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Movies & TV

Coen Bros. Producing Fargo Miniseries for FX

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FX today announced they have given a greenlight to Fargo, a TV version of the Academy Award winning Coen Brothers movie.

The project will be a “limited run series” (AKA, a miniseries) consisting of ten episodes. Joel & Ethan Coen will executive produce, with Noah Hawley (The Unusuals) writing and serving as showrunner. Warren Littlefield is also executive producing.

The series won’t retell the film’s storyline, but follow a new case – presumably with Marge Gunderson (played so memorably by Frances McDormand in the film) involved, though FX only says “new characters” will be a part of the story.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies

Articles of Interest

‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’ Renewed For Season 10 And ‘The League’ For Season 6 On FX

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

FX has renewed “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” for a tenth season and “The League” for a sixth season.

The comedies, which wrapped their eighth and fourth seasons respectively in December 2012, will move to FX’s new network FXX.

FX‘s flagship comedy series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” was renewed for an eighth and ninth season in 2011. Season 9 of the series — which stars Danny DeVito, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson — will debut in September 2013.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post

Business, Finance, Occupation & Industry

CitiFX Wire has Record Day amid 95% YTD Growth

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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

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CitiFX Wire has Record Day amid 95% YTD Growth

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CitiFX Wire, Citi’s real-time news service for clients, had a record day on March 25 in terms of hits (number of articles clicked and opened). Since the start of the year, CitiFX Wire has seen 95% growth and its year-on-year growth is currently running at more than 580%.

Content on the service is provided by CitiFX’s traders, strategists, technical analysts, economists and a team of dedicated editors. Given CitiFX’s position in the global FX market, the breadth of vision provided is unrivalled, and CitiFX Wire provides a range of reports from short-term intraday commentary to longer-term macro research, and also covers both G10 as well as onshore and offshore emerging markets.

CitiFX Wire is disseminated on the bank’s trading platforms, its website and through its mobile applications. In addition, clients can subscribe to receive delayed content by email. Currently, around 750,000 emails are sent out every week. CitiFX Wire is probably the most widely read institutional FX information platform in the world, providing a valuable service for both the bank’s staff and clients.

“We knew that we had a lot of valuable information in our system and CitiFX Wire was set up to pull all of that together. Clients are now flocking to it as it presents all of this information in real time in a single location. We provide minute-by-minute commentary from our global traders, as well as longer last research and analysis on macro trends and other developments. It is a unique and powerful differentiator for our platforms,” says Simon Jones, global head of FX e-trading.

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About Citi

Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com | Twitter: @Citi | YouTube: www.youtube.com/citi | Blog: http://new.citi.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/citi | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/citi

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
Business, Finance, Occupation & Industry

Western Union Launches New Products to Help SMEs

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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

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Western Union Launches New Products to Help SMEs

New tools will help them manage international cash flow and grow business

LONDON & ENGLEWOOD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Western Union Business Solutions, a unit of the Western Union Company (NYS: WU) , a leader in global payment services, today announced the launch of Currency Options in the UK as well as the worldwide release of a new cash management tool designed to assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) engaged in international trade.

Western Union Business Solutions’ new GlobalPay Cash Management dashboard is a new tool that will give SME clients an immediate overview of their total payments exposure. Users will be able to calculate their FX risk based on the amount of money and currencies they are trading in at current market price, allowing them better to manage their international risk and cash flow.

Added to this is the launch of Currency Options in the UK. British SMEs, many of whom have been hit by increased sterling volatility in 2013 and are consequently struggling with cash flow, will be able to further protect their margins from increased currency volatility and still capitalize on favorable FX market movements.

Business owners and corporate treasurers will now be able to set a forward exchange rate at a specified date and then choose whether to use the pre-agreed amount or to reconsider given current market conditions. This gives SME owners the security of knowing the absolute most that they will be required to pay for a transaction, regardless of currency volatility.

Raj Agrawal, president, Western Union Business Solutions said: “Currency volatility is hurting many of our clients who are seeing their cash flows tighten in light of dramatic market activity. SMEs in particular need more tools to help them manage their international exposures effectively in order to be a step ahead of the competition and grow their businesses in a challenging market.”

“As the outlook for the global economy remains unclear, small businesses are finding themselves under continued pressure. This is why we are expanding and diversifying our product offering: to meet a real and growing need for SMEs.”

