C A B L ECharter/Skinny Rumors are circulating that cabler Charter is offering a bundle of local broadcast

channels, premium channel Showtime or HBO, and no long term contract for $12.99 monthly. Tack on another $7 and ESPN, Discovery, FX, ABC Family, AMC and TBS are part of the package.

Comcast/Solar Energy

Comcast is getting into the solar energy business through a deal with Sunrun that offers Comcast customers an alternative solar energy program that aims to reduce what they pay annually for electricity in addition to savings from the cable operator. The pilot program is being tested in select California locations. The offer ends December 31.

TruTV Turner Broadcasting announced that its truTV network will reduce the amount of commercial time in each hour of its original primetime programming by 20%, which translates into roughly 50 minutes of programming time per hour and only 10 minutes of advertising.

C O R P O R A T EIBM/Weather Co. IBM announced that it has acquired the Weather Co., the digital platform that

operates the Weather Channel and Weather Underground.

Note: The Weather Channel is not part of the acquisition by IBM of digital assets from Weather Co. TWC will continue to operate as a standalone business. TWC shareholders are Bain Capital, Blackstone and NBCUniversal.

D A T ANielsen/Digimarc Nielsen is teaming with Digimarc to utilize watermarks – embedded digital codes

– to help identify pieces of content that run throughout programming and commercials. Focus: second screen applications.

TiVo/Free Data Data entity TiVo announced it will be “giving away basic TV ratings data free for anyone commencing in the first quarter of 2016.” The company refers to this offering as a “platform for open TV ratings” with basic demos from a panel derived from 2.3+ million households.

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D B SDish/Programmatic Platform

Satcaster Dish unveiled a programmatic media buying platform, powered by IPONWEB, that will enable advertisers to target and serve ads on an “impression-by-impression” level to linear TV viewers. Also, the platform promises to enable addressable TV advertising inventory to be purchased via “real-time bidding technology.”

F I N A N C EATM/Eye Scans Citigroup is testing a new technology with automated teller machine

manufacturer Diebold that would allow customers to withdraw money with an eyeball scan or a code on a smartphone instead of a card swipe.

G A M I N GNintendo/Smartphone Game

Nintendo announced that its first mobile game release, Miitomo, will be delayed until March 2016.

G L O B A LChristian Missionaries Top countries sending and receiving Christian missionaries in 2010, according

to The Center for the Study of Global Christianity, as reported by The Wall Street Journal:

Sending the Most Receiving the MostCountries Missionaries Countries MissionariesU.S. 127,000 U.S. 32,400Brazil 34,000 Brazil 20,000France 21,000 Russia 20,000Spain 21,000 Congo 15,000Italy 20,000 South Africa 12,000South Korea 20,000 France 10,000United Kingdom 15,000 United Kingdom 10,000Germany 14,000 Argentina 10,000India 10,000 Chile 8,500Canada 8,500 India 8,000

Edward Snowden/EU The New York Times reported that the European Parliament adopted a nonbinding but nonetheless forceful resolution urging the 28 nations of the European Union to recognize Edward J. Snowden as a “whistle-blower and international human rights defender” and shield him from prosecution.

Note: Whether or not to grant Mr. Snowden asylum remains a decision for the individual European governments and none have done so thus far.

M O B I L EAmazon/Pay With Amazon

Amazon is bringing its e-commerce payment application Pay with Amazon buttons to mobile apps. Earlier this year, Amazon killed a digital wallet project before it even exited beta testing.

Mastercard/Mobile Payments

Mastercard unveiled plans to enable payment transactions on as many “Internet of Things” as possible. They are experimenting with payment options from rings on ones ringer to the key fob for an automobile.

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M U S I CDJs/Top Earners Forbes’ top earning DJs:

Rank DJ Country $ (Millions)1 Calvin Harris Scotland $662 David Guetta France $373 Tiësto Netherlands $364 Skrillex U.S. $244 Steve Aoki U.S. $246 Avicii Sweden $197 Kaskade U.S. $188 Martin Garrix Netherlands $178 Zedd Germany $17

10 Afrojack Netherlands $1611 Deadmau5 Canada $1511 Diplo U.S. $15

YouTube Music Key YouTube announced that its YouTube Music Key is shutting down. The service offered users full album streams and offline listening for $7.99 a month and also included access to Google Play Music.

P E R S O N A L I T I E SKarl Marx/Highgate Cemetery

London’s Highgate Cemetery, where Karl Marx is buried, is charging about $6 to pay respects to the author of The Communist Manifesto. Roughly 200 people visit his grave per day. Other deceased people of note in the park range from novelist George Elliot to punk impresario Malcolm McLaren.

Al Molinaro Actor Al Molinaro, known for his role as Al Delvecchio, the harried diner owner on the long running ABC sitcom Happy Days, has passed away. He was 96 years old.

Maureen O’Hara Actress Maureen O’Hara (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, Miracle on 34th Street) has passed away. She was 95 years old.

Microsoft Microsoft has opened a 22,000 square foot multistoried store in New York City on Fifth Avenue – its 113th store in the last 6 years.

