Entertainment:
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Chris Hemsworth has been booked to host NBC’s ‘Saturday Night
Live’ on March 7, with the Zac Brown Band as musical guest
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In a conversation on Reddit today, the Magic Leap CEO
(augmented reality startup that raised $542MM) is looking for ways to showcase
its technology to the public before it launches. “Stay tuned,” Abovitz wrote,
“gold tickets coming.”
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In its final season, ‘Parks and Recreation’ jumped forward to
2017, setting the stage for more than a few digs at the influence of tech culture
on America's communities
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Netflix just announced the expansion of its kids programming
with the addition of five new shows: Danger Mouse, Inspector Gadget, Some
Assembly Required, Bottersnikes and Gambles, and Super4
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More evidence of TV Everywhere's momentum today, as
FreeWheel's Q4 2014 Video Monetization Report found that 56% of long-form and
live ads were viewed via authentication
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DreamWorks Animation swung to a loss in the fourth quarter
even with advance writedowns on films The Penguins of Madagascar, Mr.
Peabody, and Sherman
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Lady Gaga to star in season 5 of ‘American Horror Story’
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Broad Green Pictures said it has acquired a 45% stake in David
Garrett’s London-based sales and distribution outfit Mister Smith Entertainment
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Writer-director Judd Apatow is headlining a benefit tonight at
Largo in Los Angeles for The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
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When Lady Gaga hit the high notes on four songs as part of a
50th-anniversary tribute to ‘The Sound of Musi’c and shared a hug with its star
Julie Andrews, Facebook and Twitter experienced their highest activity of the
night
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‘The Lego Movie’ is set to return in 2018 with Rob Schrab
(Community and Parks and Recreation) making his feature directorial debut
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The official talking points around Sling — both for Dish
Network and their programming partners like ESPN — is that Sling is a Web-TV
service targeted at millennials who have never signed up for pay TV. So it can
help them work their way up to a traditional pay-TV subscription, or at least
give the pay-TV guys a new revenue source
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Digital video's growth is now being driven by the crown jewels
of the TV industry, namely first-run shows and live events, according to the
latest FreeWheel video monetisation report
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Fortified by its recent $24MM cash injection, Machinima has
sealed a deal with Vimeo to bring its network of over 30,000 creators onto the
latter's open self‐distribution
platform.
Tech:
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Airbnb is partnering with T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom to
preinstall its app in Android smartphones sold across 13 markets in Europe,
including DT’s home market of Germany
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China has dropped some of the world's leading technology
brands from its approved state purchase lists in what could be a response to
revelations of widespread Western cyber surveillance
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Media Temple, the popular GoDaddy-owned web hosting service,
today announced an expansion of its dedicated WordPress hosting service
·
Layer, the company making it possible for developers to add
rich messaging capabilities to their apps without having to build their own
infrastructure from the ground up, is today making its service available to the
public, following its beta period
·
Thanks to a brand new IFTTT channel, Scout can now interact
with everything from your phone to your Jawbone Up, and from Google Docs to
Facebook
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Only a month ago, Tumblr upgraded its writing interface to
better compete with newer blogging platform Medium, best known for its
long-form content. Today, Medium is turning the tables and moving into Tumblr’s
territory instead with a series of changes that encourage writers to share stories
of any length
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http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/24/medium-goes-after-tumblr-with-changes-that-encourage-shorter-posts/
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Facebook’s Oculus VR division announced it will hold its Mobile
VR Jam on April 13 with $1MM in prizes
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Apple has been ordered to pay $532.9MM in damages after a
federal jury decided its iTunes software infringed three patents owned by
Texas-based licensing firm Smartflash
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Pinterest is projected
to have just more than 47 million monthly active users in the U.S. this year,
and top 50 million next year, according to a new estimate from researcher
eMarketer
Deals:
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Please see below for the 9 largest
startup funding rounds of the last 2 years
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Toro, a startup that helps
developers promote their apps on Facebook, just announced that it’s been
acquired by Google
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Xero, which provides cloud
accounting software and services for accounting professionals and small businesses,
with over 400,000 global customers, raised $110.8MM in PE money
·
In a new S-1, GoDaddy declared plans
to list on the NYSE under the symbol "GDDY" and announced IPO
underwriters including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Citi and others
Business:
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The Dow and S&P 500 hit new records yesterday, closing at
18,209 and 2,115, respectively, as investors attempted to infer a subtle change
in emphasis from Fed Chair Janet Yellen's testimony
·
Target today said that it has booked $162MM in expenses across
2013 and 2014 related to its data breach, in which hackers broke into the
company’s network to access credit card information
·
Charles W. Ergen, the billionaire who controls the satellite
TV provider Dish Network, and his company are about to make a cool $3.25B — courtesy
of the American taxpayer
·
Cushman & Wakefield, one of the world’s biggest commercial
real estate companies, is seeking a buyer, according to people briefed on the
matter
·
Please see below for an interesting article on how
hyper-luxury cars are selling faster than normal ones
Exec Moves:
Retail:
Startups:
Government:
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Yesterday, President Obama put a veto on a bill to approve the
long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline
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The Austrian parliament has passed a controversial bill that
bans foreign funding for the religion in Austria, as well as foreign Imams,
many of whom are paid by neighboring Turkey
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Saudi Arabia sentences a man to death for tearing up the Koran
·
Three Republican governors with an eye on the presidency—Chris
Christie, Scott Walker, and Bobby Jindal—are facing fiscal challenges at home
as they lay the groundwork for national campaigns
·
Rahm Emanuel will face a runoff election to keep his seat as
mayor of Chicago
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