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Month: September 2015
How to email Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, or Richard Branson – Fortune
News Corp. closes sale of Amplify education businesses – News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWS) | Seeking Alpha#email_link#email_link
News Corp. closes sale of Amplify education businesses
News Corp. (NWS +3.1%, NWSA +2.9%) says it’s closed on a planned sale of its Amplify digital education businesses, to a management team backed by private investors. Financial terms were undisclosed,
Condé Nast Colonizes Lower Manhattan – The New York Times
Condé Nast Colonizes Lower Manhattan
It seemed like a strange fit — the world’s most glamorous media company in windswept, workaday Lower Manhattan. But its employees are adjusting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/fashion/conde-nast-one-world-trade-center.html?ref=business
News Corp. fires 40% of digital-education employees – News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWS) | Seeking Alpha#email_link#email_link
News Corp. fires 40% of digital-education employees
News Corp. (NWS +3.1%, NWSA +2.9%) has fired about 40% of staff at its Amplify digital education unit, suggesting the wind-down is progressing. The company had said in August it’s in the "final p
‘The Ring’ Sequel Release Date Pushed Back | Variety
‘The Ring’ Sequel Pushed Back to 2016 (EXCLUSIVE)
"The Ring" sequel "Rings" is getting a new release date. Paramount Pictures is pushing back the third film in the horror series from its Nov. 13 debut. It will now launch in 2016, most likely in th…
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/the-ring-sequel-release-date-rings-1201605063/
Google, Microsoft end phone/Xbox patent battle, agree to cooperate – Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | Seeking Alpha#email_link
Google, Microsoft end phone/Xbox patent battle, agree to cooperate
Google (GOOG, GOOGL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) have ended a long-running patent spat involving about 20 suits in the U.S. and Germany. Financial terms are confidential.Microsoft, which collects roya
Sean Atkins Is New President of MTV | Variety
MTV Names Sean Atkins New President
Sean Atkins, a digital-media executive from Discovery Communications, has been named the new president of MTV, taking over from the departing Stephen Friedman. Atkins will report to Doug Herzog, p…
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/mtv-sean-atkins-president-1201606678/
Microsoft Store Accidentally Lists New Lumia 950 Flagships Online | Re/code
ESPN Reportedly Plans to Pare ‘SportsCenter,’ Increase Digital Focus – NBC News
ESPN Reportedly Plans to Pare ‘SportsCenter,’ Increase Digital Focus
TV sports leader ESPN reportedly is planning cuts to its signature "SportsCenter" show in light of fans’ growing appetite for digital news.
Sources: Jack Dorsey to Be Named Permanent Twitter CEO | Re/code
Sources: Jack Dorsey to Be Named Permanent Twitter CEO
The announcement could come as early as tomorrow.
http://recode.net/2015/09/30/sources-jack-dorsey-to-be-named-permanent-twitter-ceo/
NHL affirms it will get hefty fees from potential expansion teams – LA Times
NHL affirms it will get hefty fees from potential expansion teams
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman on Tuesday reaffirmed that the fee for a potential expansion franchise will be half a billion dollars but said the process of evaluating applications from Quebec City and Las Vegas has no deadline for a resolution.
MTV President Stephen Friedman Exits – Hollywood Reporter
MTV President Stephen Friedman Exits
Longtime MTV executive Stephen Friedman is exiting the Viacom-owned network.
Hollywood’s USS Hillary Headed for an Iceberg? Political Bundlers Jump Ship to Biden
TiVo Introduces BOLT, Making Ad-Skipping Even Easier – Videonuze
Jack Dorsey New Twitter CEO, Announcement As Early As Tomorrow | Variety
Twitter to Make Jack Dorsey Permanent CEO As Early As Thursday (Report)
The inevitable is finally happening: Twitter is going to announce that Jack Dorsey will once again become permanent CEO of the company, according to a Recode report. The announcement could come as …
YouTube had a new top channel in August: WWE wrestling | Technology | The Guardian
YouTube had a new top channel in August:WWE wrestling
Body slamming US stars beat nursery-rhymes channel Little Baby Bum with 456.4m views of their videos, boosted by Summerslam 2015
How Much Do You Bring to the Table, Content Human? – The Awl
How Much Do You Bring to the Table, Content Human?
The German publisher Axel Springer DE is purchasing 88 percent of Henry Blodget’s extremely popular travel blog, Business Insider, for 343 million dollars in cash; its stake is valued at 390 million dollars. (The total value of the company is …
http://www.theawl.com/2015/09/how-much-do-you-bring-to-the-table-content-human
New TiVo DVR Will Skip Through Entire Commercial Break
Swiss TV Station Replaces Cameras with iPhones and Selfie Sticks
Swiss TV Station Replaces Cameras with iPhones and Selfie Sticks
iPhones may not be very good at photographing lunar eclipses, but apparently they’re just fine for television news broadcasts. A local TV news station in S
http://petapixel.com/2015/09/29/swiss-tv-station-replaces-cameras-with-iphones-and-selfie-sticks/
‘Grandfathered,’ ‘Grinder’ Premiere Ratings OK; ‘Limitless’ Solid | Variety
Ratings: Fox Comedies Open OK; ‘Muppets’ Tumbles, ‘Limitless’ Holds Strong
On a busy second Tuesday of the television season that saw NBC dominate behind "The Voice," Fox comedies "Grandfathered" and "Grinder" opened to decent numbers while ABC’s new laffer "The Muppets" …
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/grandfathered-grinder-muppets-limitless-ratings-1201606130/
BT in talks with Netflix over enabling 4K » Digital TV Europe
High Anxiety on Hollywood Mega-Movies: How ‘Gambit’ Lost Its Director – Hollywood Reporter
High Anxiety on Hollywood Mega-Movies: How ‘Gambit’ Lost Its Director
After this summer’s debacle over Fantastic Four, it’s easy to understand why 20th Century Fox executives got nervous when director Rupert Wyatt began to seem skittish about taking on its next Marvel character movie, Gambit.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/high-anxiety-hollywood-mega-movies-828200
More Than 130 Stations May Go Dark In DirecTV, Dish, U-verse Fights | Variety
More Than 130 Stations May Go Dark In Contract Fights with DirecTV, Dish and U-verse
In a flare-up of retransmission consent wrangling, more than 130 local TV stations could go dark in the next 48 hours on DirecTV, Dish Network and U-verse as contract talks go down to the wire. Dis…
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/directv-dish-network-u-verse-tv-stations-contract-fight-1201606112/
Appeals Court: NCAA Rules “More Restrictive Than Necessary,” But Paying Athletes Problematic – Hollywood Reporter
Appeals Court: NCAA Rules "More Restrictive Than Necessary," But Paying Athletes Problematic
9th Circuit notes the procompetitive purposes of compensation limits to amateurs.
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