FX Options in the UK will be sold by the UK branch of Western Union‘s wholly owned subsidiary, Western Union International Bank GmbH, and follows a similar launch in Singapore in 2012. Western Union Business Solutions now …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

Business, Finance, Occupation & Industry

Charlie Sheen and DigiDev Team in Internet TV Venture

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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

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Charlie Sheen and DigiDev Team in Internet TV Venture

Sheen Finds a Home for His Voice

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Digital Development Group (OTCBB: DIDG) (DigiDev), a Hollywood, California,-based OTT (Over the Top) TV content acquisition and distribution company, announced today that it has signed actor Charlie Sheen as spokesperson for its network, DigiDev TV, http://www.digidev.tv. Sheen will be curator of DigiDev’s channels and act as special content acquisition advisor to the company.

Joe Q. Bretz, president of DigiDev, an OTT TV company, and Charlie Sheen sign partnership deal. (Photo: Business Wire)

As part of Sheen’s involvement with the Digital Distribution Group (DigiDev), he will develop his own channel, “Charlie Sheen Cyber TV,” that will carry a wide range of programming, including unique and unconventional content that the actor will develop.

“A long time ago on a movie set far, far away, a character I once played said, ‘life all comes down to a few moments, and this is one of them,'” says Sheen. “DigiDev is one of these moments. For years I have longed for a home and an outlet for the tsunami that is my brain. Batten down the Forbes hatches; I hope DigiDev can hold its breath for a long time.”

“I have been working closely with Charlie for quite some time to create this partnership,” says Joe Q. Bretz, president of DigiDev. “It’s going to be an amazing relationship, we consider ourselves to be the ‘misfits’ of TV, misfits change the world, and we intend on creating something alongside Charlie that will be historical.”

DigiDev gives special thanks to Kato Kaelin, Darius McCrary (famed actor of “Family Matters”), Jeff Ballard (Sheen’s publicist) and the rest of the Sheen team to make this a reality, rather a “virtual reality.”

ABOUT CHARLIE SHEEN

Charlie Sheen currently stars on FX‘s popular TV comedy series, Anger Management. Sheen, who has starred in more than 40 feature films, catapulted to fame in such critical and commercial hits as Platoon and Wall Street. Some of his other feature film credits include Red Dawn, Lucas, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Eight Men Out, Young Guns, Major League, Hot Shots!,Hot Shots! Part Deux, The Three Musketeers, Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, and the upcoming Scary Movie 5.

On television, Sheen is known for his roles on Spin City, and Two and a Half Men.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

Movies & TV

Lindsay Lohan Guests on Anger Management

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We haven’t even seen them together once, but they’ll be more than one Charlie Sheen / Lindsay Lohan team-ups in the near future. The tabloid-baiting actors are both in the upcoming Scary Movie 5, and now Deadline reveals Lohan will be guest starring on Sheen’s FX sitcom, Anger Management.

According to Deadline, Lohan will play herself on the episode, who “develops a romantic relationship with Sheen’s character after becoming his therapy patient.” The episode is slated to air in April, likely as a publicity stunt to help promote Scary Movie 5.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies

News, Politics, Government

This Really Is Astonishing About The Financial Transactions Tax

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By Tim Worstall, Contributor I am aware that Algirdas Semeta is a politician. But this series of untruths in a public place is really almost unprecedented. He’s talking about the new financial transactions tax that is to be implemented in 11 eurozone (that is, the part of the European Union that uses the euro) next year. Given that he’s the Commissioner responsible for it he does have to support it. But couldn’t he be rather more accurate with his factual declarations? The levy will ensure that the under-taxed financial sector finally makes a fair contribution to the public purse. No, no it won’t. As I pointed out in this paper it will not be the “financial sector” which picks up the burden of this tax. My source? The European Commission’s own paper into the subject. The people that will bear the burden of the tax are the workers in the form of lower wages. Second, the tax offers substantial new revenues. Around €30-35bn (£26-30bn) per year will be generated from this small tax of just 0.1% on bonds and shares and 0.01% on derivatives. This means new resources for growth-friendly investment, stabilising public finances or wider commitments such as development aid. No, no it won’t. My source? That same EU paper on this tax. They point out that it will shrink the EU economy. Sufficiently so that less tax revenue will be raised overall. Recall, this is what the EU itself said about this tax. Finally, it should help to deter the irresponsible financial trading that contributed to the crisis we are in today. It will favour steady financial activity over high-risk speculation and steer the financial sector towards the real economy. No, it won’t even do that. What toppled the financial system was residential mortgages. These were hardly traded. Like almost all bonds they were issued, traded maybe once or twice, then sat on balance sheets until they went bust. This tax will hit the options, futures, commodity and FX markets. None of which had anything at all to do with the financial crash. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

Automobiles

Future Infiniti IPL Performance Models to See Big Input from Red Bull Racing F1 Team

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By Justin Berkowitz

The outgoing Infiniti G37 IPL was never meant to be a direct challenger to heavy hitters like the BMW M3, just a warmer G, and it showed. (In fact, a source at Nissan once told us there was a relatively big “uh-oh” moment when the BMW 335is was announced.) With Infiniti now taking, well, everything seriously, that has to change. For help in making the next Infiniti Performance Line models competitive, the brand is turning to its new corporate partner—Red Bull Racing. Yes, that’s right—engineers and test drivers from the reigning world-champion F1 team.

