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...The allure of the streaming entertainment era is the opportunity to consume shows and music à la carte. Media mergers and acquisitions should proceed similarly....
...The need for such satire is, alas, only going to increase. Default rates remain mild....
...It is not just that paying a la carte risks costing customers more....
...Alas, attempting to be both the ultimate superhero clash and the prelude to a new series does not make for a happy marriage....
...Alas, here the flaw had nothing to do with technology but with the fact that, if you are lifted up so far from land, the view from the top is a shocking anticlimax — the horizon looks pretty much the same...
...The stocks have outperformed the S&P 500 in recent years and, alas, none looks especially cheap....
...The match-up of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, one a pop-punk star fresh from rehab, the other a jazzy MOR chanteuse, proves more bizarre on paper than in the studio, alas....
...Google is on the verge of unveiling an à la carte subscription service for some of YouTube’s specialist video channels, to finance a broader range of content and add a second revenue stream to the digital...
...The next head of Microsoft will not be given carte blanche when they start....
...However, Mr Wells and others insist that subscription music services, such as Spotify and Rhapsody, are providing incremental revenues, rather than cannibalising “à la carte” download services, of which...
...These new options for “over-the-top” internet-delivered video represent a sufficiently heightened risk to traditional pay-TV platforms for Credit Suisse to have downgraded the US entertainment industry last...
...Today, it costs little to buy an entry-level laptop capable of running day-to-day business applications, reasonably demanding graphics or computational software, and even entertainment applications....
...At M&C Saatchi, client entertainment budgets have been cut by about 30 per cent....
...Over The Top refers to a new range of internet-based entertainment and information services being fed into televisions that vault over the top of services being provided by the established cable and satellite...
...Alas, there still remains no way to get all messages from Yahoo, Mac.com, Gmail, AOL and your business account on one screen page....
...“Should it be published, I feel that carte blanche will be given to anybody who wants to make a quick bit of money,” Ms Rowling said....
...Alas, the same thing can’t be said of the judge, who readily accepted Trillanes’s apology – despite the fact that Trillanes and his supporters were hardly model defendants....
...It helps that Japan has emerged as an entertainment brand in its own right....
...British consumer were, alas, unable to access these websites even though the EU in theory at least boasts an open and borderless market for every product and service under the sun....
...Alas, John Witt, the Mandarin group’s finance director, tells Observer that the Mandarin Grill – the famously dark, cavernous restaurant where many an entertainment budget was busted – will re-open with...
...Alas, MBNA refused to confirm or deny, leaving holders no option but to keep those scissors poised. mudlark@ft.com...
...In a similar effort to avoid any criticism of having a good time in a good cause, entertainment was limited to a harpist....
...Verizon, Comcast: rumble in the sticks The battle for the eyeballs of entertainment consumers has converged on a 320-year-old hamlet in Pennsylvania....
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