Entertainment:
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DVR maker TiVo announced this morning that its purchase of
assets from Aereo – the innovative but ultimately doomed internet TV streaming
startup – has been approved by a U.S. Bankruptcy Court
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Star Wars has a new, official standalone spin-off film coming
— Rogue One, starring Felicity Jones and written by Rian Johnson – and is
slated to open December 16, 2016
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See below for an interesting op-ed on the rise of social media
celebs and demise of Hollywood celebs
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Disney thrilled shareholders at its annual meeting yesterday
with movie news about some of its most valuable properties
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Ben Queen, the creator, executive producer and showrunner of A
To Z, has signed an overall deal with Warner Bros. TV
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President Obama was a guest on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!
and read “Mean Tweets”
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Andy Samberg was considered an odds-on favorite to host the
67th Primetime Emmy Awards, which will air September 20 on Fox
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New Line Cinema will distribute Batkid Begins: The Wish
Heard Around the World, which stars and will be produced by Julia Roberts
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Bob Iger said that he will “absolutely prohibit” depiction of
smoking in Disney films with a PG-13 rating or below, unless they involve an
historical figure who smoked
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Avengers: Age of Ultron has passed censorship in China, with the hotly anticipated
Marvel tentpole starring Robert Downey Jr. set to be released in the world's
second-biggest film market on May 12, after its U.S. bow on May 1
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Pluto TV, a startup that curates web-video content into
TV-like channels, has reached distribution agreements with AOL and Endemol
Beyond USA
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Disney’s live-action “Cinderella” is looking like it will be
the belle of the box office, launching with an impressive $2.3MM at Thursday
night preview showings in the U.S.
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Disney officially announced plans to produce a sequel to
“Frozen”
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Kanye West finally hits the top 10 of the Social 50 chart --
rising 36-6 -- thanks to a media blitz during the tracking week which included
revealing the name of his upcoming album: So Help Me God
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http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6501992/kanye-west-hits-social-50-charts-top-10-for-first-time
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As they prepare for the World Cup in 2022, Leading Arabic
networks Qatar TV and its sister channel Al Kass Sports have tapped Elemental
Technologies to process and deliver video for global distribution
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Warner TV is refreshing its branding in Asia on 15 March as it
brings a slate of new content to the region, some shows airing just 12 hours
after they premier in the US
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Hong Kong entertainment group PCCW Media is to acquire a
majority stake in Vuclip, a mobile video-on-demand service platform, which
currently operates in six countries in Asia and the Middle East
Tech:
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Facebook is building drones and satellites that can stream the
internet from the skies, Mark Zuckerberg says his company is not threatening
the livelihoods of the big telecom companies that deliver the internet in more
prosaic ways
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Apple announced new battery technology that could have major
implications for how long all future Apple products last between charges—including
your next iPhone
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See below for articles on the Alibaba and Snapchat deal
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Artiphon Instrument 1 is a music device which looks like a
digitized guitar neck, but can produce music that sounds like a guitar, or a
violin, or a piano, or a drum machine…or a synthesizer, or a ukulele, and so
on, all at once, due to a pressure-sensitive interface that can control
software instruments via MIDI
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The Asus Republic of Gamers G501 should help bring gaming
portability to a whole new level, thanks to an Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M graphics
card, Intel Core i7 processor and 15.6-inch 4K display
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Google is shutting down Google Code Project Hosting
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Swarm has today launched private messaging within its
location-based social network, ditching options to hop out of the app for a
call, text message or a Facebook message
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Tinder Plus also brings a new “right swipe limiter” into the
mix, as users who swipe right too much or too often in a 12 hour period will
run out
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Social network Creativ has launched a new print magazine
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WhatsApp hits 1 billion installs on Android, the second
non-Google app to do so
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TicketManager, the online ticket management service led by
Tony Knopp, has signed on with the American Airlines Center in Dallas in a
sponsorship deal
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Microsoft is working on an advanced version of its competitor
to Apple's Siri, using research from an artificial intelligence project called
"Einstein" – and it is called Cortana
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Samsung Electronics will use more premium materials in mobile
devices to win customers and offer a wider range of connected devices after
being recently dethroned by Apple as global smartphone sales leader
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Snapchat’s Discover platform is one of the hottest properties
in media. That’s why Snapchat and its publishing partners are asking for very
high prices for ads that run on Discover — and why marketers are paying them
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Three years after getting into the pay TV business, Google now
has more than 10 percent of the market in the first metro area it targeted
o
http://recode.net/2015/03/12/googles-pay-tv-push-is-slow-googles-broadband-push-is-a-question-mark/
Deals:
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Photobucket is today announcing the
acquisition Lasso, a private photo-sharing and chat app that was designed to
simplify the challenges around requesting photos from family and friends
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Amazon is taking another step into
the Internet of Things and has acquired 2lemetry, a startup based out of Denver
that has developed an enterprise-focused platform to track and manage IP-enabled
machines and other connected devices
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Charter Communications shares shot
up 5.9% to a 52-week high this afternoon after Bloomberg reported that it’s in
talks to buy Bright House Networks, a cable company owned by Si Newhouse’s
Advance Publications
Business:
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The Gates Foundation is deploying funds and influence into
for-profit companies with bright ideas, instead of focusing only on grants to
nonprofits
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On Thursday, that trail led to Commerzbank of Germany, which
agreed to pay nearly $1.5B and dismiss some of its employees to resolve an
array of charges in the United States
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Oil prices might have stabilized only temporarily because the
global oil glut is worsening and U.S. production shows no sign of slowing, the
International Energy Agency said
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Tokyo stocks surged through the 19,000 level today, tracking a
positive lead from Wall Street to record their highest close since April 2000
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Iceland has dropped its bid to join the European Union,
withdrawing its application which was submitted six years ago
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The FBI and prosecutors within the Manhattan U.S. attorney's
office are "probing potential manipulation" of Herbalife shares, and
have interviewed people hired by Bill Ackman
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RadioShack warns investors its stock should trade at zero
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IBM is considering adopting the underlying technology behind
bitcoin, known as the “blockchain,” to create a digital cash and payment system
for major currencies, according to a person familiar with the matter
Exec Moves:
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Legendary Entertainment has named
Clint Kisker its EVP Business Development, a role that will see the film
industry finance veteran lead the company’s acquisition and corporate
development activities aimed at building out the company’s interests in digital
media, virtual and augmented reality content, and sports
Retail:
Startups:
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Highfive, a B2B technology company
reimagining video and conference calls, raised $32MM in its Series B
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Spark Gift is a service that lets
people give the gift of stocks or exchange-traded funds via email in
denominations as low as $20
Government:
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It's been over a week since the Russian president made his
last public appearance, prompting Muscovites and the world to wonder what's
become of him. Hashtags such as #WhereisPutin and #ПутинУмер, which translates
to "Putin's dead," are trending
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President Obama said there is "no excuse for criminal
acts" in Ferguson, Missouri, and that he wants to see law enforcement and
protesters work together following the shooting of two police officers
Other:
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Bob Philpott, a longtime Hollywood business manager whose
clients included Jerry Bruckheimer, Brian Grazer and Dick Wolf, died yesterday
in Los Angeles of complications from a recent stroke
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According to an upcoming Steve Jobs biography, Apple CEO Tim
Cook once offered a sick Steve Jobs—who suffered from a side effect of cancer
called ascites—a portion of his liver, but Jobs turned him down
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