Entertainment:
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Chroma Fund, which lets you IPO your own media projects,
including indie video games, films, or any other endeavor you think could make
a buck - you can’t IPO yourself (which the founder did in 2008), but you can
IPO your creativity
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GoPro is partnering with the NHL and NHLPA to incorporate
GoPro footage into live broadcasts of professional hockey games
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Vice News is offering a glimpse into what news broadcasting
might look like when VR is omnipresent with a report on the New York Millions
March from December
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iHeartMedia has today announced that its iHeartRadio streaming
music service has surpassed 60 million registered users
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Visible Measures, a startup focused on video analytics and
advertising, has launched a new site called True Reach, bringing viewing data
together from across the web
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are said to be in discussions to sell
a minority ownership share to a group of South Korean investors
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Confirming earlier reports, DreamWorks Animation announces it
will cut 500 jobs, about one-fifth of the work force, as part of a plan to
restructure its core feature animation business
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Sony will delay the official submission of its third-quarter
results due to the massive cyber attack on Sony Pictures, and has asked
financial regulators to extend the filing of its report to March 31 from Feb.
16
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The Ramdam Film Festival in Belgium has been cancelled due to
security concerns over terrorist threats
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Tugg Inc., the movie marketer that allows fans and creators to
choose the films that play in theaters, has partnered with Elizabeth Koch’s New
Balloon cross-platform media venture on an initiative to help market and
distribute culturally significant films
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Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures is forming a Virtual
Reality division of the company, forming a joint venture with artist Chris Milk
to develop VR content
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The Weinstein Company will release its Jake Gyllenhaal boxing
pic Southpaw wide on July 31
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Vimeo announced deals to create online video-on-demand
storefronts for long-form content with the publishers behind The Atlantic,
TVGuide.com, TV.Com, Metacritic and TEN: The Enthusiast Network
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TruTV is pushing into scripted fare with former NBA great
Shaquille O'Neal - the comedy is inspired by the wild and frenetic business
O'Neal has built following his 19-year career
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Quentin Tarantino has begun shooting his Western “The Hateful
Eight” in Telluride, Colo., for The Weinstein Co., which is planning a release
this year
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NBCUniversal’s international channels arm, Universal Networks
Intl., has decided to stop operating pay TV channels, including Universal
Channel and E! Entertainment Television, in Russia
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Cobie Smulders spoke with Indiewire about saying goodbye to
the show that made her name, and her two films playing at Sundance this year
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All of the leading providers of streaming music are now in the
scorching hot legal zone involving pre-1972 music after seven lawsuits were
filed on Thursday against Apple's Beat Electronics, Sony Entertainment, Google,
Rdio, Songza, Slacker and Escape Media Group
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A new report by Next Big Sound presents the state of the music
industry from a data point of view. Aimed at brands -- the traditional music
industry can still find plenty of useful information -- the web-based report
uses attractive charts and plain English to guide the reader through music's
impact across the Internet
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Independent film production company Crystal Sky Pictures has
taken the Ultra HD plunge in a global licensing agreement with NanoTech
Entertainment
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Leading production house FremantleMedia has increased its
shareholding in one of Europe's top multi-channel networks Divimove to 51%
Tech:
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Uber announced today that it will resume operations in New
Delhi, India - it was banned by authorities six weeks ago after a female
passenger accused an Uber driver of rape
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Twitter appears to be sending out a message to a group of very
high-profile users suggesting that these users post photos directly to Twitter
instead of sharing through Instagram
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Twitter has officially added Bing Translator to its site,
mobile apps for iOS and Android, and TweetDeck
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Already-forgotten, anti-Facebook social network Ello today
launched the ability to share music and video clips in its feed
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Please see below for TechCrunch’s new 13 questions series,
with former CEO of Makerbot Bre Pettis
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Snapchat is at the center of a murder investigation in Mount
