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...Stephanie Burns General counsel, Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) Stephanie Burns joined PlayStation, Sony’s gaming division, from Amazon having previously worked for ticket reseller StubHub...
...Sony is also building a general entertainment streaming service in India following the acquisition of Zee Entertainment last year — a market also being pursued aggressively by Netflix and Disney+....
...In May, Sony’s PlayStation announced it had taken a minority stake in the company, in a partnership in which Discord will connect into users’ consoles from early 2022....
...M3 started in 2000 with investment from Sony subsidiary So-net. After rejecting calls from activist Daniel Loeb to sell its 34 per cent stake, Sony now has a tie-up with M3 to combat the pandemic....
...As well as new hardware, Sony is also seeking to broaden the appeal of the PS4 through new services such as its PS Vue internet TV and a PS Music partnership with Spotify, the streaming company....
...just one of the partnerships set to be on show at the event....
...The reshuffle will hand more power to Michael Lynton, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and to Nicole Seligman, the Japanese group’s general counsel....
...the BMG partnership with KKR....
...In pursuit of both goals, Mr Schmidt-Holtz negotiated the 2004 merger of BMG with Sony’s record label group, creating Sony-BMG, a recorded music group second only to Vivendi’s Universal Music....
...While working for Sony BMG (now known as Sony Music) he oversaw the careers of boy bands such as Westlife and Five but also created novelty hits spun out of television programmes such as Power Rangers and...
...Vevo Arabia, a regional version of the music video website launched late last year by Universal Music, Sony Music and EMI with support from Google’s YouTube video service, is looking to launch by early 2011...
...Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström also have to pay SKr30m ($3.6m, €2.7m, £2.4m) damages to entertainment companies, including Warner, Sony, EMI, Columbia Pictures and...
...“We had a lot of calls and e-mails from people wanting to be members,” says Kanichi Yoda, the orchestra’s general manager....
...The big three labels – Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and Warner Music Group – together own about 40 per cent of MySpace Music joint venture....
...Cost-cutting under Eric Nicoli, its former executive chairman, resulted in market share losses to Universal Music and Sony BMG....
...For Sony, full ownership could allow deeper integration of music into Sony Ericsson’s mobile phones. Bertelsmann, Sony and Sony BMG declined to comment....
...The pact came about after the two artists sought and received a divorce from Sony BMG, one album short of a five-album deal....
...The partnership came at a high price for MySpace, which had to first settle a copyright lawsuit filed by Universal Music in 2006....
...Five years ago, the major music companies – Universal Music, Sony BMG, Warner Music and EMI – embraced iTunes for pioneering a legal digital music market....
...With sales of CDs declining faster than digital sales are growing, the “big four” record labels – EMI, Warner Music, Sony BMG and Universal – are under increasing pressure....
...A similar picture can be found in the music industry....
...Warner Music, Universal and Sony BMG have also begun to forge partnerships with YouTube and other user-generated internet sites in an effort to embrace the new medium rather than tie it down in costly legal...
...Google and YouTube tried to cut this risk by signing deals with companies including CBS and Sony BMG, which allow for the distribution of videos on the basis of shared advertising revenues....
...This follows music video deals with MTV and Sony BMG....
...Selling Bertelsmann’s stake in Sony BMG could be more complicated....
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