Entertainment:
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Vimeo today announced that those subscribed to Vimeo Pro
accounts will now have the option of uploading their videos in 4K
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YouTube is now offering some of its most popular video
creators bonuses in exchange for signing exclusive multiyear deals
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CBS and Dish Network reached a new carriage fee deal over
the weekend, after CBS pulled CBS, CBS Sports and Showtime from Dish
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Boyhood won four awards - including best picture, actress
and director - from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association
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Time’s person of the year finalists have been revealed
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See below for an article on how CBS has pitched TV
advertising dollars to not go digital
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Allegedly, George Lucas hasn’t watched the new Star Wars
trailer
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The Sony PlayStation Network has now been hacked, and was
temporarily shut down
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French multiscreen video specialist Dotscreen has scored a
big domestic win with MYTF1VOD for the technical development of mobile,
connected TV and video game console applications.
Tech:
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Valve added individual broadcasting to its ever-growing
Steam gaming service, which competes against Twitch
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China is in the midst of a mobile
commerce boom, according to a new report from Alipay, the Alibaba-affiliated
payments service in China that handles more than 80 million transactions per
day
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Uber has been banned in the
Netherlands and New Delhi
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Please see below for an interesting report on online media
sales for the first half of 2014, Goggle leads the group
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Vidcoin is an advertising technology startup focused on
video ads for smartphones - the French startup makes watching video ads less
painful by providing an SDK that will buffer videos before playing them so that
they will instantly play
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Comcast has decided to turn every cable router on its
network into a public wi-fi access point. While this may sound like a good idea
– free Internet for all Comcast subscribers everywhere is the goal – the
reality clashes with the Internet user’s sense of freedom and control
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Google announced it has expanded Windows support on the
Google Cloud Platform
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Apple has revealed its top apps for 2014, and Elevate is at
the top of the list
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A group of 5th grade girls sent a GoPro into
space for a project
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Microsoft announced its special "Work & Play
Bundle" of subscription services last month, but the company is already
discounting it in time for the holidays
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An Uber driver in India has been arrested after suspected of
rape
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Venture capitalist Tim Draper won part of the U.S. Marshals
Service’ auction of 50,000 bitcoins
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Paul McCartney appears as a hologram in his new music video –
“Hope for the Future”
Deals:
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AppGyver has announced the
acquisition of AppArchitect, a company that provides app-building tools through
a drag-and-drop, no-code interface
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Rakuten is entering the soccer
industry in Japan after agreeing to buy J-League side Vissel Kobe
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Merck to acquire Cubits
Pharmaceuticals for $8.4B
Business:
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Blackstone will sells its California office buildings for
$3.5B
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The Swiss bank UBS has turned to Sqreem Technologies, a
company based in Singapore that uses artificial intelligence, for help
delivering personalized advice to the bank’s wealthy clients
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In 2015, advertising is expected to grow 4.9 percent to
$545B worldwide, but the next year it should leap 5.6 percent, helped by the
Summer Olympics, a U.S. presidential election and the UEFA European Football
Championship
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Please see below for a list of the top transactions from
last week
Exec Moves:
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Daniel Graf, who was just recently
bumped from his role as the head of Twitter’s product team, has parted ways
with the company altogether
o http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/twitters-former-head-of-product-daniel-graf-has-left-the-company/
Retail:
Startups:
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Instacart, a same-day grocery
delivery company delivering groceries and home essentials from a variety of
local stores, has raised $100MM in its Series C
Government:
Other:
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An apartment complex in
downtown Los Angeles burned early Monday morning in a fire that temporarily
shut down parts of two major freeways in the city
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Ferguson protests in Berkeley
turned violent over the weekend – explosives were thrown at cops
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