Entertainment:
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Vivendi confirmed that the hedge fund P. Schoenfeld Asset
Management called for a sale of the music company, but said it had no intention
of doing so
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See below for an article on media tech and venture capital
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See below for an article on how music labels are trying to kill
off Spotify’s unlimited free streaming
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Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu said last
week that it has gained the exclusive streaming video-on-demand rights to the
show “Empire,” in a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution
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Just two weeks short of its Easter weekend release, many
industry estimates are projecting Universal’s “Furious 7” with a $115MM opening
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Two new bills to increase New Mexico's film tax incentives
have sailed through the state Legislature
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Discovery Communications has walked away from the auction for
Australia's Ten Network, sources confirmed
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WWE and NBCU have partnered to get more revenue from
advertising
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Netflix launched in Australia and New Zealand
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The Ultra Music Festival has named Twitch, the social video
platform and game-streaming giant, as its official broadcast partner
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An attorney for Adnan Syed, the subject of popular podcast
"Serial," argues that trial attorney Christina Gutierrez's failure to
interview a possible alibi witness was an error of "such a fundamental
nature" that it requires a new trial to resolve
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The latest trailer for “Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation”
dives a little bit further into agent Ethan Hunt's battle with the villainous
organization known as the Syndicate
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The pay-TV market in North America, which already has new
over-the-top (OTT) services hanging over it menacingly, looks likely to have
peaked in 2013, says Digital TV Research
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Yomvi, Canal+'s streaming and video-on-demand (VOD) platform,
has launched on Sony's PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4
Tech:
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Please see below for an interesting analysis on the new Apple
TV
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Stripe is today unveiling a new product designed to help
marketplaces like Lyft or Kickstarter scale internationally, by offering a
suite of tools that allow businesses like these to accept payments from
anywhere in the world
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Square is expanding its Cash product to allow businesses to
accept payments
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India is Uber’s second largest market worldwide behind only
the U.S., and the company is today bolstering its position in the Asian country
after agreeing to an alliance with media firm Times Internet
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Yesterday afternoon, the legal team representing venture
capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers rested its case in the Ellen
Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins trial, bringing the fourth full week in the courtroom
to a close
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Meerkat has closed on a $12MM Series B led by Greylock at a
$40MM valuation
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Facebook open sources Augmented Traffic Control, a Wi-Fi tool
for simulating 2G, Edge, 3G, and LTE networks
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Fans of SpaceX, the Los Angeles area space flight company led
by Elon Musk, will have a field day with a giant trove of photographs from the company,
which SpaceX made free to the public late Friday
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The retirement accounts of millions of Americans have long
contained shares of stalwart companies like General Electric, Ford and
Coca-Cola - today, they are likely to include riskier private stocks from
Silicon Valley start-ups like Uber, Airbnb and Pinterest
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After investing $5M in Lyft last year at an $850MM valuation,
GSV Capital has invested another $2.5MM in the ride-sharing platform/Uber
archrival through its latest funding round, which valued the company at $2.5B
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See below for the 5 future-focused tech trends of SXSW
Interactive
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Samsung is bundling Microsoft's Office apps on some Android
tablets
Deals:
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Edocr has been acquired by Accusoft,
which is known as a venerable player in the OEM software business for documents
o http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/23/accusoft-acquires-document-sharing-platform-edocr-in-all-cash-deal/
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Rakuten has acquired Deep Forest to
bolster its mobile marketing operations
Business:
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In the latest twist to the showdown between Argentina and
Citigroup, a U.S. federal court has agreed to allow Citi to make interest
payments to investors holding $2.3B of Argentine bonds at the end of this month
and on June 30
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Benjamin Lawsky, New York state's financial services
regulator, has added himself to the regulators investigating Deutsche Bank for
the alleged rigging of Libor
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China could make billions of dollars from taxing gains made by
employees of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group who are free to sell their shares
for the first time since its IPO
Exec Moves:
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Gearing up for the spinoff of PayPal
from eBay later this year, eBay today added two new people to its board, with
one of them having an interesting link to some of eBay’s earlier corporate
history – Tony Bates and Gail McGovern
Startups:
Government:
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When Chelsea Clinton’s husband, Marc Mezvinsky, co-founded an
investment firm, Clinton family friends took an interest, illustrating how
politics, family and finance can intersect
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European equities are heading south as investors watch a
meeting between the leaders of Greece and Germany, beginning a week that may
prove decisive for Greece's future in the euro zone
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Senator Ted Cruz announced his bid for the Republican
presidential nomination Monday
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