Infiniti’s sponsorship of Red Bull Racing, then, is the $250-million gift that keeps on giving. Although plans for some engineering exchanges have been on the table since their relationship commenced in 2011, we’ve not heard much since then. Now that an initial period of awkward, “Do you like pizza? I like pizza” getting to know one another, has ended, senior execs on both sides say, the two organizations are really getting down to business. We’ll see the first, juiciest fruits of this collaboration on the upcoming Q50 IPL. We’re still not expecting a full-blown M3, but the result should be an extremely capable sports sedan.

To get a sense of what Red Bull can offer, one need only look at the Infiniti FX Sebastian Vettel edition. Far from a cynical marketing ploy to slap a driver’s name on a road car, Vettel himself took to track in a prototype version of the FX that was to bear his name. Speaking to the development team after his high-speed drive, Vettel was encouraged to be candid. Apparently, he was—and gave the folks from Infiniti a laundry list of improvements to be made. He returned months later and found that his suggestions had been incorporated.

There may even come a time when we see some indication of Red Bull Racing as a badge on an IPL or other Infiniti road car, we’ve heard. But the people running both organizations are very clear that they’d rather see genuine engineering collaboration on the road cars than logo stickers. We agree, especially since most Americans just know Red Bull as caffeinated sugar water. Unfortunately, IPL has even less recognition than that. But with a crew of Formula 1 specialists now getting deeply involved, IPL could become a household name—in households that subscribe to Car and Driver, at least—very soon.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Car & Driver

News, Politics, Government

'The Avengers' Produces the Most Stylish FX Reel Ever Made

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By Carol Pinchefsky, Contributor FX reels give us a great glimpse into the moviemaking process. From greenscreen to actors’ makeup tests, these videos show us many of the elements that make even the most astonishing effects appear real. And out of all of these “making of” segments I’ve seen, the FX reel for The Avengers tops them all.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

News, Politics, Government

Looming ECB Rate Decision To Keep Investors At Bay

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By Dean Popplewell, Contributor It’s not easy right now for the FX investor to find something of substance to get excited about. Caution over a plethora of Q4 earnings in the coming weeks is expected to naturally limit risk. The fiscal cliff euphoria is long gone and markets again are beginning to brace themselves for the onslaught of drawn-out negotiations to raise the US debt ceiling and avert huge spending cuts. Breaking the current monotony will be the big boys coming out to play tomorrow. The BoE and ECB policy makers will finally ‘show their hands’.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

Automobiles

Infiniti Embracing Lincoln Concept Of Meaningless Names

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By Kurt Ernst

Infiniti’s new naming strategy

One of the things we love about Infiniti is this: its product names instantly tell us the model and the engine size we’re dealing with. The Infiniti G37, for example, is the brand’s compact sedan (or coupe, or convertible), powered by the 3.7-liter V-6. The QX56 is the big SUV, powered by a 5.6-liter V-8.

Not any more, since for the 2014 model year Infiniti is adopting bizarre nomenclature that identifies vehicles by their “hierarchy within a range.” The G, M, EX, FX, JX and QX prefixes will all be dropped, too, with cars carrying the “Q” designator and crossovers or SUVs wearing the QX name. The G37 sedan (or actually, it’s replacement, due to debut at the Detroit Auto Show) will become the Q50, while the M sedan will become the Q70. The G series coupe and convertible will split the difference, with both being called the Q60.

Taking the Q70 as an example, buyers will have to choose between the 3.7-liter V-6, the 5.6-liter V-8 and the 3.5-liter hybrid, but none of those choices are reflected in the name. Drop the Q70 name on us, and we’ll have no idea which model you’re talking about. On the plus side, we suppose that M37 buyers (sorry, we meant Q70 buyers) will no longer be singled out for ridicule for buying the smaller engine, since a Q70 is a Q70 is a Q70.

To be frank, we hate Lincoln’s naming convention, and we fail to see how adopting a similar meaningless naming strategy will sell even one more Infiniti vehicle. In fact, it’s likely to just confuse buyers, giving them one more reason to hit the Lexus and Audi dealers first. If you’re trying to grow brand awareness and market share, it seems like a step in the wrong direction to us.

Source: Automotive Addicts