Sentences with phrase «for streaming companies»

Current environment offers a good opportunity for streaming companies to secure great deals.

Netflix buying the rights to the Extreme Universe comics is the latest superhero acquisition for the streaming company, which also bought Mark Millar's comic book publishing house Millarworld last year as a source of new adaptation material.

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Both will provide additional revenue streams for the company, in addition to its subscription model.

The company sells a $ 1,995 bike that comes with an attached tablet for streaming spinning and exercise classes live.

He also hopes the funding will help Crypt make more merchandise, which is a small but growing revenue stream for the company.

The grand plan is that the company will eventually have content available on the full range of media platforms anywhere in the world, from traditional print publications and cable channels to snappy websites with streaming video suitable for hand - held devices, as well as downloadable digital magazines.

Customer intelligence companies now tap into this stream of conversations and comments and gather related information for analysis.

Perhaps the search giant is actually tempted to follow the example of older companies like Microsoft and Qualcomm which, as their capacity for product innovation fades, have turned to their patent portfolios as a new revenue stream.

For one, deep - pocketed streaming companies like Netflix and Amazon are paying more to lock up broadcast rights, allowing savvy producers to extract bigger budgets from broadcasters.

Currently, the company is streaming data for the platform from market makers.

It seems Dorsey and company are treating this period as a foundational time to prepare for the fall when it will finally kick off its live streaming of Thursday NFL games.

In addition to calling into question the effectiveness of the checks taxi companies use, Uber has also argued that the fingerprinting requirement is too onerous and may make it harder for the company to keep up a steady stream of new drivers.

The Boston company is seeking FDA approval for an under - the - skin pump system that it says can dispense a steady stream of diabetes drugs for a period of six months or longer.

Hulu will be the streaming home for future and past Dreamwork's Animations films, and the companies will work together to create original kids» and family series.

The U.S. - based streaming video service is one of the rare companies that isn't changing prices to account for exchange rates

Nielsen, the company whose name is synonymous with network and cable TV ratings, has been trying for a few years to expand its measurement capabilities to cover the rapidly - growing streaming entertainment market.

The program also includes the ability for gamers to stream their gameplay in smooth 1080p with 60 fps, and Facebook is looking to add distribution of videos to other company properties, including Oculus and Instagram.

Utley's firm just received FDA clearance for an over-the-counter carbon monoxide breathalyzer — a device that smokers using the company's new Pivot cessation program would use to see the effect that smoking has on the carbon monoxide level in their blood streams.

Facebook is stepping up its efforts to compete with Twitch and YouTube for video game streaming: The company is now offering select video gamers a chance to monetize their gameplay live streams on Facebook by giving their audience a way to tip them as part of a test of new monetization options.

Music streaming company Spotify finally filed for its non-traditional IPO yesterday, suggesting it will begin trading publicly later this month.

Donovan, who started out in the movie business and won an Oscar in 2003 for producing Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine documentary, created a media company for the Netflix era, where once beloved shows are held in massive digital libraries, sold to streaming services, and viewed on demand, often on laptops, tablets and phones.

Shortly after it closed, BMO Capital Markets mining analyst Edward Sterck told the Northern Miner that choosing mining over retail made sense for the company, given the number and size of diamond mines expected to come on stream over the next few years.

• Roku, a Los Gatos, Calif. - based streaming entertainment device company, set terms for its IPO.

It seems companies like Spotify have learned from Napster — they work with record labels and artists to allow for legal music streaming.

He founded entertainment company Roc Nation in 2008, and in 2015, he purchased streaming platform Tidal for $ 56 million, which was valued at $ 600 million in 2017.

Icahn owns an 82 % stake in CVR Energy, which along with other refining companies, has called for changes to the Renewable Fuel Program to shift the burden of blending biofuels into gasoline away from refiners and further down stream to marketers.

Baby's First Deal: In April, when Netflix raised $ 1 billion in new debt for content acquisitions, we noted that the streaming giant has never acquired another company in its entire history.

The company was (and is) the top resource for digital downloads, but streaming revenue is starting to take over.

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).

Disney and other media companies have been hit by the trend of «cord - cutting» as younger viewers increasingly opt for streaming services over cable and satellite TV channels.

Google is not the only tech company nominated for an Oscar this year — Amazon became the first streaming service in history to be nominated for the most prestigious category, «best picture,» for Manchester by the Sea, which was also nominated in five other categories.

For the San Francisco company, these games are part of a major initiative to use the video streaming of live events, particularly sports, as a way to drive user growth and engagement, and, in this way, ad sales.

Mining royalty «streaming» companies — firms that help finance new mines in exchange for a cut of what's produced — have posted impressive returns amid the industry's gloom.

The company treated this election's party conventions as practice for the NFL games, running live streams of each as a way to experiment with the format.

Ted Bailey at Dataminr's offices, with a display showing his company's stream behind him.Photograph by Patrick James Miller for Fortune Magazine

Competition will push phone prices lower, and companies will be looking for new revenue streams elsewhere.

«Most companies that are great at something... do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.

Creative live streaming video initiatives and campaigns are a way for companies to cut through the digital clutter and have emerged as the medium of choice not only for person - to - person sharing, but also for business - to - consumer (B2C) and business - to - business (B2B) communication.

For Tencent and the other companies providing them, the streaming apps are just another bridge into a broader ecosystem of services.

I've written before about how Netflix is one of the few still doing that, but the mounting pressures the streaming company is facing from all corners don't bode well for this continued focus.

The move to streaming services has led to a significant decline in subscribers for the country's cable companies, including market leader Rogers with its 5.2 million subscribers.

Netflix paid US$ 100 million for two seasons, and instead of using ad dollars to pay for it, the company needs word - of - mouth, good reviews and overall buzz to convince new viewers to pay $ 7.99 a month for its streaming service.

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Normally, BAM is the entity that gets paid, as a «white - label» streaming technology for other companies, including ESPN, HBO and more.

You can grow without new products — AT&T sold essentially the same telephones for decades while becoming the world's largest telecommunications concern — but most small companies will find it difficult to grow at all, much less rapidly, without a constant stream of new products that meet customer needs.

The steady stream of revelations over the past year that the National Security Agency has been hoovering up companies» data is hurting international sales for U.S. - based companies, he adds.

The company has even looked at picking up the rights to scripted shows that aired during previous seasons on traditional networks, while Facebook also has deals in place for streaming live sports, including MLB games and European soccer, as well as e-sports competitions.

Apple paid $ 3 billion for headphone and streaming music company Beats Electronics to try to play catch - up in the shift away from downloading music, said a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist.

The company's biggest audience to - date came during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, when NeuLion worked with Univision to stream matches for the Spanish - language audience in the U.S., pulling in a collective 10 million unique views over the tournament, including 1.6 million for the most - watched match.

Those games will be available in China to stream for free on Tencent's variety of platforms, including Tencent Sports and the company's flagship social network WeChat, which touts roughly 960 monthly active users and accounts for almost 30 % of China's mobile apps usage.