Entertainment:
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Thirty Labs plans to apply the Betaworks Model to building
video startups
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Lionsgate announced on Wednesday that Mr. John Malone, the
billionaire who controls the Liberty empire of media and telecommunications
businesses, would swap stock in the Starz cable channel for Lionsgate shares
and a board seat
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http://variety.com/2015/film/news/lionsgate-starz-swap-stock-as-john-malone-joins-board-1201430973/
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Jon Stewart is stepping down from ‘The Daily Show’ later this
year
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BitTorrent partners with Rapid Eye Studios to produce
exclusive TV shows known as ‘BitTorrent Originals’
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JW Player, the streaming video company that (in the words of
its president Chris Mahl) helps online publishers find “life after YouTube, or
life beyond YouTube,” has made a big move onto mobile with the general release
of its Android SDK
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TuneGo, a fledgling music discovery service for indie
musicians, has raised $1.2MM and is planning the official launch of its
platform for later this quarter
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Music-streaming platform Rdio has revealed a partnership with
AEG’s ticket-selling subsidiary AXS, one that aims to give gig-goers access to
their favorite songs on-demand for free — but only for a limited period of time
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There's no better illustration of the massive disruptive
impact of OTT options like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime than the decimation
of kids-oriented cable TV networks currently playing out
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http://www.videonuze.com/article/kids-oriented-cable-tv-networks-are-being-decimated-by-ott-options
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Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes appears to have changed his tune
on the potential threat from pay TV cord cutting
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Media megadeals might not hit the heady dollar amounts seen
last year — driven by AT&T’s planned acquisition of DirecTV and Comcast’s
with Time Warner Cable — according to a new report from research and consulting
firm PwC
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Joshua Roth is going to help lead UTA into a whole new world
of photographers, painters, sculptors, and mixed media and multi-platform
artists
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Nine months after Disney acquired Maker Studios for nearly $1B,
the online giant is busily burrowing into most corners of the Mouse House,
teaching media creators how to go short, said Ynon Kreiz
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Disney XD has ordered ‘Becoming’, a series from ESPN films
that features inspiring athlete profiles, executive produced by LeBron James
and his Springhill Prods
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Star India, the Indian pay TV arm of Rupert Murdoch's 21st
Century Fox, said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Telugu-language TV
networks group Maa TV
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Interactive One, the digital arm of media conglomerate Radio
One targeting African-American and urban audiences, has launched HB Studios
with a 2015 slate of about a dozen original video series
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Chinese online video platform LeTV has struck an agreement to
stream the PAC-12 U.S. men’s basketball games through the 2015 season
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Rhapsody announced Wednesday it surpassed 2.5 million global
subscribers, marking a 60-percent year-over-year increase and a 25-percent gain
since the company announced it reached the 2 million-subscriber milestone in
June.
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CAA Sports and Roc Nation Sports have ended their two-year
partnership
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This morning on ‘On Air With Ryan Seacrest’, Kanye West
announced that he and Taylor Swift would be collaborating musically
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Mediapro premieres Formula One network for LATAM
Tech:
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ThreatExchange is a set of application programming interfaces,
or APIs, that let disparate companies trade information about the latest online
attacks used by Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter, and Yahoo
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The new Nikon D810A has an “A” tacked onto its name for
“astrophotography”—that means it’s made for taking pictures of stars and
planets
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Voltera, the electronics printer, launched on Kickstarter to
much fanfare
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Tuesday was Internet Safety Day and Snapchat took the
opportunity to raise awareness of safety on its service after it introduced its
own ‘Safety Center’ resources site
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Tim Cook dropped a bit of news in a conversation at the
Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet conference today: Apple is putting a
massive $848MM into solar energy by building a solar farm in Monterey, CA
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-11/what-apple-just-did-in-solar-is-a-really-big-deal
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Snapchat cut off access from music video sharing app Mindie
citing its security policy
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Flipboard is finally coming to the platform where most digital
publishers start - after providing readers with beautiful, personalized mobile
magazines on their mobile devices, the company is re-launching its web page to
do the same
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Samsung's smart TVs have already come under fire this week for
a poorly worded privacy policy that apparently let the devices listen in on
owners' conversations. Now, there are reports that the sets are inserting ads
"every 20-30 minutes" into users' own, locally stored content
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eBay Bans One of Its Own Divisions From Selling Ads on eBay
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Twitter’s CFO, Anthony Noto, had his Twitter account hacked
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http://recode.net/2015/02/10/oh-noto-this-time-twitters-cfo-falls-for-a-spam-link-loses-his-account/
Deals:
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Atlassian hired a new CEO to gear up
for its IPO
·
Perion Network has acquired
MakeMeReach, a startup that lets mobile app developers extend ad campaigns to
social media platforms
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Sigfox, a startup based in the southwest corner of this
country, has raised $115MM to fund a global expansion of its wireless network
that is dedicated to connecting Internet of Things devices
Business:
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AOL reported revenues of $710.3MM and adjusted EPS of $0.92.
This was a mixed result: analysts were expecting revenues of $721.8MM and EPS
of $0.72, with advertising sales of $557.9MM and subscription sales of $148.2MM
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Apple, which began playing with a record valuation of $700B
during midday trading in November, ended the day yesterday at $710.7B, more
than twice as valuable as longtime rival Microsoft
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Tesla's Elon Musk is prepared to fire China executives,
sources told Reuters, after the company only sold about 120 cars in the country
last month
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. hired just 3 percent of more than
267,000 job applicants last year, as the firm told investors it’s still the top
destination for bankers
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Junior investment bankers who graduated from college only last
year are being madly courted by private equity firms like Apollo Global Management,
the Blackstone Group, Bain Capital and the Carlyle Group in a scramble that
kicked off last weekend
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In a rare instance of corporate criticism of a president,
Staples Inc. on Wednesday said that President Barack Obama “appears not to have
all the facts” when he criticized the company’s policy of limiting worker hours
Exec Moves:
Retail:
Startups:
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The Reserve app, which is a digital
concierge focused on making every part of the dining experience better, for
both restaurants and diners, raised $15MM in its Series A (Will.i.am, Jon
Favreau, and Jared Leto invested)
Government:
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European stocks are heading lower, led by a 3.3% drop in Greek
shares, as the country's finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, meets with euro
zone finance ministers in Brussels.
Other:
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British hardware store chain B&Q circulated a memo telling
staff to familiarize themselves with Fifty Shades of Grey ahead of an expected
boost in rope sales
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Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, has been charged with three counts of
first-degree murder after he allegedly killed three neighbors (all being
Muslim) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Tuesday night
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