
Tech
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Tribeca Shortlist Graduates to Grownup Service, Lets You Watch Films on Your iPhone
By Joan E. Solsman | December 17, 2015 @ 6:48 AMThe 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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 16, 2015 @ 2:31 PMThe 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
By Beatrice Verhoeven | December 16, 2015 @ 8:21 AMDonald 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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 16, 2015 @ 6:55 AMAvegant’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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 14, 2015 @ 7:45 AMAsset 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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 14, 2015 @ 6:23 AMVideo 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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 11, 2015 @ 11:52 AMThe 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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 11, 2015 @ 6:49 AMThe 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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 10, 2015 @ 6:30 AMThe 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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 9, 2015 @ 8:44 AMAfter 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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 9, 2015 @ 6:59 AMWidely 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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 8, 2015 @ 4:26 PMDespite 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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 8, 2015 @ 9:00 AMThe 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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 8, 2015 @ 7:40 AMThe 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
By Joan E. Solsman | December 8, 2015 @ 7:13 AMOnline retail giant Amazon launches a program that lets networks like Showtime and Starz sell subscriptions to their online video services to Prime members.