Sentences with phrase «by media giants»

Mainstream Media is getting behind Bitcoin in a big way — daily reporting by Media giants such at Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC and BBC.

In late January a group of some 200 independent video - store owners sued Blockbuster — itself owned by media giant Viacom — alleging monopolistic practices.

Instead, it announced that the costs would be a municipal - provincial split, mitigated by media giant Quebecor's late arrival as naming sponsor.

Humble Bundle, the company best known for selling packs of indie games at pay - what - you - want prices, has been acquired by media giant IGN.

The company is also partnering with FirstPaper, which is backed by media giant Hearst Corp, for content and graphics technology.

Not exact matches

Business Insider is being acquired by German media giant Axel Springer for $ 343 million.

In the newspaper business, media giants are desperately trying to avoid an ad - revenue death spiral by pushing into video and live - streaming news formats.

The social media giant is coming off a rough weekend, shedding nearly 7 percent Monday after reports of a massive mishandling of data by conservative research firm Cambridge Analytica.

From the 1960s on, some of the most popular, esteemed auto giants have been embroiled in controversy and lawsuits as investigations — by the media and regulators — linked engineering and safety problems to injuries and deaths.

There's also the fact that social media giants make billions of dollars by selling ads that rely on the content we freely give them.

In a recent interview with ad industry veteran Jay Sears, Pivotal's Wieser said the digital - media industry has effectively become a giant duopoly in which Google and Facebook win almost everything, advertisers have to play by their rules, and other media companies «fight for the scraps.»

Comcast already owns a 30 % stake in Hulu through NBCUniversal, and it remains to be seen how much Comcast plans to compete with that service, which is also jointly owned by rival media giants Walt Disney, Time Warner, and 21st Century Fox.

Even though the social media giant claims to have had consent, many people across the world were shocked by the sheer amount of personal information the site has on every user.

Media giants across the country have been scrambling to adapt as internet - based content providers drain revenues once thought to be monopolized by a few industry titans.

PARIS, April 24 - French billionaire Vincent Bollore, who stepped down days ago as chairman of media giant Vivendi, is being questioned by police as part of an investigation into allegations of corrupt business practices in Africa, his lawyer said.

Media giant Time Inc.'s acquisition by Meredith is key to boosting its digital business, offering it a fighting chance against «giant tech monsters» like Facebook and Google, the company's chief content officer, Alan Murray, said Thursday.

Founded by Jonah Peretti, the new - media giant recently formed separate news and entertainment divisions, which has helped the company dominate video on social media.

His arrival in China has been accompanied by a series of interviews on that country's state media in which Duterte has voiced his affinity for the Asian giant and his hopes to affirm good relations between the two countries.

The departure comes a few years after his messaging app was acquired by the social - media giant for $ 22 billion.

Europe has no doubts that tech firms other than Facebook are affected by privacy and data protection issues similar to the social media giant, European Commissioner Vera Jourova told CNBC.

In the assessments, mandated by a 2011 consent decree, PwC deemed Facebook's internal controls effective at protecting users» privacy — even after the social media giant lost control of a huge trove of user data that was improperly obtained by Cambridge Analytica.

Mark Zuckerberg and his data - hoarding creation Facebook remain in the crosshairs this week as scrutiny over its Cambridge Analytica profile - scraping scandal continues to mount, with the social media giant's stock price falling by over 13 percent this week.

The social media giant obviously has a direct interest in assessing shutdowns because its service delivery is affected by any cut - off.

The company recently admitted that the data on most of its 2 billion users could be compromised by malicious actors, a strong sign that the social media giant is not only misusing consumer data, but failing to protect it.

Most of China's tech giants, including instant messaging and gaming company Tencent, mobile handset maker Xiaomi, portal and microblogging giant Sina, and the country's video streaming sites YoukuTudou, iQiyi, and LeTV, all have rushed into the rapidly growing space, joining upstarts such as Panda TV, an e-sports streaming app owned by Wang Sicong, the son of Wang Jianlin, China's richest man, a real estate mogul with aspirations in media and entertainment.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has reported strong revenue growth for the second quarter led by its core business as well as the digital media and entertainment segment.

