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...It is just as otherworldly and fabulous as the rest of the oasis....
...Jannah, whose interiors were designed by owner Anna Trzebinski, bridges a gap in Lamu between the more rustic private rentals and hotel stays, of which there are few....
...The backdrop is Jnane Tamsna, a hotel in Marrakech’s Palmeraie oasis, with candlelit group dinners and trips to the 11th-century Medina....
...Butter-yellow walls rise up two or three storeys, entirely enclosing the baths complex in its urban oasis. The two indoor pools are kept at 38C and 36C....
...“We love [media] content, so . . . in the physical world buying studio space.”...
...What A studio in a purpose-built block with en-suite bathroom. Why The block includes a fitness suite, private cinema, and gaming room....
...They need to find passive income, a spread of property, rentals, shares and investments, to yield a decent income down the line . . ....
...Since the Arab spring began in 2010, Jordan has often been seen as an oasis of stability in the Middle East....
...Hook in her Oasis review in today’s FT....
...A short-term let for a five-bedroom Spanish style villa can cost up to $3,500 a day from December to February through Oasis Collections, an upmarket rental service with a presence across nine key Latin American...
...Apple charges anywhere between 99c for movie rentals and $20 for new releases, while TV shows are typically $3 for HD episodes, suggesting a range of $3m to $4m in revenues (before the studios take their...
...Verizon and Coinstar, owner of the Redbox DVD rental service, are teaming up to take on Netflix....
...“We believe TV studios are more willing than ever to license content to Netflix and there is a lot of content still available,” said Anthony DiClemente, an analyst with Barclays Capital....
...Films still help drive each new video distribution platform, as Netflix, the DVD and online video rental service, in particular has shown most recently....
...YouTube said it had been beta-testing a film rental service since January. Google has been searching for a breakthrough with YouTube since acquiring the video site for $1.65bn in 2006....
...Hollywood studios....
...For Netflix, the pay-TV industry is as ripe for revolution as the DVD rental market was a decade ago....
...Hollywood suffers from a sharp drop in DVD sales, long the profit-driver for studios, and now faces stiff competition from low-cost rental vendors such as Redbox....
...YouTube is in talks with leading movie studios about introducing a rental service for films that would be streamed from its site, according to people close to the negotiations....
...Last year, GI, which has offices in London and in Menlo Park, California, put the Orchid pubs group though a pre-packaged administration to cut its rental bill....
...At The Oasis residents are inclined to spare the blushes of visiting deliverymen....
...It said Blu-ray rentals were “significantly outpacing” rentals of HD-DVDs....
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