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SANTA CLARA, November 18: Yair Landau, the former president of Sony Pictures Digital, is calling on artists around the world to animate segments of a short film he is directing and producing, in an initiative dubbed Mass Animation, backed by …

LOS ANGELES, November 18: Tom Rogers, the president and CEO of TiVo, will deliver the NATPE 2009 Newsmakers Address on January 28 at 9 a.m. at the association's annual conference in Las Vegas. His speech, entitled "Avoiding the Demise of …

SINGAPORE, November 18: SPE Networks—Asia has named three new executives to its head office in Singapore, including Kim Sang-Im taking up the newly created position of director for Korea and new media. Kim joined SPE Networks—Asia in September and already …

WINNIPEG, November 18: Peter Viner is coming out of retirement to take up the post of interim president of Canwest Global Communications' broadcasting division, replacing Kathy Dore. In August, Dore announced her intention to leave the company when her contract …

MUNICH, November 18: Michael Bütow, the senior VP of international production for ProSiebenSat.1, has been tapped to lead the group’s efforts in producing German productions and co-productions outside of Germany. Bütow will be responsible for both fiction and non-fiction programming …

NEW YORK, November 18: Entrepreneur Mark Cuban, the cofounder of HDTV and the owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, has been charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to published reports, the SEC alleges …

LOS ANGELES, November 18: G4 Investigates: Tech Fight Clubs, airing on G4 on December 13 at 10 p.m., takes a look at real underground clubs in Silicon Valley where grown men gather to beat each other up. The special focuses …

REDMOND, November 18: Microsoft is promising a revolution in home entertainment with its New Xbox 360 Experience, an update to the Xbox 360 gaming console that will be released tomorrow that allows for the delivery of an expanded range of …

LOS ANGELES, November 18: Production has begun on a new western-themed original movie for Hallmark Channel titled Kingdom Come, which stars Dean Cain in the lead role. The movie is being shot in Vancouver and tells the story of a …

SUNNYVALE, November 18: Yahoo! has embarked on the search for a new CEO, with Jerry Yang set to step down as soon as a successor is named. The announcement by the Internet search giant yesterday sent its share price up …