Peter Chernin on Hollywood, Asia Growth and Not Yahoo: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

Here’s an entertainment exec who loves the Internet. Don’t all stare at once.

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Founder
The Chernin Group and Chernin Entertainment

Peter Chernin is one of Hollywood’s top players and execs. The former senior News Corp. exec is now a movie producer — his first effort “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is a big hit. But he’s also been increasingly active in media investing in Asia of late and has a lot to say about the global nature of entertainment in the digital age.

Posts With Peter Chernin

Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential Future Conflicts (Or Closer Cooperation)

There is a growing feeling that the social communications companies are on a product collision course, with a possible troubled or perhaps more attractive result.
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Yahoo Hopes to Fight Back at Activist Shareholder Third Point With More New Board Members of Its Own

In the battle for the board, Yahoo is not sitting still.
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Peter Chernin on Hollywood, Asia Growth and Not Yahoo: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

Here’s an entertainment exec who loves the Internet. Don’t all stare at once.
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Peter Chernin: Highlights From AsiaD (Video)

Hulu was built to compete with YouTube. Now the studios need it to compete with Netflix, says Rupert Murdoch’s former top lieutenant. Also: What about that Yahoo deal?
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Peter Chernin Explains What Happened to Hulu, and Why He’s in Asia

As News Corp.’s longtime chief operating officer, Peter Chernin oversaw the conglomerate’s movie and TV operations, as well as most of its forays into digital media. Now he’s doing the same thing on his own, with an eye toward Asia in particular.
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The Globalization of D: All Things Digital Begins Now

And so our international expansion of D: All Thing Digital starts and we could not be more proud that it begins here in Hong Kong, with AsiaD. So why Asia? It seemed the most obvious choice for us, as we looked at the global landscape for tech.
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Not So Much on a Microsoft Bid for Yahoo (They’re Crazy, But Not That Crazy)

Is this investment-banker-hype week and no one told me? It certainly seems so from all the almost ridonkulous rumors about everyone and their mother considering making a bid for Yahoo. Microsoft is not.
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Final AsiaD Speakers: Apple’s Phil Schiller and Former VP Al Gore

AsiaD is now ready for launch, with a little taste of Apple and the Veep.
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News Byte

Another $85 Million for Tumblr

Tumblr, the booming blogging platform that has yet to spend much time generating revenue, now has even more time before it has to get down to business. The four-year-old company has raised an $85 million round led by Greylock Partners and Insight Venture Partners, along with new money from Peter Chernin and Richard Branson. Earlier investors Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and Sequoia Capital re-upped as well.

Yahoo for Sale: Possible Bidders Circling — Including Marc Andreessen — as Board Pressure Mounts

As Yahoo’s board meets today to talk about what to do next, the unsettled situation at the Silicon Valley Internet giant might overtake them sooner than later.
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Hulu, Networks Close To New Deal