AUTOMOTIVE Waze Carpool Google’s navigation app Waze, which was acquired almost four years ago by Google for $1.1 billion, has launched Waze Carpool, a separate app from Waze, as a pilot in Israel, and Brazil. How it works: Waze Carpool lets drivers schedule passenger pickups along their planned routes in exchange for a few bucks worth of gas money from riders, even to just speed up their commutes with access to the carpool lane. Riders can book at the last minute or reserve in advance. To discourage cancellations, rider and driver profiles share personal information that the users have agreed to supply from and LinkedIn. Additionally, Waze is debating whether to show ads to users of Waze Carpool. At present, the service does not have any way to glean revenue.

BROADCAST Sinclair/Nexstar/ Univision Local Media has joined with Sinclair Broadcasting and Nexstar Media Univision Group in a new consortium to promote spectrum aggregation, innovation and monetization and enhance their abilities to compete in the wireless data transmission sector. In other words, focusing on but not limited to the development of the next-gen TV standard, ATSC 3.0.

BROADWAY Ticket Sales Box office grosses, which have been climbing since 2013, rose 5.5% to $1.449 billion, a new high, according to figures released by the Broadway League.

CORPORATE Apple/Nokia Apple and Nokia settled a legal dispute last week over the right of the iPhone maker to use patents and other intellectual property owned by the Finnish telecommunications company. The deal: Apple will start paying royalties to Nokia from the second quarter of 2017, Apple would begin stocking some of Nokia’s digital health products in its stores and the Finnish company will provide some of its mobile network infrastructure products and services to the American company.

DATA Samba TV/Kantar Media research entity Kantar Millward Brown is partnering with TV analytics firm Millward Brown Samba TV to offer “a single source measurement solution for advertising effectiveness.” How it works: Kantar will utilize its Ignite panel, which includes 8 million PC users and 3 million mobile users, in tandem with Samba TVs 13.5 million smart TV and connected device households.

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FAST FOOD Burgers Top burger chain U.S. sales (2016), according to Technomic, as reported by The Wall Street Journal: Burger Chain Billions McDonald’s $36.4 Burger King $9.4 Wendy’s $8.9 Sonic Driven In $4.5 Jack in the Box $3.5

FINANCE Amazon Amazon.com became the first stock to breach $1,000 last week. Google was number two at $996.12 a share.

S&P 500 The S&P 500 climbed to another record high to its twentieth record of the year, surpassing 2,400+ at the close of May.

GAMING Nintendo/Zelda Rumors are circulating that Nintendo plans to bring its video franchise The Legend of Zelda to smartphones later this year. Cost is unknown at this time. However, Nintendo charged about $10 for players to download the full version of sibling Mario smartphone game and offers in-app purchases for its other games.

Sony/Mobile Game Sony is releasing the first title, Everybody’s Golf, from a new unit focusing on smartphone games, initially targeting Japan, where its PlayStation 4 console is flagging.

GLOBAL Ireland The New York Times reported that Ireland’s ruling Fine Gael elected Leo Varadkar as its new leader, paving the way for him to become the country’s first openly gay prime minister.

Sweden/Airbnb Sweden has listed its entire countryside on Airbnb as a place anyone can hike, camp or even pick mushrooms and berries for free.

Wonder Woman/ The government of Lebanon has banned the theatrical Wonder Woman from Lebanon being shown in the country. Note: Lebanon shares its southern border and decades of acrimony with Israel; the two countries went to war in 2006 and it officially boycotts Israeli products and bars its citizens from traveling there. However, never before has the country banned films that Gal Gadot, the film’s female star, including installments of the Fast and Furious series and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, has appeared in.

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MOBILE Smartphone/ U.S. smartphone market share for the first quarter of 2017, according to Market Share Counterpoint Research, as reported by The Wall Street Journal: Smartphone Market Share Apple 30% Samsung 21% LG 19% ZTE 9% Alcatel 6% Motorola 5% Other 10%

MOVIES Screenvision Screenvision, the nation’s second largest seller of movie advertising, has retained investment bank Moelis & Co. to explore the possible sale of the ad firm.

MUSIC Vivendi/Universal Rumors are circulating that French media conglomerate Vivendi is contemplating selling a minority stake in its Universal Music Group – a departure from its longstanding opposition to selling any part of -based Universal. Note: In 2016, the industry’s global revenue from recorded music grew by 6% to $15.7 billion, the largest year-over-year gain since the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry started tracking the market in 1997.