Pleasant, South Carolina, after a teen allegedly stabbed and killed his
girlfriend over a message sent via the service
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France's second-biggest theme park, Puy du Fou, is enlisting
50 drones to keep guests entertained by incorporating them into its Cinéscénie
nighttime show
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Bond is a new company that uses bots to create ‘hand-written’
letters
Deals:
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Expedia agreed on Friday to buy its fellow travel booking site
Travelocity for $280MM in cash, nearly two years after the two forged a marketing
and technology partnership
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Box is going public today and opened at around $20.50, far
above its $14 IPO price, giving the company a valuation of around $2.5 billion
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Orange has unveiled a new fund
called Digital Ventures, with the aim of finding, strategically funding and
then working with early-stage tech businesses
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Hutchison Whampoa, one of the
flagship companies of the Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, said on Friday
that it had agreed to enter exclusive talks to buy O2, the British cellphone
carrier owned by the Spanish telecom giant Telefónica, for roughly $15B
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Amazon.com has agreed to buy
Annapurna Labs, an Israeli chip developer, for about $350MM
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Family Dollar Stores Inc’s
shareholders approved the discount retailer’s deal to be bought by Dollar Tree
Inc, effectively putting Dollar General Corp out of the race to buy the company
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Michael Bloomberg wants to purchase
The New York Times
Business:
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Tim Cook took in $9.2MM in 2014 — $1.7MM of that as salary,
$6.7MM as non-equity compensation
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Sprint is welcoming T-Mobile customers in the U.S. with open
arms and a sweet new deal - starting today, when T-Mobile customers switch over
to Sprint, they can get $200-$350 for trading in their phone
·
In-flight catalog SkyMall has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection
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The Winklevoss twins, two of the biggest boosters of Bitcoin,
are trying to firm up support for the virtual currency by creating the first
regulated Bitcoin exchange for American customers
·
The NYSE has issued a fresh warning to RadioShack saying it
could delist the struggling electronics retailer as its average market
capitalization stayed below $50MM for more than 30 consecutive days
·
KKR & Co. refunded money to investors in some of its
buyout funds after regulators found it overcharged them, marking one of the
highest-profile results yet of regulators’ increased scrutiny of the
private-equity business
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Ford Motor Co. opened a new Silicon Valley research center in
Palo Alto to speed up technology development and experiments in connectivity,
mobility, autonomous vehicles and big data
Exec Moves:
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The Weinstein Company has upped
Negeen Yazdi to president of International Production and Dan Guando to EVP
Acquisitions, Production & Development
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Millard “Mickey” Drexler, the retail
guru whose guidance helped launch the first Apple store, will retire from
Apple’s board of directors at the end of his term in March
Retail:
Startups:
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Antuit, the big data startup headquartered
in Singapore, raised $56MM in a round led by Goldman Sachs
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Santa Monica-based startup, Level
Sports connects users with an app to help their workout routine--and also link
you up workout routines created by others
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Beibei, a Chinese maternal and
infant product e-commerce platform, raised $100MM in its Series C
Government:
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Israel dealt Iran a painful blow on Sunday when it struck a
convoy of senior Iranian and Hezbollah commanders in Quneitra in the Golan
Heights
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European stocks extended seven-year highs following a strong
Asian session overnight, after the ECB announced plans yesterday to expand
asset purchases by €60B per month until at least September 2016
·
ISIS posted a warning online that the “countdown has begun”
for the execution of two Japanese hostages held in Syria, including a clock
counting down to zero
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Mitt Romney and Rand Paul are going to make climate change a
real issue in the GOP Primary
o
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120829/mitt-romney-rand-paul-make-climate-change-2016-gop-issue
Other:
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Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ascended to the throne of Saudi
Arabia after the death of his half-brother King Abdullah, taking the helm of
the biggest Arab economy amid political turmoil in the Middle East and tumbling
oil prices
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The New England Patriots face a potential fine or loss of
draft picks if a National Football League investigation finds the team broke
rules by deflating footballs used in its conference championship game victory
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