Entertainment:
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Vessel, the new online video subscription service built by
some of the early team at Hulu, is launching to the public today
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Amazon announced that its streaming media players Amazon Fire
TV and Fire TV stick will be soon receiving a software update that will deliver
a series of new features, including support for expandable USB storage and
wireless Bluetooth headphones
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Opening up a new door for the sports-media industry, the NFL
has announced it would test placing one football game this season on a national
digital platform and not on national television, as a trial effort to
understand the market for digital rights
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After a review of the James Bond bootleg from producer Adi
Shankar, Google/YouTube removed the copyright strike against him and is
allowing the parody directed by Tyler Gibb to stand
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This year’s Cannes Film Festival poster will pay tribute to
actress Ingrid Bergman in honor of the centenary of her birth
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Paramount Pictures is dismantling its microbudget film branch
Insurge Pictures, reducing it from a separate division although it intends to
keep the name for use as a label on future genre pictures
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Apple TV has added TED Talks, Tastemade, and Young Hollywood
to its set-top box
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Online artist management company ReverbNation today announced
the first initiative behind its artist incubator, CONNECT
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As of this morning, most of Taylor Swift's albums (save 1989)
are now streaming on TIDAL, the music streaming service Jay Z recently
purchased via S. Carter Enterprises after putting in a $56.2MM bid
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Netflix seen as the ‘clear winner’ in TV unbundling despite
Apple’s entry - per an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald
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In its first forecast for worldwide advertising expenditure in
2016, global media network Carat is predicting a big upswing in digital media
spending, even when faced with negative economic headwinds
Tech:
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See below for an article on all the ways the new Apple TV will
dominate your living room
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See below for an interesting article on how Facebook and
Instagram are making us happier
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Microsoft is launching Azure App Service today, a new
cloud-based service that gives developers a single service for building mobile
and web apps, combined with tools for automating business processes across
cloud services, and a new service for building and consuming APIs
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Twitter has unveiled a new “quality filter” that lets verified
users weed out problematic tweets from their notifications – in an effort to
combat cyber bullying
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Joyent today announced the launch of Triton, its new container
infrastructure for making Docker deployments in on-premise clouds and on its
own cloud architecture easier
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Tesla’s pure electric SUV is nearing launch and there is
apparently at least one cruising around California
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Apple has secured a new patent (via AppleInsider) for a
special three sensor camera designed for thin, wireless devices like the iPhone
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After a few months of beta testing, Reddit has officially
launched embeddable comments
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Instagram announced the debut of a new application called
Layout, the company’s next standalone creation tool outside of its flagship
photo-sharing application
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Twitch forcing all of its users to change their passwords due
to a security breach
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Twitter is bringing the ability to tag specific locations to
Tweets via official apps and the web, through a partnership with Foursquare
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Last week, Pinterest made a huge change that will allow its
employees to collect equity on terms more favorable to them
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Facebook is testing a voice-calling app that can screen your
calls and show you information about who is calling
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Twitter is testing autoplay videos in user timelines, meaning
you may no longer need to click a play button in order to see what people are
sharing
Deals:
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Accel announced a new $305MM fund
dedicated to India
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Slack is talking to investors for
yet another round, this time at a valuation of around $2.5-2.6B
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RiteTag acquires ScrapeLogo to
optimize beyond the hashtag
Business:
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Oil prices dropped again this morning following an overnight
report which showed Saudi production close to an all-time high and data that
showed China's factory sector falling to an 11-month low
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eBay, which is spinning off its PayPal division later this
year, plans to pay each of the two new companies' chief executive officers $14MM
in total compensation after the split
Exec Moves:
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Oyster, a Netflix-style service for
e-books, has brought on its first chief financial officer, Jeannie Mun
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Morgan Stanley’s CFO, Ruth Porat, is
leaving to become Google’s new CFO
Startups:
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Andreessen Horowitz invested $20MM
in the startup Improbable to build massive simulated game worlds
Government:
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Israel spied on private talks the U.S. held with Iran on
nuclear weapons, and gave information to members of Congress in order to gain
support against the deal
Other:
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An Airbus 320 carrying 144 passengers flying from Barcelona,
Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, crashed in the alps of southern France on
Tuesday morning
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Islamic State has recruited at least 400 children in Syria in
the past three months and given these so-called "Cubs of the
Caliphate" military training and hardline indoctrination
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Angelina Jolie said Tuesday that she underwent preventative
surgery to have her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed last week after doctors
detected early signs of cancer
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