PERSONALITIES Gregg Allman Gregg Allman, a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, has passed away. He was 69 years old.

Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Brzezinski, security advisor to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, has passed away. He was 89 years old.

Henderson Island A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported that Henderson Island, an uninhabited South Pacific atoll located between Chile and New Zealand, possesses an estimated 17.6 tons of man-made debris on the shores, which translates into 38 million pieces of trash.

Memorial Day National motor club AAA projects that 40 million Americans, including 34.6 million in cars, traveled 50 miles or more during the three-day holiday weekend, the highest volume since 2005.

Sir Roger Moore Sir Roger Moore, the longest running James Bond, featured as the lead for 7 of the franchise’s theatricals (beginning with 1973’s Live and Let Die and ending with 1985’s A View to A Kill), has passed away. He was 89 years old.

Ringling Brothers After 146 years, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus is no more.

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PUBLISHING Newspaper According to the latest annual Pew Research Center study, in 2016 total U.S. daily Circulation newspaper circulation – which combines print and digital – fell an estimated 8% to 35 million for weekday and 38 million for Sunday. The estimated newspaper ad revenue for 2016 was $18 billion – a 10% decrease from 2015.

Sports Illustrated/ For the first time in its history, Sports Illustrated is partnering with a swimwear RAJ Swimwear design house, RAJ Swim, to create its own swim and active apparel collections. To coincide with the launch of the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, the collection will be available in early 2018, with a first look scheduled for this summer.

RETAIL Amazon Store Amazon has opened up a brick and mortar Amazon Store in New York’s Columbus Circle luxury shopping environ. The Columbus Circle store is Amazon’s seventh physical retail store and the first of three planned for the New York area before the end of the summer. A second is planned for 34th street in Midtown Manhattan with a third set to open in the nearby Westfield Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus NJ. Primary goal: sell books but along that journey, other Amazon products.

Michael Kors High-end designer fashion chain Michael Kors announced that it will shutter 100 to 125 stores. As of April 1, the company had 827 full price or outlet stores and another 133 licensed, for a total of 960 worldwide.

Payless Shoe Payless Shoe Source, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April, is Source asking a federal bankruptcy judge for permission to close up to 408 additional stores. Taken together, the 800-some locations would represent about 20% of Payless’s total locations worldwide.

RadioShack Electronic retailer RadioShack announced that it has closed more than 1,000 stores during Memorial Day weekend. The company will continue to operate 72 company owned and about 500 dealer owned stores.

SOCIETY Gerrymandering/ The Supreme Court struck down two North Carolina congressional districts, ruling North Carolina that lawmakers had violated the Constitution by relying too heavily on race in drawing them – in other words, packing black voters into a few districts in order to dilute their voting power.

Visa Overstays More than 600,000 foreign travelers who legally entered the United States in 2016 overstayed their visas and remained in the country at the end of the year, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Those “visa overstays” represented only 1.25% of the 50 million travelers who arrived through the nation’s airports and seaports. People who overstay their visas make up an estimated 40% of the 11 million undocumented immigrants who live in the U.S.

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SPORTS NBA/Golden State NBA Franchise Golden State Warriors became the first team in league history to Warriors start the playoffs with a 12-0 record and have not lost since April 10, the next to last game of the regular season.

THEME PARKS Disney/Avatar Disney opened its newest attraction Pandora The World of Avatar, a $500 million attraction at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom near Orlando, FL. The attraction is based on James Cameron’s 2009 theatrical Avatar, which grossed nearly $2.8 billion.

VIDEO ABC/Nexstar/OTT TV station group Nexstar reached a new OTT deal with ABC that covers DirecTVNow, YouTube TV, Sony PlayStation Vue and ABC TV Everywhere. In addition, ABC extended affiliation agreements for nine stations, which entered into an OTT master agreement.

DirecTV/EST Satcaster DirecTV has added an electronic sell-through (EST) option that lets its satellite TV customers purchase movies and TV titles.

Dish/Alexa Dish announced that it now allows consumers to use Amazon Echo’s Alexa to control any generation of Hopper DVR or a Wally satellite receiver. Capabilities: Alexa can search for content, change the channel, play, fast forward, rewind and pause or resume playback. Also, its universal search functionality enables people to use Alexa to search across live TV, DVR recordings, Dish’s on demand catalog and Netflix.

