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...The early popularisation of K-dramas in China, Japan and south-east Asia opened the door to other media genres, such as films, music and gaming, as well as beauty and food....
...Be sure to check out the full line up of events, and don’t miss Sid’s interview with David Mercer, chief executive officer of the LMAX Group....
...They join from Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Choate, Hall & Stewart, respectively....
...Friday’s ruling, in effect, extends this to gaming apps which account for more than 70 per cent of all App Store revenues. 2....
...as a bundle in a cloud gaming service....
...In a memo last month Stewart Jeffries, a Google lobbyist, wrote that the bill “has the potential to seriously jeopardise the internet ecosystem” as he urged lawmakers not to support it....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on April 20, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Alain Martinez is chief financial officer of Ubisoft, a Paris-based gaming group that is being courted by media group Vivendi, which increased its stake in the company to more than 17 per cent and asked...
...Henny Sender in Hong Kong reports WME-IMG is teaming up with venture firm Sequoia Capital China and internet group Tencent to expand the US sports and entertainment conglomerate’s Chinese business....
...Music streaming has passed digital downloads At least in revenues for Warner Music Group....
...Rangers Football Club came close to being thrown off after its nominated adviser Daniel Stewart relinquished its nomadic licence....
...As Prof Stewart says: “Ireland is not a tax haven for individuals....
...Demis Hassabis, a 37-year-old neuroscientist and former gaming whizz-kid, netted around £80m this week when he sold his artificial intelligence company DeepMind to Google, in the technology group’s largest...
...The mining team at Collins Stewart said the deal placed a value of $6bn on the project against the company’s current market valuation of $3.4bn....
...In advance of earnings on Thursday, Man Group dropped 9.3 per cent to an eight-year low of 136p....
...Zynga, the social gaming developer, goes public even before it has written a line of code....
...Global revenue from gaming has overtaken movies as active participation replaces passive consumption of video....
...PartyGaming closed barely changed at 256¾p after Bwin, the Austrian gaming group, damped bid talk by saying it was not in advanced merger talks with anyone....
...Playtech has signed another licensing deal with a large UK betting operator, agreeing to provide Betfair with casino, bingo and other online gaming services....
...Collins Stewart....
...“This is the worst fundraising environment since dinosaurs roamed the Earth,” said Stewart Kohl, co-chief executive....
...Online gaming stocks rose after US congressman Barney Frank confirmed he would put forward a bill to legalise web gambling....
...Trader said this was likely to include plans to relax the numbers and size of stakes and prizes on gaming machines....
...It blamed the smoking ban in England and the removal of certain gaming terminals from outlets in accordance with the Gambling Act, which came into force in September....
...In 2006, TPG agreed to buy Harrah’s, the casino group, and is now bracing itself to undergo the intrusive process of acquiring US gaming licences....
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