Apple buying Disney?!

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According to a story circulating the internet, Apple is weighing the option of buying Disney. For $200 billion.

“Recently, investors have increased their expectations that Apple could seriously consider acquiring Disney,” the report says.

Making it clear that Apple are open to “acquisitions of any size”

Disney, one of the few companies in the world that is as instantly recognizable and popular as Apple, makes for a compelling potential partner.

It would require federal help though:

Apple would need U.S. regulators to give it a “tax holiday” to repatriate offshore cash to fund an acquisition of Disney. Assuming Apple could obtain a 9% tax rate, it would effectively have access to cash of $223 billion.

Interesting.

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Lego Worlds

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Funk Butcher played a really cool game this past week called Lego Worlds:

LEGO Worlds is a galaxy of procedurally-generated Worlds made entirely of LEGO bricks which you can freely manipulate and dynamically populate with LEGO models and play out your own unique adventures! Even Play with a select number of real-life LEGO sets, taken from the Classic and current LEGO themes!

Use the multi-tool to shape environments and alter any World to your liking: raise the terrain to create vast mountain ranges, or enter the Brick-by-Brick editor to build anything you can imagine. Plus build any world you can imagine using the brick-by-brick editor tool and prefabricated LEGO structures 

To buy your own copy of LEGO Worlds please click here!

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Sleepy Mouse

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Sleepy Mouse likes to sleep, loves his cheese but hates to wake up hangry! Get the cheese to Sleepy Mouse before he wakes. Avoid alarm clocks, radios, triggers, magnets, holes and moving platforms in this 75 level, 2D physics based puzzle game. Make friends with blue cheese to stop Sleepy Mouse getting in a stink and pick up sheep for more sleep.
Find the smartest solution to the puzzles on each of the 75 hand crafted levels. Earn Gold, Silver and Bronze stars by completing each level with as much of Sleepy Mouse’s precious sleep as possible. Shot complexity helps you to get top scores so aim for as many bounces as possible on your final shot.

To download Sleepy Mouse please click here: Apple / Android

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Strava Running and Cycling GPS

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Millions of runners and cyclists use Strava to record their activities, compare performance over time, compete with their community, and share the photos, stories and highlights of their activities with friends.

Track Your Runs and Rides for Free
• Activity Tracking: During and after activity, get key stats like distance, pace, speed, elevation gained and calories burned, as well as an interactive map of your activity
• Personal Challenge: Participate in monthly Challenges designed to push you further
• Segments: Runs and rides can get long — see how you fared on sub-sections of your activity with Strava Segments

To download Strava Running and Cycling GPS please click here Apple / Android

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Drive Now

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DriveNow is the car sharing venture from BMW i, MINI and Sixt. As a DriveNow customer you have access to our cars at any time, whenever you need one. Our cars are not bounded to a specific location, they are scattered across the business area in each city. You can rent them from everywhere and park them in all public parking lots within the business area. Fueling/charging, parking fees, insurance and taxes are all included in the price.

DriveNow car sharing is in Germany available in Munich, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Cologne and Hamburg. You will also be able to find us in Vienna, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Brussels and Milan.

To download Drive Now please click here: Apple / Android

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Handmade Mysteries: Lady Chastity’s Reserve

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We’re no stranger to escape rooms and our latest attempt at escaping from rooms comes at the hands of ‘Handmade Mysteries: Lady Chastity’s Reserve!”

“This immersive experience challenges you and friends with an hour of hilarious clue solving as you attempt to win Chastity’s fabled aphrodisiac wine. Win and wet your whistle, or fail and wet your pants.”

Book your tickets here!

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Netflix Movie Studio!?

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Netflix has been producing original content at a steady pace, both in the movie space and in the tv space. Whilst receiving praise from audiences and critics alike, prestige has eluded them. Deadline are reporting, in a power move to attract bigger names to the service, they have hired Scott Stuber, a HUGE hollywood movie producer.(Ted 2, Patriots Day, Kill The Messenger)

Netflix wants to be a movie studio and is going the right way about it. However, Bloomberg reports that Netflix has an uphill battle as many filmmakers develop their projects for the big screen and Netflix’s business plan of same day theatre/streaming release doesn’t sit well with theatres.

Can Netflix repeat its TV success on the big screen? We will have to wait and see.

To download Netflix please click here Apple / Android

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Expensive Movie Rentals?!

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It seems like there’s going to be a reduction from the time a movie is at the cinema to when it’s in your home….Warner Bros would be cool with people renting a movie 2 weeks after cinematic release as long as they pay a $50 fee. Fox are offering a 30-40 day turn around with a $30 price tag. Universal doesn’t have a price but has suggested 20 days before available to rent at home.

Variety reports that due to anti-trust laws, each studio has to come to an agreement with each theatre chain individually. Who are scared that people won’t come to the cinema if this happens, the demand is that the 90 day gap between cinema release and debut on Blu Ray stays as is for at least 5 years.

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Twitter removes @ replies!

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Twitter have gone a way to giving you more for your 140 characters – by removing the @username with replies. So as well as pictures not taking up precious space, or quotes, now @ names won’t either. With the name of the person you’re replying to appearing above the tweet. With more than 1 person appearing like so: “”Replying to @username and 2 others.” any others will have a “click to see more” tab.

If you wish to tag anyone else you will still have to type their name and use up precious space. You can add up to 50 people to a convo, but this has had people trolling the feature:

 

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Nimuno Loops!

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We tried some really cool tape in the office this past week called Nimuno Loops!

Nimuno Loops:

Imagine being able to build around corners, on curved surfaces, or even onto the sides of that sailing ship you’ve just spent hours building. You forgot to engineer a point of attachment for that sweet dinosaur-smashing cannon? No problem. Snip a length of Nimuno Loops, stick it on the hull, mount your cannon and be on yarr way. Compatible with most toy block systems like Lego® Blocks, Mega Bloks & Kreo.

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