Facebook Facebook has signed deals with millennial focused news and entertainment creators Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to make shows for its upcoming video service, which will feature long and short form content with ad breaks.

Facebook/Audience Facebook introduced a new tool, Audience Direct, designed to help media Direct companies sell video advertising on their own websites, apps and other digital properties in a more automated or programmatic way. How it works: the new tool lets publishers sell their ad space directly to advertisers using Facebook’s people based system.

Facebook/ Facebook unveiled plans to open up a neuroscience center called Center for Neuroscience Marketing Science Innovation, whose mission will be to utilize the facility to conduct neuroscience research that will help advertisers, publishers, brands and tech companies better understand what type of content resonates across platforms and devices.

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VIDEO(cont’d) Microsoft/Mixer Microsoft has launched its own videogame live-streaming service called Mixer, which will be free for Windows 10 computers, Xbox consoles and mobile devices running iOS, Android or Windows. Microsoft plans to sell $5.99 monthly subscriptions to its streamers’ channels as a way for viewers to support their favorites.

Pinterest/Promoted Pinterest is adding an autoplay function to its Promoted Video offering. In Videos addition to running in people’s home feeds, videos will also now autoplay in search results.

Snap/Stories Custom Snapchat is rolling out a fancier version of its popular Stories feature. The new custom offering makes it possible for users to share geo-fenced stories with select friends.

Viacom/The Package Viacom is dialoguing with pay TV operators to offer a low priced entertainment oriented digital TV package of networks. The effort would have no news or sports programming and cost between $10 and $20 a month.

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DEADLIEST STORMS BY U.N. CLASSIFICATION

The U.N. has officially declared the following the world’s all-time deadliest storms:

CATEGORY TIMELINE FATALITIES DESCRIPTION

Tropical Cyclone November 12-13 1970 300,000 Occurred in Bangladesh (at time of incident, East Pakistan).

Tornado April 26, 1989 1,300 Occurred in Manikganj district, Bangladesh.

Indirect Lightning Strike November 2, 1994 469 Occurred in Dronka, Egypts. The tanks collapse, sending flood-waters and blazing fuel into the village.

Direct Lightning Strike December 23, 1975 21 Occurred in Zimbabwe (at time of incident, Rhodesia). It was determined a lightning flash struck the village.

Hailstorm April 30, 1888 246 Occurred near Moradabad, India. Hailstones as large as goose eggs and oranges struck the town.

ROLLING STONE’S 10 GREATEST FESTIVALS (OF THE LAST 50 YEARS)

CONCERT YEAR Monterey Pop 1967 Woodstock 1969 Concert for Bangladesh 1971 Wattstax 1972 Live Aid 1985 Glastonbury 1994 Lollapalooza 1994 Coachella 2004 Ultra Music Festival 2008 Bonnaroo 2009

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TOP PAY TV PROVIDERS IN THE U.S. (CLOSE OF FIRST QUARTER 2017)

CATEGORY PROVIDER SUBSCRIBERS Cable Comcast 22,549,000 Charter (Time Warner, Bright House) 17,147,000 Altice (Cablevision, Suddenlink) 3,500,000 Mediacom 832,000 Cable ONE 307,187 Others (private companies) 4,275,000 Total 48,610,187

Satellite DirecTV 21,012,000 Dish 12,173,000 Total 33,185,000

Telco Verizon FiOS 4,681,000 AT&T U-verse 4,048,000 Frontier 1,065,000 Total 9,794,000

Internet Delivered Sling TV 1,355,000 DirecTV Now 375,000 Total 1,730,000

TOTAL - 93,319,187

Source: Leichtman Research Group

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TOP BROADBAND PROVIDERS IN THE U.S. (CLOSE OF FIRST QUARTER 2017)

CATEGORY PROVIDER SUBSCRIBERS Cable Comcast 25,131,000 Charter (Time Warner, Bright House) 23,051,000 Altice (Cablevision, Suddenlink) 4,002,000 Mediacom 1,179,000 WOW (WideOpenWest) 729,000 Cable ONE 523,327 Others (private companies) 4,830,000 Total 59,445,327

Telco AT&T 15,695,000 Verizon 7,011,000 CenturyLink 5,945,000 Frontier 4,164,000 Windstream 1,047,600 Cincinnati Bell 307,400 FairPoint 305,353 Total 34,475,353

TOTAL - 93,920,680

Source: Leichtman Research Group

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