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...However, Nintendo, which already has licensing deals for theme parks, has warned that it will not get ahead of itself and has sounded a cautious note....
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...The new strategy has shone a spotlight on an unresolved issue that predates SoftBank’s ownership: where can Arm find new sales as its core smartphone business matures?...
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...Tencent has found itself in the government’s crosshairs this year as antitrust regulators targeted its dealmaking and the exclusive licensing deals of its music unit....
...Hong Kong’s bourse operator also snatched SGX’s derivatives licensing agreements with MSCI, the index provider, last year....
...But Reliance’s share price has been boosted by a rebound in demand for oil products, which remain its core business. Benjamin Parkin in New Delhi 3....
...“There are areas of technology where we have a lot of experience and we are open to licensing them.”...
...SGX is trying to build a more balanced platform after years of delistings and low trading volumes squeezed its equity-trading core....
...As a result, it will be “some time” before Nvidia opens up any of its existing technology for licensing, and even then it will start with a narrow selection, he added....
...Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which operates the city’s stock market, in May snatched SGX’s derivatives licensing agreements with index provider MSCI....
...While the company has been developing related technology for more than 40 years, several earlier attempts to grow its network business were scuppered after it focused on a series of wireless technologies...
...Nvidia’s deal for Arm underscores Mr Huang’s ambitions to make his company the main supplier of core technologies that power large-scale data centres — a market currently dominated by rival Intel....
...Reliance, whose core business is oil refining, has also been hit by the collapse in oil prices and demand. Its share price has fallen 16 per cent since late February....
...It also has licensing agreements in place in the Middle East, Asia and parts of Africa that bring its total store network to 16,000 worldwide....
...Tencent has had several other lucrative titles approved by Beijing since the government resumed commercial game licensing late last year....
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...She ruled the wireless chipmaker had “strangled competition” in smartphone modems to command “unreasonably high royalty rates” and ordered it to renegotiate its current licensing agreements and to license...
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