Producer Jason Blum perfected the model for high-concept low-budget horror, and he used it to aid in M. Night Shyamalan’s creative comeback.
If the scariest thing imaginable is the unseen lurking threat you can only imagine, perhaps horror is the movie genre best suited for minimalism. High-concept, low-budget horror is at the core of super producer Jason Blum’s wheelhouse, and it’s the reason he nearly always makes a box office killing.
Mobile banking app Qapital is adding the ability to routinely set aside part of your income for taxes.
Nobody enjoys filing taxes. But for freelancers and contractors, the process is even more complicated, in part because they can be required to pay estimated taxes on a quarterly basis, and face steep penalties if they miss those deadlines. For workers beholden to these rules, the last quarterly payday of 2015 is right around the corner—on Tuesday.
Etsy is inviting manufacturers to join a new marketplace that will provide sellers with means of production.
Etsy, an online marketplace for artisanal goods, announced Monday that it was launching Etsy Manufacturing, a new service that will match manufacturers with Etsy sellers who need help to produce their wares. Heather Jassy, SVP of members and community at Etsy, wrote in a company blog post that the new marketplace will “make it easier for our sellers to source responsible production assistance when they need it.”
The Men’s Wearhouse founder has raised $50 million and is working with Salesforce on the technology.
It’s been a busy year for George Zimmer, the man best known for launching Men’s Wearhouse in 1973.
The payment-processing company behind companies such as Lyft will let you make purchases without having to awkwardly fill out online forms.
You may not have heard of Stripe; but you’ve used it if you’ve called a car on Lyft, ordered a delivery on Postmates, or backed a project on Kickstarter. The young company that processes billions of dollars a year for tens of thousands of businesses and startups today introduced Relay, a service that adds one-click buying to mobile apps, most notably Twitter. It also lets people buy straight from the ads that run in mobile apps.
A federal court declared that Prince’s label should not have issued a takedown letter over a YouTube video featuring one of his songs.
A federal appeals court delivered a blow to the music industry today, ruling that a case brought against Prince and Universal Music Group for misuse of copyright law can move forward to trial. The decision could be a significant one for both YouTube, where the copyright issue originated, as well as Facebook, which was already racking up 4 billion video views per day back in April.
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