Entertainment:
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Please see below for an interesting article on Liberty Global
and how it can be viewed as a takeover target
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It wasn’t the Super Bowl, but in terms of social-media buzz, ‘Saturday
Night Live’s 40th Anniversary’ show during Sunday primetime probably was as
close to the big game as the late-night landmark will ever get
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Fandango said today it sold 29% of the domestic tickets for ‘Fifty
Shades Of Grey‘s’ three-day opening weekend, the largest share for any film in
its 15-year history
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Through the end of Sunday, Universal is estimating that ‘Fifty
Shades Of Grey’ will post a $266.4MM worldwide opening, comprised of a
stateside four-day bow of $94.4MM and a $172MM foreign launch
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Sling TV to add EPIX to its platform
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MoffettNathanson analyst Craig Moffett on Tuesday cut his
ratings on big cable sector stocks from “buy” to “neutral,” citing increased
cord cutting risk, regulatory concerns about the planned Comcast acquisition of
Time Warner Cable and a recent rally in stocks
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Paradigm Talent Agency has unveiled its new logo as part of a
rebrand following sustained expansion
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Swedish songwriters have a bone to pick with digital music
streaming services, which they say are not allocating a fair percentage of
their revenue to the people who actually write the songs
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Growing by 140% in Latin America, Telefónica´s Movistar TV is
leading the HD growth wave across the region, driving great results for the
pay-TV business of the Spanish telco
Tech:
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Apple has put hundreds of employees on a project to make an
Apple car, which is codenamed “Titan,” and being led by Steve Zadesky, a former
Ford engineer who helped develop the iPod and iPhone
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Apple has been awarded a patent by the USPTO (via
AppleInsider) for a head-mounted virtual reality set that uses an iPhone as the
display and computing component
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Sony has put a developer edition of its forthcoming smart
glasses, branded as SmartEyeglass, up for pre-order today, starting with the
U.K. and Germany for $840 USD
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VLC for iOS, a popular media player application that has had a
shaky history with the iOS App Store, now appears to be returning to the mobile
app marketplace following its removal around the time iOS 8 launched in
September 2014
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Google is continuing to open its Android platform to mobile
developers in China after it announced a localized version of its Google
Developers YouTube channel for the country
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Facebook has patented a clever idea that allows the company to
watch the rate at which a piece of
content like a link is shared, then figure out whose posting led to a sudden
increase in share rate in their network
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Ad tech provider This Technology has been awarded a patent
covering key dynamic ad insertion (DAI) functionality, which relates to
"identifying dynamic ad inventory and defining attributes like ownership,
length and interactivity, which are all critical requirements for targeted
advertising delivery"
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Thousands of businesses could receive clearance to fly drones
two years from now under proposed rules that the FAA unveiled Sunday, a
landmark step that will make automated flight more commonplace in the nation’s
skies
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Apple is in the process of redesigning its stores, drawing on
the design expertise of Jony Ive
Deals:
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Oneflare, a local services directory
based in Sydney, Australia, announced today that it has acquired WOMO, which
claims to be the country’s largest customer reviews site
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Los Angeles-based j2 Global, which
operates an wide range of Internet services, said today that its Excel Micro
business has acquired the assets of Nuvotera, a provider of email security
services
Business:
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Cisco CEO John Chambers said that the company is taking tiny
steps to ramp up its investments in French startups, starting by investing
$100MMin multiple French startups over the coming years
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Asset managers may soon overtake “average” investment bankers
in pay
·
Vodafone is turning its focus to broadband to catch up to its
rivals
·
See below for an interesting article on how including Drexel Burnham
will help augment resumes
·
Just a little over a month before Apple releases its smartwatch,
LG has unveiled a new smart "luxury timepiece" called the LG Watch
Urbane, which features a 1.3 inch touchscreen display and runs on Google's
Android Wear
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Billionaire investor Richard Perry is the latest hedge-fund
heavyweight to exit Herbalife, following on the heels of George Soros
·
GoPro Inc. shares surged 8% Tuesday as a lock-up on 76 million
shares expired
Exec Moves:
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Van Toffler, President of MTV
Networks Music & Logo Group at Viacom, is leaving the company after 28
years
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Univision Communications said CFO
and SVP Andy Hobson has resigned
Retail:
Startups:
·
Please see below for interesting
article on Jet.com and how it will help small businesses while competing
against Amazon
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A new company called Parent Co. is launching
today, backed by $1.8MM in angel funding, with the goal of creating a line of
digital products designed to meet the needs of modern parents
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Applicaster is a startup originally
out of Israel which offers a number of what’s known these days as ‘synchronised
social experiences’ - in other words they can literally sync a TV broadcast
with a social app
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Firefly Games wants to bridge the East
West cultural divide - the Los Angeles startup is announcing today it has
raised $8<< to bring top-grossing mobile games from Asia to the West
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WeTransfer, which is a cloud-based
file transfer service designed to transmit small to large files, raised $25MM
in its Series A
Government:
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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that is
decision time for Greece regarding a bailout
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Top lawmakers in the House and Senate have begun their own
probes into a recent wave of fraudulent tax filings made through Intuit's
TurboTax, highlighting a growing problem in the "e-filing" industry
Other:
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At least 18 people were killed and 60 injured early on Tuesday
when a carnival float hit a power line in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince
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ISIS burned 45 people to death in western Iraq, according to
the police chief of the town of al-Baghdadi
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A federal judge in Texas issued a temporary halt to President
Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration Monday, agreeing with Texas and
25 other states in a lawsuit aimed at blocking the directive
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The US government isn't just fighting ISIS on the ground —
it's also been battling the terrorist group online, trying to counteract ISIS'
propaganda with messaging of its own
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