Sentences with phrase «as entertainment companies»

Entertainment attorneys and law firms represent individual entertainers as well as entertainment companies with many aspects of their business.

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an entertainment company worldwide.

«This might be one or two games, or one title as a game - as - a-service, but also - and I think this is more important as an entertainment company - to put it beyond video games and look at it in 360 - degrees,» says Hoerdt.

As an entertainment company, Nintendo requires our full attention focused on its games, so to force a device to only play those games would be idea from the company's point of view.

And partway through the show, listen in as we ask whether we should continue to consider Nintendo a video game company, or start to think of them as an entertainment company instead.

Towards the end of Iwata's life, he began to see Nintendo as not just a video game maker, but as an entertainment company.

Nippon Ichi Software, Inc. was founded in 1994 in Gifu, Japan, as an entertainment company.

Not exact matches

Sousa has also written to the federal government asking them to delay HST input tax credits that would have allowed companies with $ 10 million or more in sales to claim certain expenses such as meals, drinks and entertainment until 2018.

Digital media is an ever - growing source of entertainment, news, shopping and social interaction, and consumers are now exposed not just to what your company says about your brand, but what the media, friends, relatives, peers, etc., are saying as well.

Four of the names had previously been reported in the press: attorney Nicole Seligman, a former president of Sony Entertainment; BuzzFeed chairman Kenneth Lerer, a co-founder of the Huffington Post; former Discovery Communications CEO Judith McHale, a former undersecretary of state who also served as general counsel for Viacom's MTV Networks division; and Bank of America (bac) director Thomas May, a former CEO of Eversource, a New England energy company.

In 2006, he merged that company with Decode Entertainment, a Toronto and U.K. — based company perhaps best known as the maker of the animated hit Angela Anaconda that was co-founded by producer Steven DeNure.

BKEG was acquired in 2003 by New Wave Entertainment, a producer of marketing solutions and trailers for the movie industry that's owned by Paul Apel, who started as an editor at the company and worked his way up to owner and CEO, a spot he's had for 23 years.

The share prices of big entertainment companies have been extremely volatile over the past year as investors try to assess the winners and losers in the changing video ecosystem.

What exact shape this venture will take, and which entertainment or technology companies might be along for the ride as partners, is unknown.

Critics of C - 11 have said the DRM protection isn't required by treaties such as WIPO and that it's just being pushed by U.S. entertainment companies.

The company is looking to continue the momentum with the release of its first big new game in some time, Splatoon, as well as a spate of new announcements set for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles next week.

The company's new TV division is also appealing to yesteryear; it's being branded as Mainframe Entertainment, the name the company scrapped in 2006 when it was acquired by Rainmaker Income Fund.

The most recent round of funding for fuboTV included Sky UK, a telecommunications company with 11 million United Kingdom customers as of 2015; Scripps Networks Interactive, the parent company of HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel; 21st Century Fox, whose stable of entertainment properties includes the Big Ten Network, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports Regional Networks, and the YES Network; and Northzone Ventures, a London - based venture capital firm that mainly invests in early stage software and technology companies.

The next month, he, Wolowitz, and Reisman started Founders Entertainment, with Russell's childhood bedroom serving as the unofficial company headquarters.

Leiweke is the former president and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), the international sports and entertainment company that owns the reigning Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings, the reigning MLS Cup champion Los Angeles Galaxy, a stake in the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, as well as sport and entertainment facilities such as the Staples Center, the Home Depot Center, the L.A. Live entertainment complex, and other high - profile venues arouEntertainment Group (AEG), the international sports and entertainment company that owns the reigning Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings, the reigning MLS Cup champion Los Angeles Galaxy, a stake in the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, as well as sport and entertainment facilities such as the Staples Center, the Home Depot Center, the L.A. Live entertainment complex, and other high - profile venues arouentertainment company that owns the reigning Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings, the reigning MLS Cup champion Los Angeles Galaxy, a stake in the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, as well as sport and entertainment facilities such as the Staples Center, the Home Depot Center, the L.A. Live entertainment complex, and other high - profile venues arouentertainment facilities such as the Staples Center, the Home Depot Center, the L.A. Live entertainment complex, and other high - profile venues arouentertainment complex, and other high - profile venues around the world.

While the Dish Network's reach and power have weakened over the past few years just as Viacom's have, the satellite company is still in a somewhat stronger position than it used to be relative to the entertainment giant, because it knows that Viacom is already suffering from low viewership numbers, and that impacts its ad revenues.

Parent company Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment has just signed up a superstar suit, naming Tim Leiweke as its new president and CEO.

SeaWorld is cutting about 350 jobs, as the aquatic entertainment company continues to struggle drawing in crowds.

The internet's collective nostalgia nerve was pinched by Nintendo last week, as the company announced a new $ 60 version of its original Nintendo Entertainment System console.

The list includes the usual suspects who routinely censor and restrict their citizens» Internet rights, such as China, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, but also those governments that are allowing entertainment companies to bully them into adopting oppressive laws.

