• Apple Allows An App For Hacking, With Exceptions
    Apple's latest app will teach you how to hack, but not how to hack an iPhone. And it won't allow the Germany-based Chaos Computer Club to show videos teaching people how to hack in other sensitive areas, like how to hack heart pacemaker sites.
  • PewDiePie Gets His Own Place
    PewDiePie, with over 40 million subscribers, will put together a collection of YouTube creators/influencers who are generally focused on video-game-related content as part of a new media brand, Revelmode. Under the new Revelmode banner, Mr. Pie--who’s name in real life is Felix Kjellberg--will put together a collection of YouTube creators/influencers who are generally focused on video-game-related content. 
  • Ziggy Stardust-to-Dust: Bowie Views Set Vevo Record
    David Bowie's death caused a spike in demand at Vevo where his videos were watched more than 51 million times on Jan. 11, more than any other artist ever got at Vevo in just one day.
  • Otter Media Invests In New Global Studio
    Otter Media, the joint venture between AT&T and Peter Chernin's company, has invested in a new global digital studio with media veterans Van Toffler and Floris Bauer called Gunpowder & Sky. Toffler, a former MTV big thinker described the new entity as the “defiant lovechild of YouTube, the MCNs, and Netflix, mixed with the subversive spirit of those independent creative misfits who altered the planet from their very wired garages.” 
  • Netflix CEO Creates $100M Education Fund
    Netflix CEO Reed Hastings just established a $100 million philanthropic fund dedicated to education. “The Hastings Fund, set up through through the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, will be run by Neerav Kingsland,” USAToday reports. “The first $1.5 million is going to the United Negro College Fund and to the Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley.”
  • Problems With Trib Stations Leads To Plan A Way Out
    Tribune Media is the CW affiliate in many major markets but CBS and Time Warner expect trouble trying to renegotiate those pacts. So, OTT seems mighty interesting.
  • The New Yorker's Magazine Show To Debut On Amazon
    A pilot Amazon floated last year was a reasonably graceful video version of the Conde Nast title. It was a little hesitant, and pretty different for Amazon. The online content service begins dishing it out "The New Yorker Presents" on Feb. 16
  • Google Is Betting Big on VR
    Google  is forming its own dedicated division for virtual reality computing, with CEO Sundar Pichai moving over a key deputy to run it, according to multiple sources. Some thought Google wasn't as serious as Facebook is about VR.
  • Bravo Has A Hot New Digital Dish
    Bravo Media is launching The Feast, a digital platform featuring a curated selection of food experiences, from wild dishes to interesting dining locales.
  • 'One Day At A Time' For Netflix With Latino Flavor
    Norman Lear's "One Day at a Time" is coming back to Netflix. But it won't be quite the same story. This version will feature three generations of Cuban-Americans living under one roof--but with a building custodian named Schneider. Of course. 
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