Entertainment:
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Apple’s HBO Now deal has been in the works for a year
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HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ fifth season will premiere in over 170
countries and territories across the globe simultaneously with the U.S. airing
on Sunday, April 12 at 9:00pm ET
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Disneyland has invested $1B in the Magicband that wields
unique access to their parks, and replaces nearly every transaction you’d make
inside the parks
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See below for an interesting article on HBO Now’s pricing
challenge
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In the US, we get new music on Tuesdays. France and the United
Kingdom get theirs on Monday. It's Friday in Germany - Starting this summer,
all new album and single releases will drop on the same day (Friday) worldwide
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Reliance Entertainment is partnering with India’s Phantom
Films, a leading production outfit formed by four of the country’s brightest
indie filmmakers
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See below for the first full trailer for ‘San Andreas’, the
disaster flick from New Line Cinema and Village Roadshow
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Sony Pictures is broadening the ‘Ghostbusters’ franchise and
the first order of business will be an action-centric comedy that is a
counterpart to the Paul Feig-directed film that will start production in June
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Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson announced ‘Zoolander 2’ on
Valentino’s runway in Parish Fashion week
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Hillary Schwartz, the first assistant director on “Midnight
Rider,” was sentenced to 10 years of probation Tuesday as she faced charges of
criminal trespass and involuntary manslaughter
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Wall Street and Hollywood have been buzzing about the
possibility of a merger between Starz and Lionsgate ever since the companies
swapped stock last February, making them, in the words of Starz CEO Chris
Albrecht,” kissing cousins.”
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A rape documentary banned from airing in India received its
U.S. premiere at a star-studded event on Monday that included actresses Meryl
Streep and Freida Pinto
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A Digital TV Research study is predicting that pay-TV revenues
in the Asia Pacific region will grow by $10B between 2014 and 2020 to reach
$41.52B
Tech:
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See below for the economics of the Apple Watch
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See below for articles on the Apple Watch and new Macbook –
they’re changing the charging ports on the Macbook and the Watch will be priced
from $350-$10k+
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Android Wear is reportedly getting some updates that will help
it mirror or offer alternatives to some of the big wearable advantages Apple
has made available on the new Apple Watch, including input and connectivity
tweaks
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Starbucks’ mobile ordering system, which allows customers to
place orders in advance of their visit to the store, pay from their phone, then
skip the line when they arrive, is today rolling out to more locations across
the Pacific Northwest
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Twitter opened a Hong Kong office today with the goal of
helping companies in China market to overseas consumers
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Flipboard wants to make it easier for you to read your saved
articles on the web by letting you log in with a QR code
o
http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/10/flipboard-turns-to-qr-codes-to-encourage-you-to-read-on-the-web/
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Adobe Primetime has added two important features that help
content providers better monetize their video ad inventory and improve the
user's experience
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SocialRank, a relatively new social data metrics company that
analyzes Twitter accounts to provide easily digestible insights into its
followers and engagement rates, today launched its Music Index
Deals:
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PayPal is buying CyActive, a
specialist in predictive malware detection based out of Israel
o http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/10/confirmed-paypal-to-acquire-israeli-cybersecurity-firm-cyactive/
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Bain Capital is poised to acquire
Blue Coat Systems for $2.4B, in a nod to the fast-growing cybersecurity market
Business:
Exec Moves:
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Los Angeles-based Vixlet, a startup
developing a social networking site linked to sports leagues, teams, and entertainment
companies, said this morning that it has named former General Motors Chairman
and CEO Daniel "Dan" Akerson as a special advisor
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Alibaba is shuffling the top ranks
at its Chinese shopping platforms amid growing concerns of counterfeit goods
and other problems at the e-commerce giant's marketplaces
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Credit Suisse on Tuesday said it
will appoint Tidjane Thiam as chief executive, to replace Brady Dougan, who
will step down at the end of June 2015
Retail:
Startups:
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Gett, an international Uber
competitor making a big push in NYC, has today reduced fixed and predictable
pricing by up to 25 percent, aiming to compete more squarely with Uber’s UberX
service
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SimpliVity, which offers Omnicube™,
an IT infrastructure platform that provides enterprise computing, storage
services, and network functionality, raised $175MM in its Series D
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Do, which makes meetings and
presentations more focused, raised $2MM in seed
Government:
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Obama has announced a plan to fast-track American earnings
with a $100MM federal grant-funded technology jobs training initiative called
TechHire
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The euro continued its decline on Tuesday, hitting a new
12-year low against the dollar, as Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher
reiterated that the U.S. should promptly end its easy monetary policy and press
ahead with an interest rate increase
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China's consumer inflation accelerated in February, rebounding
from a five-year low in January, but factory prices remained entrenched in
deflation, signaling a favorable environment for further easing from the government
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A former translator for ISIS said that Western hostages were
made compliant prior to their beheadings with the use of mock executions
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The CIA has been working to break Apple's security on iPhones
and iPads, even before the devices were sold to the public
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The Secret Service is training to knock dangerous drones out
of the sky
Other:
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit behind the free
online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has announced it’s suing the U.S. National
Security Agency and Department of Justice over the “large-scale search and
seizure of internet communications”
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See below for an article on how Ellen Pao owned the room in Ellen
Pao vs. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Silicon Valley’s most
high-profile gender discrimination suit in memory
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10 people were killed when two helicopters collided in a
remote part of Argentina while filming a French reality TV show
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San Simon, The Simpsons co-creator, died at age 59 – he spent
the rest of his life trying to give away his entire fortune – think: at least
$100MM – to causes he loved. Like animal foundations, including his own
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You need to make $142,000 a year to buy a typical house in San
Francisco
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