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IAC Sells CollegeHumor, More Than 100 Laid Off

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Barry Diller’s media company IAC has sold CollegeHumor Media, whose portfolio includes comedy site CollegeHumor, Drawfee, Dorkly and relatively new streamer Dropout, which debuted in September 2018, Variety has confirmed. The move resulted in over 100 layoffs at the company. – Elaine Low & Will Thorne, Variety » https://trib.al/2VST1UV [photo: College Humor]

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Planned .Org Registry Sale Puts The Pirate Bay at Risk

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The Internet Society is in the process of selling the Public Interest Registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital. The planned sale has raised widespread concerns over a possible price hike and suspensions of .org domains. This could also be relevant for many pirate sites including The Pirate Bay, which still operates from its original .org domain – Ernesto, TorrentFreak » https://ift.tt/2DupYpA

MoviePass Shutting Down, Parent Company ‘Unable To Predict If Or When…Service Will Continue’

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[Helios and Matheson Analytics] today said that it formed a strategic review committee comprised of independent directors, to identify, review and explore all strategic and financial alternatives for the Company, including a sale of the Company in its entirety, a sale of substantially all of the Company’s assets including MoviePass, Moviefone and MoviePass Films. Today, MoviePass notified its subscribers that “it would be interrupting the MoviePass service” effective Sept. 14 to because its efforts to recapitalize MoviePass have not been successful to date. – Anthony D’Alessandro, Deadline Hollywood » http://dlvr.it/RD3T7H

Amazon grabs a piece of the Yankees network in a $3.47 billion deal

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Disney sold its stake in the YES Network to an investor group that includes the Yankees, Amazon and Sinclair Broadcasting. The group announced today that it was acquiring the 80 percent stake in the YES Network previously held by Disney in a $3.47 billion deal. In the press release, the group said the sale would mark the beginning of a new “strategic partnership” between the three companies. – Amrita Khalid, Engadget » https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/29/amazon-grabs-a-piece-of-the-yankees-network-in-a-3-47-billion-d/ [photo:YES Network/Facebook]

Roku’s Brilliant Move To Capture Black Friday

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Why did Roku release the Roku SE? The special edition, which was only notable for its low price was the belle of the ball on Black Friday with every major vendor who had it selling out of the product. It was Roku’s brilliant move to capture black Friday. At $25.00 it was hard to resist for those looking to try out the platform for the first time or expand on what they already had. It got more press than the Fire Stick or Apple TV or Chromecast. But it was not a new product. It had no new special features and it was only sold as part of an event sale. Unlike Amazon, Roku does not sell below costs and make up for it with purchases later like Apple or Amazon. So why did they do it and how could they charge so little for it? It was a garage sale. – Michael Ryan Downey, The Streaming Advisor 

5 products you should buy on Cyber Monday instead of Black Friday

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Game console bundles: While Black Friday is certainly offering its share of great deals on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 bundles, [Kyle James,Wise Bread] notes that retailers GameStop, Target, Costco, and Walmart all offered even deeper discounts on console bundles on Cyber Monday last year. – Brad Reed,BGR

Getflix lets you access restricted streaming globally – 88% off

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Getflix is a smart DNS service that removes the geoblocks on Netflix, Hulu, BBC iPlayer and many more streaming media services across the globe. Usually, these services operate with monthly subscription packages. But Getflix is temporarily offering a lifetime subscription for only $39 – that’s a massive 88 percent saving, down from $330. – The Next Web

Walmart’s Streaming Video Service VUDU Discounts All Of This Year’s Emmy-Nominated Shows To $.67

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For folks who might enjoy, say, Game of Thrones and VEEP, but not enough to pay for HBO or HBO NOW just for those two shows, […] Walmart’s streaming service VUDU might make sense: it charges per episode for TV shows, instead of requiring an upfront subscription fee for access to its libraries. VUDU is now sweetening the deal on some shows, knocking the per-episode price of all 2015 Emmy nominees and winners down to $0.67. – Mary Beth Quirk, The Consumerist

FTC investigation into Apple heats up, music streaming services hit with subpoenas

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Apple’s App Store guidelines call for a 30 percent fee to be charged to any sales by a subscription service that signs up users through an iOS app and uses iAP, which is essentially every paid music streaming service. This forces music streaming services like Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody, and Tidal — who all charge $9.99 a month for their subscription service on their own sites — to charge users who sign up through their respective iOS apps $12.99 a month to make up for the lost revenue it must pay to Apple. – Micah Singleton, The Verge
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