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...They don’t have the resources, esprit de corps or a history to look back on.”...
...Sony a7R V, £3,999 @rhodri...
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...Klein’s Churchill Capital Corp IV, which is merging with Tesla-wannabe Lucid, had the largest short interest of any Spac, at $373m....
...ABS-CBN, which is controlled by the Lopez family, broadcasts the country’s most popular Tagalog-language newscast....
...core to our industry’s commitment to the players we serve and disingenuous third parties undermine this when they abuse in-game systems for unauthorised and illegal purposes,” said a spokesperson for the Entertainment...
...The developer of Fortnite has come up with a novel solution to the entertainment industry’s perennial problem of finding the next hit, as the blockbuster success of its “battle royale” shooter game begins...
...said Mr Lopez, a former chief executive of AMC Entertainment, the cinema owner, and hotel chain Extended Stay America....
...The operating group was founded just over a year ago and is led by Gerry Lopez, a former executive at AMC Entertainment, the movie-theatre owner, hotel chain Extended Stay America, and Starbucks....
...For America’s biggest gaming empire, Harrah’s Entertainment, the rebuke could not have come at a worse time....
...(FT) Apple v WeChat The biggest rival to Apple’s flagship smartphone in China is a messaging app that allows users to pay for food, hail cabs, stream video and more....
...Filmed entertainment increased 13 per cent thanks to hits such as Sing, an animated musical comedy....
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
...Design is critical, and there are multiple solutions to the 3D jigsaw puzzle of business class: yin-yang; staggered herringbone; “stacked-V”. Jamco’s DoveTail seat has a layout like parquet flooring....
...Caesars Entertainment, a $30bn deal that closed in January of 2008, filed for bankruptcy protection on January 15, endangering TPG’s $1.74bn investment in the gambling and resort company....
...V: Our stakes are small, but our cause is just. Did not David, a mere boy, defeat the mighty Goliath?...
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...Take Two Entertainment's GTA V sold $800m worth of copies on its first day last September....
...This article has been amended since first publication to show correct figures for the chart labelled “Traditional v online TV”. Back to the top of the page...
...Michael Lopez-Alegria, a US former commander of the space station, points out the station has withstood many crises....
...Unlike Hollywood-style sagas such as Grand Theft Auto V, the game largely dispenses with storyline and a lengthy single-player mode....
...‘Titanfall’ for Xbox One (Rating: 4/5) The launch of Grand Theft Auto V last year gave the video-games industry another opportunity to congratulate itself on becoming a grown-up form of entertainment....
...There are the grandiose titles – Grand Theft Auto V or Assassins Creed IV Black Flag. There is the testosterone, the crash-bang-wallop action, and the big budgets – GTA V cost $270m....
...Grand Theft Auto V has broken the sales record set last year by Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty to become the fastest-grossing entertainment franchise in the world....
...King Digital Entertainment filed its paperwork with the Securities Exchange Commission on Tuesday for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange....
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