exited as Pivot’s
president in a management shakeup at Participant Media's startup network, now
he is joining NBCUniversal as EVP Digital Enterprises
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Universal Pictures has tapped
Michael Wise as SVP and Chief Technology Officer
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Jimmy Iovine has joined Live Nation’s
Board of Directors
Retail:
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Coach, Brown Shoe Company and at least one private equity
buyer are said to be among the bidders for Stuart Weitzman, the woman’s luxury
shoemaker
Startups:
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Nestio, the NYC-based real estate
startup focused on changing the way brokers and landlords go about their daily
business, has raised a $1.6MM
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Skype co-founder Janus Friis is
backing a new communications app called Wire, out now for iOS, Android and Mac
OS X
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Misfit Wearables, which develops
wearable products with sensor technology for the health and fitness industry,
has raised $40MM in its Series C
Government:
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Speaking a day after President Vladimir Putin said Russia is
scrapping a proposed $45B pipeline to Europe, the government predicted the
economy will contract next year and canceled a bond auction
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UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced that
the country will pay off the remainder of debt from World War I - the
outstanding debt of nearly $3B
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The euro slipped to a two-year low with the latest dose of
drab economic data bolstering expectations of further easing ahead of the ECB’s
monthly meeting
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