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  • How European Public Broadcasters Cash Crunch Affects Hollywood

    Athens is a long way from Hollywood, so when the cash-strapped Greek government decided to shut down its national public broadcaster, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation or ERT, it sparked huge local protests, while the news barely registered in Tinseltown. However, anyone doing business in Europe – and that includes all the studios – should pay attention given the ripple ...

  • UPDATE 3-Sony CEO asks for patience as shareholders press on spinoff plan

    Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:57am EDT * Shareholders press CEO Hirai for detailed stance on spinoff proposal * Hirai says Sony's board will consider Third Point's proposal carefully * Sony shares up more than 7 pct since Third Point letter in mid-May By Mari Saito TOKYO, June 20 (Reuters) - Sony Corp shareholders pressed its chief executive for a response to hedge fund Third Point's proposal ...

  • Southeast Asia e-tailer Lazada raises $100M in funding

    (Credit: Lazada) Lazada, an online retail sales business focusing on Southeast Asia, announced Wednesday it has raised another $100 million from investors apparently confident of the region's growth potential. The e-commerce site, which bills itself as the "Amazon of Southeast Asia," was launched in early 2012 by Germany's Rocket Internet, which specializes in ...

  • UPDATE 5-Sopranos star James Gandolfini dies in Italy

    Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:33am EDT (Adds Tony nomination for "Gods of Carnage", co-star reaction) By Piya Sinha-Roy and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, June 19 (Reuters) - James Gandolfini, the burly actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of a conflicted New Jersey mob boss in the groundbreaking cable TV series "The Sopranos," died on Wednesday vacationing in Italy. He was ...

  • India sets up elaborate system to tap phone calls e-mail

    By Anurag Kotoky NEW DELHI, June 20 | Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:20am EDT NEW DELHI, June 20 (Reuters) - India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance programme that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, several sources said. The expanded surveillance in the world's ...


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Femme Fatale

Femme Fatale

Brian De Palmas Femme Fatale is a tour de force of giddy-enthralling cinematic trashiness. Its a true return to a form for an old master who is constantly threatening to mellow and go soft, a highly self-conscious meditation on both De Palmas inspirations and himself. Its everything De Palmas detractors hate about him and his fans love about himit thumbs its nose at convention, laughs at l ... ...

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  • LinkedIn suffers site outage due to DNS issue

    (Credit: LinkedIn) LinkedIn is battling a DNS issue that took the business social networking site offline for an hour Wednesday night. The outage, which appears to be over for most of LinkedIn's members, began when the site's homepage was replaced by a domain sales page ...

  • U.S. celebrity chef explains use of racial epithet in deposition

    June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:18pm EDT June 19 (Reuters) - U.S. celebrity chef Paula Deen, known for her high-calorie Southern cooking, admitted in a deposition that surfaced on Wednesday that she has used racial slurs but her attorney says she does not tolerate prejudice. A former employee of Paula Deen Enterprises, Lisa Jackson, is suing Deen and her brother Earl "Bubba" Hiers ...

  • Rockmelt launches Android app with enhanced navigation

    Android users and not merely a port of an iOS app." So, what are the differences between the social browser's Android and iOS app? A lot. First of all, the Android app is tooled for bigger screens, which means navigation is at the bottom of the screen in portrait mode and on the right in landscape mode. Also, as users scroll through the app, the navigation disappears to show-off more ...

  • James Gandolfini is Dead at 51

    The Sopranos star passed away while on vacation in Rome, Italy. Gandolfini this Saturday was scheduled to appear alongside actress Marisa Tomei during the closing ceremony of ...

  • Facebook has never been stronger since IPO Sandberg says

    Reuters © Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, speaks during Reuters Global Technology Summit in San Francisco, June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Stephen ...

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