The six giants in Silicon Valley have avoided taxes for more than 100 billion dollars in 10 years, and Amazon is the most serious.
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1.345 film companies celebrate the New Year by holding a group to keep warm.
2. Cool Music released the "Billion Sound Machine" plan, and Tencent Music added long audio.
3. Letv. com: It is proposed to change Dahua Institute as the auditing institution for financial statements and internal control in 2019.
4. The Aauto Quicker F round of financing led by Tencent is about to be settled, with a post-investment valuation of 28.6 billion US dollars.
5. Tea Reading under the Reading Group launched the "Game Open Platform".
6. Avatar 2 has been shot in person: it will be released in 2021.
7. The Syrian documentary "For Samar" won the british independent film awards Prize.
8. Britain launched an antitrust investigation into Google’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker.
9. According to the study, the six giants in Silicon Valley have avoided taxes of more than 100 billion dollars in 10 years, and Amazon is the most serious.
Domestic information
1.345 film companies celebrate the New Year by holding a group to keep warm.
According to the professional version of Cat’s Eye, up to now, 59 new films have been put on file, including 50 domestic films and 9 imported films. Although the number of films scheduled for New Year’s Eve is not as high as 64 in the previous year, and the sound of film and television in the cold winter has not subsided since this year, the film companies are still active in the layout of New Year’s Eve files. According to the reporter’s incomplete statistics, a total of 345 film companies have devoted themselves to the New Year’s Eve files, including production, joint production, distribution, joint distribution and assistance in promotion. (beijing business today)
2. The Internet Office and other three departments jointly issued new regulations: AI fake audio and video shall not be released at will from next year.
Recently, the National Internet Information Office, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the State Administration of Radio and Television jointly issued the Regulations on the Administration of Internet Audio and Video Information Services, which will take effect on January 1, 2020. The "Regulations" clarify that network audio and video information service providers should establish and improve the rumor dispelling mechanism, and find that users of network audio and video information services use false images and audio and video generation technologies based on deep learning and virtual reality to make, publish and spread rumors, and should take corresponding rumor dispelling measures in time, and report relevant information to the departments of network information, culture and tourism, radio and television for the record. (China Youth Network)
3. Letv. com: It is proposed to change Dahua Institute as the auditing institution for financial statements and internal control in 2019.
Letv.com announced that the company decided to hold an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on December 18th to review the Proposal on Changing Accounting Firms. Letv. com said that the company received a letter from Dahua Institute on October 15th. According to the Agreement signed by Dahua Institute and Lixin Institute, Lixin’s original audit team was transferred to Dahua as a whole, and the related audit business projects executed by the business team were undertaken by Dahua. The company intends to propose to change Dahua Institute as the company’s 2019 annual financial statements and internal control audit institution.
4. Tea Reading under the Reading Group launched the "Game Open Platform"
Tea Reading, a female reading product under the Reading Group, announced the launch of an "open platform for games". Tea Reading will jointly launch the first cooperation of the "open platform for games" with "New Swordsman’s Love Tour". The two sides will cooperate in terms of traffic portal opening and plot content support. In the future, the content characteristics of tea reading will be further developed, and essay-writing activities will be launched around the well-known game element "Forget Worry Pub IP" of "New Swordsman’s Love Tour". (36Kr)
5. The Aauto Quicker F round of financing led by Tencent is about to be settled, with a post-investment valuation of $28.6 billion.
Aauto Quicker will complete the last round of financing before IPO in the near future. This round of financing is led by Tencent, followed by Boyu Capital, Yunfeng Fund, Temasek and Sequoia. This F-round financing amounted to nearly $3 billion, and Tencent invested about 2 billion. At present, Aauto Quicker and Tencent are still negotiating the details of the final terms, and it is expected to close this month. After the investment is completed, Aauto Quicker’s post-investment valuation will reach US$ 28.6 billion, and Tencent will hold nearly 20% of the shares in Aauto Quicker. (later Gatepost)
6. Cool Music released the "Billion Sound Machine" plan, and Tencent Music added long audio.
Kuwo Music, a subsidiary of Tencent Music Entertainment Group, released the "Billion Sound Machine" all-field long audio fundraising plan. The program is aimed at graphic, self-media, podcast, music and video creators, and will support the creation of long audio content with billions of resources and funds to promote the commercialization of high-quality content.
