Entertainment:
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Showtime and HBO are charging $90 for the Mayweather-Pacquiao
fight
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Digital Domain Holdings and Immersive Media are partnering in
a joint venture called IM360 to create hardware, software and actual shows for
the intriguing new world of virtual-reality entertainment, 3-D video that
surrounds a viewer and provides a completely enveloping visual experience
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http://deadline.com/2015/04/digital-domain-immersive-media-joint-venture-virtual-reality-1201403236/
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“Furious 7” turbo-charged theaters last night — including
nearly all 365 Imax screens — to push the total prize money for Universal
Pictures to $15.8MM at 3,069 theaters
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http://deadline.com/2015/04/furious-7-supercharges-weekend-with-15-8m-thursday-preview-1201403822/
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Less than 24 hours after reports were leaked to the press that
Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell have completed a top-secret TV movie for
Lifetime, the two have announced that they were not going forward with the
project
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CAA filed a multi-claim complaint today against UTA and former
CAA agents Greg Cavic and Greg McKnight, asking restraining orders stopping any
services to those new clients plus a variety of damages
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Netflix said today that “House of Cards” will be back for a
fourth season in 2016
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Dish Network, the No. 2 satellite TV service in the U.S.,
announced that DishWorld, its live-streaming, multi-language TV service
launched in 2012, will be rebranded “Sling International.”
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HBO, ahead of the premiere of season two of tech-startup spoof
“Silicon Valley,” is teaming with Amazon’s Twitch videogame-casting service for
a promo event that will include a free stream of the first season’s pilot
episode
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Brazilian banking giant Bradesco has announced a partnership
with Universal Music Group to create a new streaming music service exclusively
for its credit card holders
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See below for 15 new trailers that were released this week – Spectre,
Mad Max, Fantastic Four and more
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A “Groundhog Day” musical will hit Broadway in 2017
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European Union antitrust regulators are investigating Apple’s
deals with record labels and online music streaming services to see if it is
blocking rivals’ access to its planned music streaming platform
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Tapping into a growing trend, media and technology company
BroadbandTV (BBTV) has signed an exclusive partnership with YouTube analytics
platform Social Blade.
Tech:
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HiSmart, a new bag from Chinese design company Lepow, is built
around that idea of streamlining interactions – this could be more useful than
a smartwatch
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Reedsy just launched author profiles on its website where
writers can collect and showcase their work on a single page
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Publisher HarperCollins is trying to go its own way as its
contract with Amazon lapses this year
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Nebula, makers of an OpenStack appliance designed to simplify
the complexities of installing an OpenStack instance, shut its doors yesterday
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http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/02/openstack-market-consolidation-continues-as-nebula-shuts-its-doors/
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Today, Vine released a slew of updates to Window Phone users
including new editing functions, messaging capabilities, and loop counts
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Oracle’s new ID Graph weaves together offline data from its
recent acquisition, Datalogix, and from other sources to better solve the
marketer’s dilemma of tracking the same user across devices and communication
channels
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Samsung Electronics Co. will manufacture the main chip in
Apple Inc.’s next iPhone model, regaining a customer previously lost to Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
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BuzzFeed's founder used to write Marxist theory and it
explains BuzzFeed perfectly
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http://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5730762/buzzfeeds-founder-used-to-write-marxist-theory-and-it-explains
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IBM has uncovered a sophisticated fraud scheme run by a
well-funded Eastern European gang of cyber criminals that uses a combination of
phishing, malware and phone calls that the technology company says has netted
more than $1M from large and medium-sized U.S. companies
Deals:
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Lux Capital plans to announce that
it has closed its latest investment fund at $350MM to invest in science
start-ups
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Twitter has acquired TenXer, a
software startup that helps companies manage their engineering projects
Business:
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Tesla has reported its best ever quarter, shipping 10,030 cars
in Q1 2015, representing a 55% increase on the same period last year
·
San Diego-based Qualcomm said Thursday that it is doubling the
size of its QPrize annual investment funding competition, and will now award
$250,000 in convertible note financing to regional winners, with an additional
$250,000 to grand prize winners
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Secret contracts, covert real-estate deals, scurrying around
after nightfall to avoid detection – see below for how far big-bank brokers are
prepared to go when they plan to go independent
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Bill Ackman, Dan Loeb and Barry Rosenstein — all of whom
reported full first-quarter numbers this week — are outpacing the broader stock
indexes
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The New York Times is launching an unexpectedly large 32-page
Men's Style section today
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Warren Buffett's affordable home-building empire “Clayton
Homes” may not be as pure as PR would suggest
·
U.S. employers sharply slowed their hiring in March to the
weakest pace in more than a year, the latest sign that the economy stumbled in
early 2015 - unemployment was flat at 5.5%
o http://www.wsj.com/articles/jobs-report-u-s-adds-126-000-jobs-1428064391?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
Exec Moves:
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Michael De Luca has left Sony and is
headed to Universal Pictures, where he is expected to sign a new producing deal
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A list of moves and shakes across
the music business, including Madison Square Garden, ASCAP, Def Jam, Stingray
and more
Startups:
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Online ticket sales startup SeatGeek
has raised $62MM in Series C funding
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On-demand shipping startup Shyp is
raising around $50MM at a valuation of $250MM
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Bushytail Health is a new app that
will use gambling’s natural appeal to help diabetics––and possibly other
chronic-disease patients––manage their health issues
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Koko, an upcoming app based on an
MIT experiment, is designed to build the world's first social network for
dealing with depression
Government:
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Mr. Emanuel’s challenger, Jesús Garcia, is raising questions
about the Democratic Chicago mayor’s top supporter, Kenneth Griffin, a
Reagan-Republican billionaire
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Iranians celebrated after negotiators reached a framework for
a nuclear accord
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Friday
that any final agreement with Iran concerning its nuclear program must include
"a clear and unambiguous Iranian commitment of Israel's right to exist”
Other:
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An autonomous car drove across country
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California oil producers used 214 acre-feet of water,
equivalent to nearly 70 million gallons, in the process of fracking for oil and
gas in the state last year, less than previously projected
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Glenn Beck is going to launch a women’s fashion line
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On his website Thursday, George R.R. Martin released a chapter
from the book “Winds of Winter”
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