As an example of success, Davis held up Vevo, the Hulu - like music video site owned by Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media Company and served by YouTube.

While Microsoft and Sony trip over themselves trying to position their consoles not merely as consoles but as «entertainment centres» (movies, music, games, etc.), modern TVs are to a large extent already doing this natively through telecom companies.

As it forges ahead, transforming itself into a bona fide entertainment company, its success is still predicated on its coexistence with the very environment it is trying to disrupt: the Hollywood ecosystem.

Caesars Entertainment was taken private in one of the largest and ill - timed leveraged buyouts in history, and the company has struggled under the weight of the debt used to finance the move along with increased competition as more jurisdictions legalize gambling.

After taking over as CEO from Michael Eisner in 2005, Iger's tenure at the head of the company has been marked by a string of successful acquisitions that bolstered Disney's movie business, including purchases of Pixar, Marvel Entertainment, and Lucasfilm.

Despite the TV industry's perception that it is at the top of the entertainment food chain, at some point the impact of this shift becomes inescapable, just as newspaper and music companies eventually had to admit that the shifts they were seeing in consumer and advertising behavior were more than just a speed bump.

As intended, the entertainment properties — TV shows built around some of the company's toy brands — allowed Spin Master not only to make inroads in new international markets, but also attract the attention of toy inventors, who would pitch ideas and prototypes to the company's R&D team.

But as enthusiastic press and fans asked what it all meant, the company deflected questions — issuing just a terse statement reading «Konami Digital Entertainment, including Mr. Kojima, will continue to develop and support Metal Gear products.

The billionaire media mogul joins the entertainment company's board as part of a stock swap between Lions Gate and Starz.

I like to think of up - and - coming entertainment business CircusTrix as one of the companies that gets it right.

«We're becoming an online entertainment company that is no longer as dependent on the Nintendos and Microsofts and Sonys,» says Kotick, referring to the makers of the Wii, Xbox, and PlayStation gaming systems, respectively.

The eSports market is continuing to open up to a broader audience with companies such as Super Evil Megacorp and Blizzard Entertainment who have introduced eSports to mobile gamers through Vainglory and Hearthstone.

Walt Disney Studios, Disney's theatrical, television and home entertainment arm, laid off 150 employees last month, including some senior executives, as part of an ongoing company - wide effort to streamline staffing levels.

His company, Magic Johnson Enterprises, has a reported net worth of $ 700 million based on the success of subsidiaries such as Magic Johnson Productions, a promotional company; Magic Johnson Theaters, a nationwide chain of movie theaters; and Magic Johnson Entertainment, a movie studio.

CEO Kotick said in a statement, «We should emerge even stronger — an independent company with a best - in - class franchise portfolio and the focus and flexibility to drive long - term shareholder value and expand our leadership position as one of the world's most important entertainment companies... The transactions announced today will allow us to take advantage of attractive financing markets while still retaining more than US$ 3 billion cash on hand to preserve financial stability.»

Chief financial officer Anthony Noto said as much to CNN, saying the NFL arrangement was «one element of a much larger strategy,» and that the company is exploring similar opportunities with a variety of partners to bring «the best elements of live sports, live news and politics, and live entertainment» to the service.

Previously, Apple has experimented with unscripted original series, including James Corden's Carpool Karaoke and the reality show Planet of the Apps, though the company is clearly looking to quickly expand its original programming offerings as it enters a market already stacked with competition from traditional entertainment studios as well as growing streaming players like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.

Red Bull may, technically, be an energy drink company but content and entertainment have become just as big a part of its branded bread and butter.

Adding 21st Century Fox's premier international properties enhances Disney's position as a truly global entertainment company with authentic local production and consumer services across high - growth regions, including a richer array of local, national and global sporting events that ESPN can make available to fans around the world.

The entertainment company, controlled by the Redstone family, said earlier Thursday morning that it would focus on its six core brands (MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Comedy Central, BET and Paramount) and confirmed that it would rebrand Spike TV as Paramount Network.

Now that so many entertainment companies see it as an existential threat, the question is whether Netflix can continue to thrive in the new TV universe that it has brought into being.

The hack into Ashley Madison's system follows attacks on the likes of Sony Pictures Entertainment and retailer Target that inflicted damage to companies as well as customers.

His departure as chairman marks the end of an era in Canadian business during which his empire included the auto parts company, MI Developments Inc., which owns the real estate under many of Magna's plants, and Magna Entertainment Corp., a racetrack and gambling company that went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2009.

Mr. Ranson began his career as a Financial Analyst with Chase Manhattan's Leveraged Finance department making and underwriting loans to companies in a variety of industries — from manufacturing, media, entertainment, and telecommunications to green energy, paper, and restaurants.

He has more than 25 years of experience in journalism, including serving as the longtime business editor for the Oakland Tribune and sister papers of the Bay Area News Group, as well as covering public entertainment companies for Hollywood trade papers Daily Variety and Variety.