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...At the moment, the retail titan mainly sells ads on its websites, apps and self-checkout screens in stores....
...Tech titans say they want elected officials to set limits. But Washington had a hard enough time keeping up with targeted advertising and surveillance capitalism....
...Symbolically, the sale of the Orioles reflects a wider shift in US sports ownership, as Wall Street titans take the reins from local dynasties....
...Maga Inc, a pro-Trump super Pac, has booked just $6.5mn....
...Social media’s role in digital media entertainment is just getting started....
...The geniuses in social media for the Tennessee Titans opted to hit the streets of Nashville— unofficial US capital of hen-dos, bar crawls, and of course, country music — to ask the people to identify each...
...Other media titans have discovered that the direct-to-consumer content business is not only expensive but also a smaller market than hoped....
...Smith’s ambitious approach no doubt helped expand Vice from a small “zine” into a global news publisher and television company that, for a time, mesmerised the likes of media titans such as Iger and Rupert...
...Tennessee’s attorney-general, Jonathan Skrmetti, said he was launching an investigation into Ticketmaster, while Klobuchar, a senator from Minnesota, said: “TicketMaster’s power in the primary ticket market...
...No investor should be playing with their retirement savings for entertainment,” said Mr Buckley....
...James Bond has encountered media titans hell-bent on world domination before....
...“We stand here on the shoulders of mighty titans, from Ted Turner to Steve Ross,” he waxed on, while calling Discovery shareholder John Malone a “teacher and best friend”....
...It became now or never,” says George Wada, senior vice-president at Production IG, the company behind the anime hits, Ghost in the Shell and Attack on Titan....
...The National Football League had its first Covid-19 outbreak this week, forcing the postponement of a game between the affected Tennessee Titans and the Pittsburgh Steelers....
...Latham & Watkins has appointed Frank Saviano as a partner in its corporate department and entertainment, sports and media practice. He joins the firm’s New York office from Proskauer....
...When the group bought Scripps, the Tennessee-based company behind channels such as the Food Network and HGTV — it gained a portfolio of content whose audience tends to be women, which Mr Zaslav believed...
...That has made the companies that would normally buy independent movies — from industry titans such as Amazon and Comcast-owned Universal to relative minnows such as the distributor Neon — wary of taking...
...But for now AT&T resembles a lumbering titan extremely vulnerable to an economic slowdown....
...In their favour are superior growth trajectories (Alibaba and Tencent are still growing revenues at over 50 per cent a year) and extensive diversification: into retail, entertainment, financial services....
...The battle presents a showdown between two longtime media executives — Mr Iger and his Comcast counterpart Brian Roberts — who have helped shape the entertainment business over the past three decades....
...The poor performance of the headphones and home entertainment business it bought for $135m from Philips in 2014 was the single biggest cause of its filing, industry executives believe....
...The biggest star in this year’s entertainment calendar is Tencent Music Entertainment, a spin-off from tech titan Tencent....
...Meanwhile, Google and Apple have the financial resources and technological prowess either to swallow or crush even the biggest legacy media titans....
...Private equity titans like Leon Black and Steve Schwarzman became billionaires in part by slashing every extraneous cost at their portfolio companies....
...He says non-driving related software such as entertainment and shopping is likely to be a very big part of a car’s appeal very soon....
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