The story, by Wired Editor - in - Chief Nicholas Thompson and Contributing Editor Fred Vogelstein, is headlined «Inside the Two Years That Shook Facebook — and the World» (subhead: «How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all») and sets the stage for the social network's current drama.

In a statement today, the social - media giant estimated 622,161 Facebook users in Canada had their data improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica through apps used by themselves or their friends.

Stocks are higher for the second day in a row after the strong bearish move in Tuesday, with the NASDAQ leading the way higher, led by Facebook, as the recently troubled social media giant is staging a strong bounce following yesterday's positive quarterly earnings report.

Created by Taiwanese digital media giant Gamania for its GASH

Created by Taiwanese digital media giant Gamania for its GASH payment platform, GASH Point is a reloadable wallet and prepaid card for online gaming purchases.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, already taking heat for exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology to hook people on social media, got lit into again Tuesday, this time by a prominent technology chief executive who said the giant social network is addictive like cigarettes and should be regulated like big tobacco.

It suggests steps our churches may take to provide alternatives to the increasing centralization of control and ownership and to the politicizing of world media by a few powerful governments and transnational media giants.

S.Kidman & Co managing director Greg Campbell and one of its major shareholders, Will Abel - Smith, have called for common sense in the sale of the giant pastoral company's holdings, saying the sale process is on and was never abandoned, despite complications including national politics, leaks from participants and misreporting by the media.

CBH insisted over and again to the competition regulator, to its owners and customers and to the media that Brookfield would likely abuse the market power delivered it by the alliance of the rail tracks it already owned in WA and the giant freight train company that would arrive with a successful run at Asciano.

But what will be a big deal for the media and the football pundits to start rambling about is if Arsenal lost the match, a shocker punch by Lincoln doing a giant killing act to the Gunners will be loved by the media and the football pundits as they will have a selling story to start writing another round of anti-Wenger articles and do another round of anti-Wenger punditry.

Discussing the comparison in the Dutch media, the 23 - year - old — who is currently on loan at Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven — has insisted that he's not bothered by the frequent references to the Canadian singing sensation.

Spanish international has been heavily linked with a move away from Old Trafford to join La Liga giants Real Madrid and the move is happening if the latest reports in the media are anything to go by.

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a talk given by Mike Bonnano, one of the Yes Men (self - proclaimed social justice pranksters famous for impersonating the CEOs of Dow Chemical, General Electric and similar corporate giants in the international media).

I have seen betrayal, I have seen how ungrateful one can be, I have made some big guys rich and have as well raised giants in the media (Nana Yaw Kesse, Kaba, Dominic, Akua Sonto) and other few ones by the grace of God, I have stood and fought with my everything to save colleagues from going waste (Songo of for fire, B.B of etv) and few guys.

News Corp.'s auction of the once - mighty social networking site is coming to a close, with the media giant expected to receive a handful of bids by the end of the week that are in the neighborhood of $ 100 million, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The 19th Vodafone Ghana Music Awards is produced by events giants Charterhouse with support from Media General, Yfm, Dusk Capital, DSTV, KPMG and Movenpick Ambassador Hotel.

The group includes WeBank, backed by social media group Tencent Holdings, and MYBank, controlled by Ant Financial, the financial affiliate of ecommerce giant Alibaba Group.

Nana Appiah Mensah, Chief Executive Officer of Zylofon Media and his management team have so far demonstrated to Ghanaians especially people in the Creative Arts Industry that they always walk the talk by effectuating giant steps to motivate and deliver on their «juicy» promises and pronouncements.

Fraudulent accounts backed by Russians may have purchased ads on Facebook during the election, the social media giant acknowledged on Wednesday.

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Amid a growing backlash, the Walt Disney Company reversed its decision to bar The Los Angeles Times from press screenings of its movies following an investigation by the newspaper into the media giant's business dealings in Anaheim.

By Nathaniel Gana Social media giant, FACEBOOK and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have agreed to explore ways to expand voter education and engage citizens -LSB-...]

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The oil giant Shell is betting on a world that will be 4 °C warmer by 2100, according to this week's media reports.