Entertainment:
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Telecom giant Singtel is planning to beat Netflix to the punch
in Asia after it announced it has partnered with Sony Pictures and Warner
Brothers to introduce a video streaming service in the region
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Aspiro, which is behind the streaming services WiMP and Tidal,
announced that Jay-Z’s company, Project Panther, had submitted a bid to acquire
Aspiro for $56MM
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Canon’s announcing a new pro-level DSLR camera next week,
according to CanonRumors, and now specs have leaked that reveal what we can
expect
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Please see below for an interesting article on Sling TV
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Early this morning, LASD arrested Suge Knight on suspicion of
murder for the fatal hit and run that occurred near the set of the commercial
being shot for the upcoming F. Gary Grey-directed N.W.A biopic ‘Straight Outta
Compton’
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"I really have no interest in science fiction at
all," said George Lucas to Robert Redford at the Sundance Film Festival
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Sony Pictures Classics will team up with director Woody Allen
for the eighth time on his next film, now titled ‘Irrational Man’
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Chinese online giant Tencent has signed a deal with the
National Basketball Association (NBA) to extend their partnership in China by
five years and create the league's largest international digital partnership
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Please see below for a clarifying article on YouTube’s “Music
Key” and their terms for artists
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Please see below for the best virtual reality from the 2015
Sundance Film Festival
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Online subscription video services are driving connected TV
activities according to research from Futuresource Consulting
Tech:
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AirBnB’s new head of design doesn’t believe that design-led
companies will work
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Technology companies that want to sell equipment to Chinese
banks will have to submit to extensive audits, turn over source code, and build
“back doors” into their hardware and software, according to a copy of the rules
obtained by foreign companies already doing billions of dollar worth of
business in the country
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Reddit just released its first transparency report, outlining
the requests for user information and for content takedown that it received in
2014
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Facebook invaded the territory occupied by Yelp and
Foursquare, launching a new feature for the Facebook iPhone app that delivers
information about where its users are in real-time
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With the latest earnings reports from Microsoft and Apple,
“the once unthinkable became reality: Apple’s market capitalization hit $683B,
more than double Microsoft’s current value of $338B
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Design firm argodesign has a wild conceptual solution. It’s a
one-person ambulance drone modeled after a standard quadcopter—driven by a GPS,
pilot, or combination of both—that could be dispatched to an emergency scene
with a single EMT
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AOL is shutting down The Unofficial Apple Weblog, better known
as TUAW
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Vine just released a version of its app made just for kids
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Kabam’s revenue for 2014 was $400MM, a new record for the
company — but it’s scaling back some of its underperforming divisions
o
http://recode.net/2015/01/29/kabam-cuts-back-on-third-party-publishing-as-revenue-tops-400-million/
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Nintendo wants to share YouTube ad revenue with the people who
make videos about its games — and is already getting pecked to death over its
rules and restrictions
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Leading Japanese digital media agency D.A.Consortium (DAC) has
tapped online advertising firm YuMe for tools to build a private ad marketplace
Deals:
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DMG Media, publisher of UK newspaper
The Daily Mail, announced this morning that it has acquired Elite Daily
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Early stage venture capital
investors Kickstart Seed Fund announced today that it has raised a $39.2MM investment
round from various Utah investors
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Please see below for today’s top
tech funding stories
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Shake Shack's initial public
offering priced well above expectations at $21 apiece, netting the burger chain
a valuation of $745MM
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Qatar Airways said on Friday that it
had acquired a 9.99 percent stake in the International Airlines Group, the
parent company of British Airways and Iberia of Spain
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The Hershey Company announced plans
on Thursday to buy Krave, a fast-growing business intent on turning jerky into
the next upscale snack food
Business:
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Rothenburg Ventures started a new VR accelerator for health
and education
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Amazon just released its fiscal Q4 2014 earnings, reporting
$29.33B in revenue, $214MM in net profit representing $0.45 per share
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Google reported its third-quarter earnings after close of
market today, offering up gross revenue of $18.10B, revenue net of traffic
acquisition costs (ex-TAC) of $14.5B, and non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of
$6.88, with GAAP EPS of $6.91
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Sega said in a filing today that it will shut down its San
Francisco offices which were once the flagship of its Sega’s Western empire - the
move will likely impact around 120 jobs
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Visa announced an 11.5% increase in profit during the quarter,
as a strengthening U.S. job market and cheaper gasoline prices encouraged
people to spend
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Cablevision is suing Verizon, accusing the company of falsely
advertising the "fastest WiFi available"
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Blackstone has raised about $700MM from wealthy individuals
for a new fund intended expressly for this class of investors, a new and
largely untapped source of capital for buyout firms
Exec Moves:
Retail:
Startups:
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Santa Monica-based game console
developer Ouya has just scored $10MM in an investment round from Chinese e-commerce
giant Alibaba, as part of an effort to take the company's technology to China
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Minibar, which provides on-demand
delivery of wine, spirits, beer & mixers, just raised $1.8MM in a seed
round
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Business Insider raised $25MM in a
venture round
Government:
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Mitt Romney is out of the 2016 race - he is expected to
confirm the decision in a conference call Friday morning
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In simultaneous attacks on Thursday, militants hit more than a
dozen army and police targets in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 25
soldiers and one policeman and wounding more than 60
Other:
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The secondary market for Super Bowl tickets follows a
predictable pattern. Prices sit flat in the $3,000 to $4,000 range, depending on
where the game is being played, until two weeks before the game, when the
matchup is set
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Rita Jeptoo, the female Kenyan runner who has won the Boston
and Chicago marathons for the last two years, has been barred from competitions
for failing a drug test
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Please see below for a funny video starring Matt Damon, Ben
Affleck and other Boston-born actors about ‘Deflategate’ – concerning Tom Brady
and deflating footballs
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