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...Lululemon, where a pair of yoga pants can set you back £108, saw a slower start to the year in North America....
...Meta, Snapchat and TikTok are experimenting with new formats including gaming and live shopping in an effort to be less reliant on advertising....
...Other popular toy sales this holiday season include Lego, puzzles and card games, and gaming items such as the Nintendo Switch....
...Suggested reads Vietnam’s VinFast to spend up to $2bn on India car, battery plant (Nikkei Asia) Chinese companies resort to repurposing Nvidia gaming chips for AI (FT) Baidu’s bet on AI could make or...
...A serious bill would also protect America’s children from social media....
...The US sports betting market is set to grow a further 60 per cent by 2027, achieving annual gross gaming revenues of nearly $18bn, according to industry consultancy Eilers & Krejcik Gaming....
...Legal hammer Oil supermajor ExxonMobil’s case against two climate activist groups has grabbed the attention of corporate America, the FT reports....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 16. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The Writers Guild of America reached a deal with the studios in September after five months, but the SAG-AFTRA union representing actors is still on strike....
...Letter in response to this article: America’s betting laws have had ‘intended effect’ / From Bill Miller, President & Chief Executive, American Gaming Association, Washington, DC, US...
...“Young men who’ve grown up with gaming are used to doing everything on their phone, and now they can do all sorts of betting on their phone.”...
...In the void, NetEase launched Eggy Party, which it is now plotting to release to the global gaming market....
...In 2021, Teixeira purchased call options after learning that gaming company Penn National was going to acquire publicly listed Canadian media business Score, for approximately $2.2bn, prosecutors alleged...
...Wall Street and Corporate America will quietly pray the two companies will keep up the fight. A win would chasten a Biden regime that has battled industry consolidation....
...The FTC’s treatment of the deal had sharpened corporate America’s concerns that Khan is ushering in a more interventionist antitrust policy....
...Maga Inc, a pro-Trump super Pac, has booked just $6.5mn....
...“North America dominates the entire conversation about the black experience,” says game writer Chella Ramanan....
...The UK watchdog had blocked the deal in April on the grounds that it would deter growth in cloud gaming, setting the stage for Microsoft to argue its case in the UK’s appeals tribunal later this month....
...In November, we caught up with accusations by Bank of America that the games group was “killing its golden goose”, Magic: The Gathering — now it seems to be leering menacingly at its, uh, silver swan, Dungeons...
...In today’s newsletter Lina Khan has dealmakers on edge Raine bags a monster fee Deutsche Bank and good governance US trustbusters are just getting started Lina Khan and Jonathan Kanter, America’s antitrust...
...She is among the progressive antitrust officials appointed by President Joe Biden in an attempt to tackle anti-competitive conduct in corporate America....
...Games company Zynga was sidelined by the boom in mobile gaming soon after its 2011 IPO and the founder eventually took the rare step of willingly giving up control....
...Sarandos on Thursday described Netflix’s business as still in its “infancy”; it accounts for just 8 per cent of television viewing in America. But investor faith in Netflix is not what it was....
...In the Americas, its most important region, revenues rose 8 per cent to $39.8bn....
...Keywords Studios is a gaming outsourcer. It helps developers with everything including designing, testing and marketing games....
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