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DreamWorks says TV revenue to hit $200M by 2015
LOS ANGELES - DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. says its new deal to provide original TV shows to Netflix will help it double the revenue it gets from TV shows to $200 million by 2015.DreamWorks expects $100 million in TV revenue this year. The Glendale, Calif., company released the figures in a call with analysts Tuesday.The deal to supply Netflix Inc. with 300 hours of new TV shows over several ...
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DealBook Google’s Effort to Skirt Regulation May Invite More Scrutiny
Apple , which also reportedly bid $400 million for the company earlier this year.A billion dollars not only cements Google's lead in map search, it does so in a big way. Google has paid large sums to have cars drive around the world to give its maps information content. But Waze is doing the same thing on the cheap by having its own users do the work.Both types of systems are difficult and ...
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Samsung sheds $19 billion in market value
e-book antitrust trial (which I've been attending), I must have taken my eye off the Apple v. Samsung smartphone wars. Otherwise, how could I have missedMiyoung Kim's report Sundayout ...
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Alcatel-Lucent revamp aims to cut 1 billion euros in costs report
PARIS (Reuters) - Telecommunications gear maker Alcatel-Lucent aims to cut a billion euros in costs and focus on the IP router business and mobile broadband as part of a strategic revamp to be unveiled by its new chief executive on Wednesday, French daily Les Echos ...
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Exclusive SunGard explores $2 billion data unit sale - sources
NEW YORK (Reuters) - SunGard Data Systems Inc, the computer software maker that was taken private in 2005 for $11.4 billion, is exploring a sale of its data managing operations that could fetch up to $2 billion, several people familiar with the matter said on ...
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Hustle & Flow
In Craig Brewer's Hustle & Flow, Terrence Howard, who has been an ensemble and supporting player in dozens of movies over the past decade, does a star-making turn as DJay, a low-level hustler and pot dealer on the mean streets of Memphis, Tennessee. Howard's searing performanc ... ...
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Google challenges surveillance court on First Amendment grounds
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Google Inc asked the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests it receives separately from criminal requests, on First Amendment ...
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Adobe profit beats as Creative Cloud subscriptions soar
Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer of Adobe Systems Inc., speaks during the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecom Summit in New York May 21, ...
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Nvidia to license its graphics
The chipmaker says its GPU technology could show up in other companies's processors for everything from smartphones to supercomputers in a couple ...
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To the end of the world
user-generated content . Nevertheless, there's always, inevitably, an end to the road. Naturally, sometimes this is because the land just plumb runs out. But there are a number of other reasons Google's cameras have not been able to proceed, from the natural to the man-made. The Atlantic's Alan Taylor took ...
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Facebook reportedly delays release of video ads
(Credit: Facebook) Facebook is postponing the release of video advertisements that automatically play in News Feed, according to Ad Age. The social network wants to release the specialized units alongside new social-networking features and is now targeting an unofficial mid-October launch date, Ad ...
They said it
Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
Hassan Rouhani
Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
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