Tech
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Tribeca Shortlist Graduates to Grownup Service, Lets You Watch Films on Your iPhone
The online subscription streaming service from Tribeca Enterprises and Lionsgate expands beyond niche iPad viewing
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Pandora Ordered to Pay Labels Higher Royalty Rate
The recording industry’s payments from Pandora, the Internet’s biggest streaming music service, are set to climb on a per-stream basis for the next five years
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Lamar Odom, Caitlyn Jenner, Ronda Rousey Top 2015 Google Searches
Donald Trump, Ruby Rose, Charlie Sheen and Rachel Dolezal are also among most popular search terms
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Avegant, a Start-up That Shoots Movies Into Your Eyeballs, to Roll Out Headsets Next Month
Avegant’s Glyph headset should start to arrive for its first customers — people who backed the company on Kickstarter — near the end of January
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Yahoo Shareholder Wants CEO Marissa Mayer Ousted, Her Traces Erased
Asset manager SpringOwl suggests reviving Yahoo’s old logo and a high-profile San Francisco billboard to ”send a message that the era of Marissa Mayer is now over“
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Taylor Swift to Stream World Tour Blowout on Apple Music
Video from the superstar’s world tour will feature appearances by Justin Timberlake, Selena Gomez, Mick Jagger and others, in an exclusive to the subscription-only music service launched by Apple earlier this year
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Why Disney Doubled Down on Vice Media
The edgy digital publisher doesn’t look at first like a logical roommate for Mickey
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Alibaba to Buy South China Morning Post
The internet giant deepens its reach into media with a deal to buy the South China Morning Post, an influential English-language daily newspaper.
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‘Serial’ Season 2 Debuts, Expands to Streams on Pandora
The record-breaking podcast returns, playing a slightly different tune: It takes on a high-profile Bowe Bergdahl case and runs on a music service to reach listeners
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Sony Pictures’ Michael Lynton: Emails Are Probably Imprudent Again
After last year’s hack splashed the studio’s internal emails across the internet, CEO is ”sure people are saying things probably they shouldn’t“
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Apple ‘Mixed’ Reality Could Replace iPhone, Analyst Says
Widely followed Apple analyst Gene Munster says the gadget giant has hired more virtual- and augmented-reality personnel than even Oculus parent Facebook
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‘Krampus’ in Virtual Reality? Even Legendary’s Thomas Tull Says That’s Scary
Despite investing in VR start-ups like Oculus, CEO says the ”least compelling“ strategy is to funnel movies and TV shows into a headset
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Rachel Levin, Bethany Mota Rank as Top Social Media Stars Too Young to Drink
The online beauty gurus score the highest engagement among social influencers under 21, trumping big broadcast names like Stephen Colbert, according to a Zefr metric
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MGM Leads $18.2 Million Investment in Video Start-Up Interlude
The studio’s funding of Interlude, a company leading the development of interactive online video, follows their partnership to create a series based hacker film classic ”WarGames“
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Amazon Adds Showtime, Starz Offering to Prime Subscribers
Online retail giant Amazon launches a program that lets networks like Showtime and Starz sell subscriptions to their online video services to Prime members.