Foreign information
1. Avatar 2 has been shot by real people: it will be released in 2021.
Recently, Avatar official and Jon Landau producer disclosed the latest trends of the film. It is reported that at present, the crew has completed the live-action shooting in New Zealand, and the work will be completed in 2019, and it will continue to be put into shooting in February next year. (fast technology)
2. The Syrian documentary "For Samar" won the british independent film awards Prize.
At the british independent film awards Awards just held, René E Zellweger won the Best Actor, hugh laurie won the Best Film for Summer and Parasite won the Best Foreign Language Film.
The Syrian documentary "For Sama" won four awards at the British Independent Film Awards-Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Documentary and Best Editing. The film tells the story of the impact of the Syrian war on local women. Previously, For Sama won the "Best Documentary" awards at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and South by Southwest Film Festival.
3. Britain launched an antitrust investigation into Google’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker.
According to foreign media reports, CMA, the British antitrust agency, announced that it is conducting an antitrust investigation on Google’s acquisition of Looker Data Sciences, a big data analysis company. CMA said it was evaluating whether the deal would harm fair competition in the UK or other markets. At the same time, the agency also invited all parties to comment on the acquisition transaction before December 20. Google announced in June this year that it would acquire Looker, a big data analysis company, for $2.6 billion in cash, which is Google’s largest M&A transaction in the public cloud market.
4. The nomination list of Oscar and the 47th Annie Award in animation industry was announced.
Nominations for the Oscar and the 47th Annie Award in animation were announced. Frozen II and The Lost Link were nominated for 8 out of 13 animated feature film awards respectively, leading this year’s Annie Award.
In addition, Netflix animation Klaus: The Secret of Christmas received seven nominations, while Dragon Trainer 3, Toy Story 4 and French independent animation I Lost My Body received six nominations respectively.
Nomination for Best Animated Film:
Frozen II.
Dragon master 3
Klaus: The Secret of Christmas
The lost link
Toy Story 4
Nomination for Best Independent Animated Film:
Bunuel in the Tortoise Labyrinth
I lost my body
The proprietress of primary school students
Promare.
Son of the weather
5. Ghibli animation can be purchased in digital version for the first time.
All 21 works of Ghibli Animation Studio will be available for digital edition purchase for the first time in history, and online platforms in the United States and Canada-including Apple TV, Amazon VOD, Vudu, Google Play, Sony, Microsoft, etc.-will be launched on December 17th.
In May 2020, all Ghibli’s works will be exclusively launched on HBO Max. This is also the first time in the history of Ghibli’s works that can be viewed online.
6.2019 "Gotham Independent Film Award" was awarded, and "Marriage Story" became the winner.
This year’s Gotham Independent Film Awards, Marriage Story became the biggest winner, winning the best film, best actor, best script and audience awards. Awkwafina won the best actress with The Farewell.
Complete prize list:
Best film: Marriage Story
Best actress: Awkwafina The Farewell.
Best actor: adam driver’s Marriage Story
Best Breakthrough Series (40 minutes or more in a single episode): Colored Glasses
Best breakthrough drama series (single episode less than 40 minutes): "Writing Youth with Pen"
Best Breakthrough Director: Laurie de clermont-Tonnaire’s Wild Horse.
Best Breakthrough Actor: Taylor Russell’s The Wave
Best screenplay: noah baumbach’s Marriage Story.
Best documentary: American Factory
Audience Award: Marriage Story
7. According to the study, the six giants in Silicon Valley have avoided taxes of more than 100 billion dollars in 10 years, and Amazon is the most serious.
On the 3rd Beijing time, a new study pointed out that the "tax gap" of the six technology giants in Silicon Valley in the past 10 years totaled more than 100 billion US dollars.
Fair Tax Mark is a British organization that provides good tax behavior certification for enterprises. The agency assessed the global tax payment of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft from 2010 to 2019, and called these six companies "the six giants of Silicon Valley". (Sina America)
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