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Short movies to make TV debut overseas
China Daily, Beijing / Asia News NetworkSHENZHEN, Guangdong (China Daily/ANN) -- Short movies from China are to make their debut on TV overseas in September, with the broadcasting and online distribution rights for about 30 shorts bought by a British company. The movies last for a total of 10...Tags: Television, China, Television Industry, Apple iTunes, Germany
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What we think: Florida pays price for Scott's anti-tax zealotry
In recent years, state and local governments in Florida have lost billions of dollars in unpaid sales taxes — dollars that might have been invested in priorities like schools, health care and public safety, or allowed other taxes to be reduced....Tags: Rick Scott, Elections, E-Commerce Industry, Regional Authority, Government
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BIS program graduate an example of UVa's non-traditional students
The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va.Sometimes doing it the hard way is the best way. Alex Slawski is graduating from the University of Virginia on Sunday, 14 years after he dropped out of college to learn the ins and outs of business the hard way and just two years after he returned to...Tags: Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), University of Virginia, Southwest Airlines Co., Students, Bloomington
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DirecTV Mulling Hulu Bid
VarietyDirecTV is the latest party said to be looking at acquiring Hulu, the Internet TV venture owned by News Corp., Walt Disney Co. and Comcast's NBCUniversal, according to published reports. Hulu and DirecTV declined to comment. The No. 1 satellite operator...Tags: Time Warner Cable Inc., News Corp., The Walt Disney Co., DirecTV Group Inc., Television Industry
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Google Glass, local eyewear firms augment reality
Orange County RegisterAs thousands of software coders gathered in San Francisco this week at Google's annual app-development conference, some already sported the company's very latest product -- high-tech eyewear called Google Glass. Good thing. Google needs that kind of...Tags: Google Glass, Computer Hardware, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Apple iPhone, Orange County Register
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'Zombieland' writer announces the series is dead at Amazon
Amazon hasn't yet announced which of the 14 pilots it released last month will be getting series orders, but there's already been one confirmed casualty: "Zombieland." Co-creator and co-writer Rhett Reese, who also co-wrote the hit film the pilot was...
Tags: Bill Murray, Emma Stone, Movies, Jesse Eisenberg, Entertainment
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Raising awareness
The Daily News of Newburyport, Mass.Thanks to the efforts of a Newburyport woman, the governor has declared May as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Month in Massachusetts. Diana Cleaveland, who was diagnosed in 2010 after years of wondering what was wrong, has made it her mission to raise awareness...Tags: Cardiologists, Cardiac Arrhythmia, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Deval Patrick, National Institutes of Health
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Festival Foods adapts to customers' needs
The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis.Ensuring repeat customers is an ongoing challenge for any business. With Fox Cities shoppers having options in supermarkets, Mark Skogen, president and CEO of Skogen's Festival Foods, which operates 17 grocery stores around the state, said constantly...Tags: Social Media, Twitter, Inc., Media Industry, Science and Technology, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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All hail our smart TV masters, but not just yet
After many false starts, television is becoming an interactive medium. In a sense, it's always been one — even two channels require a choice. Long accustomed to the illusion that the screen is a window through which we are sometimes directly...
Tags: Television, Netflix Inc., Marketing, Entertainment, Media Industry
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Smart TV: The industry push to keep getting smarter
For decades we've been watching TV. Now a new generation of televisions is beginning to watch us. Technological advances are giving the old clunky "boob tube" an I.Q. injection. Some of the new breed of smart TVs comes equipped with facial recognition...
Tags: Today (tv program), Advertising, Consumer Goods Industries, International CES, Netflix Inc.
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Networks send SOS to Michael J. Fox, Robin Williams and other stars
If viewers are losing interest in broadcast TV, what can lure them back? Executives hope they have an answer: stars. Lifting the curtain on their 2013-14 schedules at the "upfronts" in New York this week, the networks behaved like smartphone-...
Tags: Carnegie Hall, ABC (tv network), The Avengers (movie, 2012), Dancing With the Stars (tv program), Andy Samberg
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F-1 project tests team's mettle
The Hutchinson News, Kan.Crumpled-up chunks of metal rest in two large water-retention bins at the SpaceWorks division of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. The impact of each massive 18,000-pound engine falling more than 40 miles to the Atlantic Ocean crushed it like...Tags: NASA, Jeff Bezos, Conservation, Atlantic Ocean, Environmental Issues
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