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...Netflix is not the only one in the doldrums, having benefited from people paying for home entertainment in the pandemic....
...Its shares have lost 5 per cent this year, while the benchmark S&P 500 gained 16 per cent....
...Jim Ryan, president and chief executive of Sony Interactive Entertainment, said he expected the continuing PS5 supply limitations to “ease incrementally throughout 2021” but he refused to guarantee that...
...The two biggest independent makers of the engines that power video games, Unity Technologies and Epic Games, are stepping up their financing efforts to capitalise on the booming market for interactive entertainment...
...If games are already luring Netflix’s audience away, Mr Hastings may be unnerved to learn that the interactive entertainment industry is now looking to steal his business model, too....
...and satellite providers, publishers, movie and entertainment companies and interactive home entertainment services....
...providers, publishers, movie and entertainment companies and interactive home entertainment services....
...In the US, the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average both closed 0.1 per cent higher, while the Nasdaq Composite declined 0.4 per cent....
...GVC said in a statement that based on its closing share price on Thursday of 435p, its latest offer was well above 888’s bid of 104.9p a share and represented a value of about 125.5p per Bwin share....
...Disney’s Marvel purchase “would rank as one of the most transformational studio deals of all time, frankly,” says Tuna Amobi, an analyst with S&P Capital IQ....
...“It is indeed great news that the economy put in such solid, robust growth in the third quarter,” said Andrew Wilkinson, chief market analyst at Interactive Brokers....
...The moves will make Mr Rice one of the most senior entertainment executives after Chase Carey, chief operating officer, after News Corp splits off its publishing division next year....
...Examples include higher education, hospitality and the entertainment industries....
...0/6ba83b3e-5738-11e1-869b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1mKKYs6or Shanda Interactive holders approve CEO’s $2.3bn buyout offer A majority of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. shareholders voted in favor of...
...Shanda Interactive holders approve CEO’s $2.3bn buyout offer A majority of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. shareholders voted in favor of a takeover offer from the company’s chief executive that values...
...But three or four of the largest, including Energy Future Holdings (the former TXU), Harrah’s (now Ceasars Entertainment) and Clear Channel, still may not make it....
...Among small cap s, Game Group bounced a further 64.3 per cent to 3.45p on survival hopes....
...Man has been the FTSE 100’s worst performer to date this year, losing 54 per cent....
...“We believe an acquisition of S&N by Stryker or Johnson & Johnson would not be cleared by the US antitrust authorities because the combined market shares of the hip and knee implant businesses would be anti-competitive...
...Television continues to be the one form of small-screen entertainment conducted entirely on the makers’ terms....
...Harrah’s Entertainment, the hotel and casino operator, which had been due to list on Friday, cancelled its $500m IPO, citing market conditions....
...Take-Two Interactive Software, a video game maker, rose 1.5 per cent to $14.76 after reporting earnings that beat expectations....
...Also in November, Harrah’s Entertainment withdrew a $500m offering in the US. This week, it emerged that Russia’s EuroSibEnergo has postponed a $1bn offering until next year....
...The eye-catching deal of 2009 was 888’s partnership with Harrah’s, the Las Vegas operator, yet this receives only a cursory mention....
...Interactive Brokers, a global electronic market maker and broker, added 2 per cent to $16.97 after it posted record brokerage activity last month....
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