Entertainment:
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See below for an interesting article on Pixar
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Bono and Ashton Kutcher are going to be special advisors to
TPG
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Amazon’s X-Ray is a great Kindle feature, providing a healthy
heaping of context on demand about things like plot, characters, authors and
more - now, it can also offer context for movies and TV shows, on Fire TV and
Fire TV Stick devices
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Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Twitter has been
contacting celebrities who use Meerkat, trying to convince them Meerkat is
dying and that they should use Periscope instead
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During last night’s premier of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” many
Sling TV subscribers were unable to load the app on their Roku devices
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The very night before “Game Of Thrones” Season 5 was set to
premiere, the first four episodes of the season have been leaked simultaneously
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PepsiCo has won exclusive sponsorship rights for the National
Basketball Association, ending Coca-Cola's 30-year run as the league's official
sponsor
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Under a new partnership with giants Shanghai Media Group and
China Media Capital, Fremantle Media will dig in further, creating and
developing content earmarked for the Middle Kingdom and destined for SMG’s
Dragon TV and BesTV platforms
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http://deadline.com/2015/04/fremantlemedia-joint-venture-china-media-capital-bestv-miptv-1201408921/
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SAG-AFTRA has reached a tentative agreement on terms for a new
Corporate/Educational & Non-Broadcast Contract
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For the first time in the history of the Cannes Film Festival,
a female director will open the festivities. Emmanuelle Bercot's “La Tete Haute”
will kick off the 68th edition on May 13
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In only its second weekend, Universal's “Furious 7” hit
$800.5MMat the worldwide box office in another victorious lap for the final
film from the late Paul Walker and already passing up the entire global run of “Fast
and Furious 6”
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Warner Bros. has zeroed in on Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne for
the lead role for Harry Potter spinoff “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”
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Crystal Amber, an activist U.K. investment fund that once
owned more than a quarter of Pinewood Studios and publicly tried to oust its
chairman, Michael Grade, has once again acquired a stake in the company and is
looking to push for higher financial returns
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Time Warner and Viacom are in talks with select advertisers
that would have the sponsors pay for video ads based on measures very different
from the industry’s current standard, Nielsen ratings. The deals would center
not on an average of how many people actually saw the commercials — as is the
current practice — but rather on how the ads affect consumer behavior or how
often consumers interact with the pitches
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Watchup, a Tribune Media-backed startup with a service that
personalized newscasts to Internet-video devices, has expanded its reach to
about 80% of the local markets in the U.S. through deals with Meredith, E.W.
Scripps Co. and three other TV broadcast groups
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Mumford & Sons have gotten themselves entangled in a
little schoolyard beef with Jay Z's recently launched streaming service Tidal -
Tidal is owned by big-name musicians like Rihanna, Kanye West, Madonna,
Beyoncé, and Jack White, who, incidentally, are all very rich, and the Mumford
boys are not cool with that
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In a move said to be the first of its kind for a major
network, the Disney/ABC Television Group of networks is moving its linear
broadcast operations to an Imagine Communications IP cloud architecture
Tech:
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Garmin’s VIRB line of action cameras got a big refresh this
morning with the introduction of the new X and XE models, which collect data
from a variety of sensors to create graphical overlays to show just how awesome
your mountain-climbing trip really was
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http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/13/garmins-new-virb-action-cameras-capture-data-from-your-experiences/
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Windows Phone users were understandably interested in the new
code, as it represents Microsoft’s most complete vision to date of how Windows
10 — the company’s attempt at a universal platform — will update their handsets
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Starting April 16, Twitch and Procter & Gamble will launch
“The Old Spice Nature Adventure,” putting a guy in the woods with a bunch of
hidden booby traps and silly gags for three days and letting Twitch users
control him via commands in chat
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Snapchat wants to usurp Instagram as they way to share
Coachella Music Festival adventure - it revealed a new style of Geofilters that
change throughout the day to tell friends what they’re looking at
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Defying its critics and building on the success of players
like Wealthfront and Betterment, Aspiration, the new money management firm
launched by Andrei Cherny, is off to a roaring start
o
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/10/aspirations-growth-shows-the-appetite-for-more-financial-services/
