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...One way that has come is in the form of great deals on loan portfolios, as lenders look to boost their liquidity after the turmoil at First Republic and Silicon Valley Bank....
...Earlier this year, it struck an agreement with Major League Baseball to broadcast Friday night games, joining Silicon Valley peers such as Amazon in taking on traditional broadcasters for the rights to live...
...This ever-increasing choice of content means less of an audience for the Emmys and other mainstays of the traditional US broadcasters, CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX....
...A new operations centre in Southaven, Mississippi, would be mostly staffed by hires from the area, Google said, adding that the roles would be customer-service related....
...Thursday: Broadcaster ITV reports quarterly results before the UK market opens. Later, in Silicon Valley, Advanced Micro Devices hosts its 2020 Financial Analyst Day....
...Analysis noted in a report published last month entitled “Peak Football Revenues and Post-boom scenarios”, last year’s auction for Premier League domestic rights saw a 10 per cent decline in the total paid by broadcasters...
...“The challenge was changing the mindset of a traditional broadcaster. They would say, ‘Whoa, why are you spending all this money on all these engineers?’”...
...Earlier this month, Raine advised German broadcaster ProSieben on a €53m funding round from French and Italian networks TF1 Group and Mediaset in its digital video network, Studio71....
...Silicon Valley is not just straying into traditional Hollywood territory....
...Google has accused the movie industry’s trade body of mounting a secret campaign to censor the internet, in a revival of the tensions that flared up between Silicon Valley and Hollywood over a proposed US...
...On the west bankof the Mississippi river, St Louis is home to big US companies such as Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Ralston Purina and Anheuser-Busch....
...Flipboard, the digital magazine app, has raised $50m from investors including Rizvi Traverse Management and Goldman Sachs, valuing the Silicon Valley company at $800m....
...Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has led the current round after the Silicon Valley VC first invested in Shazam in 2009....
...“We are talking to broadcasters all over the world,” says Amy Moynihan Heyward, co-president of A Squared Entertainment....
...Broadcasters, advertisers and Major League Soccer team owners are betting that 2010 will be the year that football scores with mainstream America. The stakes are high....
...Sezmi, a Silicon Valley start-up, is offering an internet-connected set-top box with a digital aerial....
...software, fund management and insurance, H&F’s most prominent recent investments have included digital media company DoubleClick and the Nasdaq stock market, along with European investments such as German broadcaster...
...That choice of footwear is a subtle reminder that while Mr Smith may work for the historic US broadcaster, he is not necessarily of the place....
...Bush found themselves campaigning just blocks away from each other along the banks of the Mississippi River at Davenport, Iowa....
...Its shimmering lights looked heavenly in a valley surrounded by stark foothills etched against the dark blue sky....
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