P H A R M APfizer/Allergan Drug manufacturers Pfizer and Allergan have begun preliminary discussions

about a potential combination. Some stats, as reported by The Wall Street Journal and USA Today:Category Pfizer AllerganHeadquarter New York City Dublin

Parsippany, N.J.Employees 78,300 32,100Market Cap $214 billion $120 billion

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P H A R M A (cont’d)Pfizer/Allergan (cont’d)

Category Pfizer AllerganTop 5 Products Prevnar (pneumonia):

$2.8 billionBotox (wrinkles):$751 million

Lyrica (nerve + muscle pain):$2.4 billion

Namenda IR (Alzheimer):$478 million

Enbrel (arthritis, psoriasis):$1.6 billion

Namenda XR (Alzheimer):$355 million

Lipitor (cholesterol):$950 million

Restasis (dry eye):$355 million

Viagra (erectile dysfunction):$843 million

Bystolic (high blood pressure):$321 million

P U B L I S H I N GTribune/Content Solutions

Tribune launched a new agency, Tribune Content Solutions, which it describes as an agency within the company that will create multiplatform campaigns for local and national advertisers.

R E T A I LWal-Mart/Drones Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, petitioned the Federal Aviation

Administration to grant permission to test unmanned aircraft outdoors for everything from package delivery to inventory management. The program is code named Prime Air. To date, the FAA has issued more than 2,000 approvals in the past year for commercial use of drones.

Walgreens/Rite Aid Drugstore chain Walgreens is acquiring Rite Aid Corp. in a $17.2 billion deal. The combined entity would own roughly 12,000 U.S. stores and dwarf rival CVS, which owns about 7,800 locations.

Note: CVS has 58% market share in the pharmacy and drug store business, Walgreens controls 31% and Rite Aid has 10%, according to research firm IBISWorld.

S P O R T SFantasy Sports/ Oversight Board

In response to the negative publicity fantasy sports sites have received, which include a federal criminal probe and scrutiny from state regulators, the fantasy sports industry unveiled plans to create an outside control board to ensure ethical behavior in the industry. The board will be christened The Fantasy Sports Control Agency and its mission will be to monitor daily and nondaily fantasy sports companies.

Hot Dogs/Baseball Fans

The World Health Organization’s cancer research arm projected that baseball fans will eat more than 18.5 million hot dogs and nearly 4.2 million sausages this season.

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V I D E OSnapchat/Speed Modifers

About a week after Instagram debuted Boomerang – a new app that loops 1-second videos, Snapchat rolled out Speed Modifiers, which enables users to post videos in slow motion, fast forward or reverse.

T-Mobile/Streaming Video Data Usage

Rumors are circulating that mobile operator T-Mobile is planning to allow customers to stream video from major streaming video services, such as Netflix and HBO Now, without counting that data against their monthly allotments. The carrier also has a similar arrangement with a variety of music services.

YouTube Red/ESPN ESPN pulled its official clips from YouTube as part of a dispute over the website’s new ad free YouTube Red service, which costs $9.99 a month.

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BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK ’S TOP 20 BUSINESS SCHOOLS

RANK BUSINESS SCHOOL

1 Harvard2 Chicago (Booth)3 Northwestern (Kellogg)4 MIT (Sloan)5 Pennsylvania (Wharton)6 Columbia7 Stanford8 Duke (Fuqua)9 UC Berkeley (Haas)

10 Michigan ((Ross)11 Yale12 Virginia (Darden)13 UCLA (Anderson)14 Dartmouth (Tuck)15 Emory (Goizueta)16 Cornell (Johnson)17 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)18 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)19 Rice (Jones)20 Washington (Foster)

MOST POPULAR U.S. UNIVERSITIES FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS (2013-14)

UNIVERSITY FOREIGN STUDENTS

New York University 11,164

University of Southern California 10,932

University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign 10,843

Columbia University 10,486

Purdue University – Main Campus 9,988

University of California – Los Angeles 9,579

Northeastern University 9,078

Arizona State University 8,683

Michigan State University 7,704

University of Washington 7,469

Source: Institute of International Education, The Wall Street Journal

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ’S “BABY BOOM TO BUST: A HISTORY OF BEIJING’S POPULATION CONTROL EFFORTS”

YEAR POLICY

1970 China’s population exceeds 800 million. With the fertility rate at 5.5, leaders encourage citizens to marry later and wait longer between children.

1979 The country’s fertility rate drops to 2.7.

1980 Communist Party implements one-child policy.

1984 A change in the policy allows a second child for many families in rural areas.

2000 Demographers join forces to advocate for relaxing the reproductive policy.

2001 New laws allow local governments to impose fines on families who have additional children.

2013 An exemption allows two children if one parent came from a household without siblings.

2015 The leadership announces a new policy, saying all couples will be allowed to have two children. No time frame is given for the shift.

TOP PAY TV PROVIDERS IN THE U.S.(CLOSE OF SECOND QUARTER 2015)

Source: Leichtman Research Group*Includes Cox and others**Proposed merger of Charter, Time Warner and Bright House into New Charter

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CATEGORY COMPANY SUBSCRIBERSCable Comcast 22,306,000

Time Warner** 10,982,000Charter** 4,258,000Cablevision 2,637,000Suddenlink 1,102,600Mediacom 879,000Cable ONE 399,878Others* 6,395,000Total 48,959,478

Telcos AT&T*** 5,971,000Verizon FiOS 5,765,000Total 11,736,000

Satellite DirecTV*** 20,279,000Dish 13,932,000Total 34,211,000

TOTAL - 94,906,478

***DirecTV was acquired by AT&T but for the purposes of this chart listed separately

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