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...He also extended a $30mn loan to a company registered in the name of Epstein’s private pilot. The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet....
...Some studios have received offers from streamers for more than three times what had been laid on the table before the pandemic....
...He also called for the sale of its shareholdings in Sony Financial, M3 Inc, Olympus and Spotify....
...(FT) China retaliates over consulate closure China announced the imminent closure of the US consulate in Chengdu, while the US charged four Chinese nationals with visa fraud....
...Among Hollywood executives the talk is ultimately of a wave of consolidation, with successful streamers or tech groups such as Apple buying up media groups and movie studios lacking the scale to compete....
...Amazon Studios has seen a wave of staff departures after its head Roy Price resigned last week amid allegations of sexual harassment....
...He said he had already received a “tidal wave” of inquiries from the chief financial officers “of some of the biggest most obvious unicorn companies” and the group plans to repeat the format....
...Since he knew no English he could not apply for a student visa. Fortunately, the consul general spoke Chinese and took pity on the hapless young man....
...“The cliché would be ‘regulation is driving me crazy’. It’s not like that,” said Mr Morris. “It is the scale of what has been asked and the constant wave of new regulatory initiatives....
...The structure of the company emulates the model established by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and other actors when they set up the United Artists studio in 1919....
...Since then it’s ridden a wave of easy money and low interest rates, which have encouraged investors to buy the loans originated through its platform, to extend more than $6bn of credit....
...Lydia King, womenswear buying manager at Selfridges, the London store that last summer launched a 26,000 sq ft Denim Studio – the world’s biggest denim department – says customers are responding well to...
...“We are in advance negotiations with a major US studio,” says Lansdorp....
...“Now we are in the third wave . . . original production is coming from digital.” The group’s programming is tailored for the web, where shows tend to be watched in four or five-minute instalments....
...The message represents a new wave of athletic endorsements, where a star’s presence on Twitter, Facebook and the like factors into which athletes marketers choose to sponsor....
...Digitally attacking MasterCard and Visa elevated that engagement to the real world, a literal dream come true....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...The studios and major TV networks have also helped to fund the company....
...After a wave of buying into the New York close, the S&P 500 finished up 10.8 per cent to 940.50....
...Visa Inc, the world’s largest credit card network, on Tuesday set a record for US initial public offerings by raising $17.9bn, providing a welcome windfall to several prominent US banks....
...The first big wave of international investment came in the 1980s when Japanese companies, flush with cash, beat a path to Hollywood’s door....
...The lucrative DVD wave, that hid a multitude of sins on the cost side of the business, is also slowing. But both trends have been around for a while....
...But studios could end up dealing with slowing growth from their core revenue stream while box office takings are also soft. The need to develop the next wave of distribution opportunities is increasing....
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...He is currently program chair for the Web 2.0 conference, a columnist for Business 2.0, and the founder, chairman, and publisher of Federated Media Publishing, Inc....
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