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Hewlett-Packard is introducing a series of mobile workstations
and professional displays that target artists, creative professionals, and
developers - the aim is to make them more productive with well-designed gadgets
that feel as though they could have created them themselves
o
DataSift, the social data API and analytics firm which is
heavily backed by LA's Upfront Ventures, has been hit by a major change by
Twitter, which is totally cutting off access to its data to DataSift
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Los Angeles-based membership airline Surf Air is planning an
expansion into four new cities, saying over the weekend that it will add Santa
Rosa, Monterey, Sacramento, and Palm Springs to its routes
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The European Commission will decide "very soon"
whether to issue antitrust charges against Google, its digital commissioner
said on Sunday, following five years of investigating whether the Internet
giant abused its dominance of the European search-engine market
o
http://seekingalpha.com/news/2421706-are-formal-charges-in-googles-antitrust-case-on-the-way?ifp=0
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China's prolific Internet company Tencent has entered the
stratosphere, reaching a $200B market capitalization in Hong Kong-based trading
last night
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SpaceX is hoping that the second time is the charm: the
privately held company will attempt to land a booster rocket on a drone ship
later Monday, with an eye toward saving money—and making history—by deploying
fully reusable rockets to propel cargo ships bound for the international space
station
Deals:
Business:
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Chief MarTec: CMOs are ‘some of the most impressive execs in
the history of business’
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As Blackstone’s top executives fan out across the globe,
pitching their services at elite gatherings of investors, they invariably tell
the crowd: Hope you guys like this hotel, because we own it
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China's exports surprisingly tumbled in March while import
shipments fell at their sharpest rate since the global financial crisis,
setting a poor precursor to the country's closely-watched Q1 GDP figure due on
Wednesday
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Qualcomm is now under pressure from activist investor Jana
Partners to consider a breakup and other options to boost its sagging stock
price
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Deutsche Bank AG is close to resolving a multi-year probe by
U.S. and U.K. authorities into interest-rate manipulation, with a U.K.
subsidiary expected to plead guilty
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Just as TPG’s venture capital king Bill McGlashan’s star is
rising, a former employee has accused him of defrauding investors and the firm
of violating the federal whistle-blower law
Exec Moves:
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SpectreVision, the company started
by Daniel Noah, Josh Walker and Elijah Wood (Lord Of The Rings trilogy), has
hired a new Chief Operating Officer from NBCUniversal’s Chiller, where she
served as Senior Director, Program Strategy
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Longtime Disney/ABC Television Group
digital chief Albert Cheng is leaving the company
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Yahoo has lost one of its most
experienced execs, Mike Kerns, as others move around, jockeying as new
configurations of power form at the troubled Internet giant
Startups:
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Now armed with $1MM in seed funding
from DeNA and 500 Startups, Zeemi.tv is betting that its live-streaming video
platform will prove just as popular in the country as other social networks.
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Zomato, an online and mobile
restaurant search & discovery service providing in-depth information for
over 1mn restaurants in 22 countries, raised $50MM in its Series F
Government:
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Marco Rubio has been telling donors that he is running for
president
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As the U.S. job market improves, the risk is receding that an
unexpected setback could derail the recovery once the Federal Reserve raises
interest rates, San Francisco Fed President John Williams told Reuters in an
interview late on Friday
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China has rejected Taiwan's bid to become a founding member of
the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank under the name "Chinese
Taipei," but said the island would be welcome to apply again as an
ordinary member in the future
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Hilary Clinton is officially running for president
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http://deadline.com/2015/04/hillary-clinton-announces-presidential-candidacy-2016-video-1201408081/
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Vladimir Putin issued a decree Mondauy canceling a ban on the
delivery of Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, effectively reneging
on Moscow’s compliance with a UN Security Council resolution to that effect as
the U.S. and five other world powers finish a nuclear deal with Tehran
Other:
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Over the next six months, LA will install 100 new signs around
downtown to test a design that condenses a hodgepodge of regulations into one
easy-to-read grid
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The ever-provocative Madonna kissed 28-year-old Drake, a man
exactly half her age, onstage at Coachella on Sunday night during his
headlining set
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Metallica sued Napster 15 years ago today
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