Sentences with phrase «licensing deals with»

However, the company launched this service without licensing deals with the record labels, and so the only way you can take advantage of it is by uploading all of your music manually first.

After all, the company has signed licensing deals with Sony and Universal Music.

Licensing deals with multiple studios and cable channels like Starz gave Netflix a wide selection of films and TV shows that made it seem like an unparalleled bargain for consumers, particularly as broadband speeds increased across the United States, and the quality of streaming caught up to the visual potential of high - definition TVs.

In the last few months, the streaming service renegotiated licensing deals with Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group, which will give Spotify a break on royalty payouts.

There are currently seventy - four OEM's in twenty - five countries which have patent licensing deals with Microsoft.

Xiaomi, meanwhile, has been eyeing expansion beyond emerging markets; doing so is likely to mean patent licensing deals with some of the key players.

As it works to renegotiate its now expired licensing deals with music labels, Spotify has agreed to restrict some new releases to its premium tier, The Verge has learned.

As mentioned here before, Spotify's licensing deals with the major labels is currently out of contract.

Baidu bought out Providence's stake two years later, then secured major content licensing deals with Lions Gate, Paramount, and even Netflix.

After a lengthy beta - test period and a succession of licensing deals with music companies, VR music startup MelodyVR is preparing for its commercial launch.

The company also offers a more limited, ad - supported tier and has licensing deals with Hulu, Netflix (S NFLX) and others.

The company also locked in early content licensing deals with big Hollywood studios like Lions Gate and Paramount — and a deal with Netflix to juice its subscriber base in China.

Advising the England and Wales Cricket Board on domestic and international media rights licensing deals with Sky, BBC (Digital clips), News International, Supersport, Star India, Fox Sports and others.

He notes that Google and YouTube signed licensing deals with several major media conglomerates just hours before announcing the acquisition.

Their callous disregard for Xbox owners and eagerness to pen licensing deals with everyone from the NFL to Doritos suggests that they've forgotten who ultimately uses their products, and who should be getting their attention first and foremost.

Owners of Barnes & Noble's current line of full - color tablets, Nook HD and Nook HD +, can now stream a wider array of films and TV shows, thanks to a slew of licensing deals with content owners including Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount Pictures, Relativity...

Owners of Barnes & Noble's current line of full - color tablets, Nook HD and Nook HD +, can now stream a wider array of films and TV shows, thanks to a slew of licensing deals with content owners including Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount Pictures, Relativity Media and National Geographic.

Over the course of the last calendar year Kobo has been building a team in Taiwan and securing licensing deals with local publishers in order to launch their digital bookstore with a large portfolio that features local writers.

Going with the proprietary OS will shield it from potential lawsuits or necessary licensing deals with Apple or Microsoft.

The first quinquennium of technology translation at Sanger has seen significant expansion and maturation of the Sanger Institute's portfolio of spin out companies, establishment of the 50 FTE Centre for Therapeutic Target Validation and execution of licensing deals with major strategic benefits for the exploitation of key Institute assets.

In India, as in many other places, the Trump Organization strikes licensing deals with local building partners.

And thanks to a flurry of licensing deals with PC, mobile and game - console OEMs, the company is much less dependent than it once was on TVs, DVD players and home theater systems.

In recent months, it has struck content licensing deals with the likes of Paramount, Lionsgate and NBCUniversal and reached a multi-year extension of an agreement with Sony Pictures Television to bring even more of the company's feature films to its users.

Vergara's wealth comes from her well - paid gig on the hit series «Modern Family,» as well as her licensing deals with SharkNinja Coffee and Rooms to Go.

Their dependence on licensing deals with movies — particularly at Hasbro, which owns «master rights» to Disney (dis) franchises like Star Wars — has become a double - edged lightsaber: When movies are down, so are toys.

For years Sarandos was tasked with cutting licensing deals with studios and networks — helping those content creators make more money from their catalogues.

As Celenza explains, dressing rooms in those days often featured a table piled high with freebies from energy bar and protein supplement companies that either had licensing deals with the league or wanted them.

The streaming site previously signed similar licensing deals with a range of movie studios, such as 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Viacom's Paramount, and Comcast's NBCUniversal, among others.

Sling Media representatives say this is a necessary cost because of licensing deals with app store providers.

The company has 60 million paying subscribers, just renegotiated long - term licensing deals with three major record labels, and is valued at about $ 15 billion.

The Paper Store, Harvey Nichols, and Saks Fifth Avenue have all carried Alex and Ani bangles, and in 2012 the company also began licensing deals with Walt Disney, NFL, national sororities, and the US military.

Jim Harkins approached Gerdes in the fall of 1998 just as he was at the tail end of closing a key licensing deal with Intel.

The toy company secured a licensing deal with Walt Disney Co. to produce dolls from its Disney Princess line, including characters from the Oscar - winning film «Frozen.»

In March, there was a $ 40,000 licensing deal with Trellix, a business software start - up whose founder, a Blogger admirer, read about Williams's plight on his blog and decided he wanted to help save the company.

He also began receiving emails from friends and industry insiders congratulating him on his licensing deal with Cascade Designs, and that related Cascade products were showcased at trade shows.

Instead of simply cutting a licensing deal with a venture capital firm, the 32 - year - old Cox turned to Indiegogo for crowdfunding.

Lowe himself is on a one - year sabbatical to run Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, an imaging start - up born out of a licensing deal with a Carnegie Mellon scientist.

4) It doesn't need to: Although buying Netflix would give Apple a leg up in the subscription services area, the company doesn't have to acquire the company in order to get most of those benefits — it could strike a licensing deal with Netflix, while also building its own subscription offering similar to Amazon's Prime Video.

The company got a licensing deal with Lucasfilm after participating in an accelerator run by its parent company, Walt Disney.

In addition to the brand license deal with Nokia, Foxconn and HMD paid $ 350 million to Microsoft (msft) last May for the assets to manufacture Nokia (nok) phones.

At the end of 2002, Westergren reached a licensing deal with AOL Music, and Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) chose Pandora over 15 competitors to run a trial kiosk program.

Music streaming service Spotify has reportedly reached a licensing deal with Sony Music Entertainment that brings it a big step closer to what could be one of the year's biggest stock market listings.

Spotify had already tied up a new licensing deal with Universal Media Group, part of the French group Vivendi, in April.

Yesterday Wylie told the committee that Kosinski had asked for $ 500k up front from CA and 50 % equity in the commercial venture to work on the project — which he said was ultimately why it ended up signing a data licensing deal with another Cambridge professor, Aleksandr Kogan, who agreed to work first on gathering the Facebook data and to discuss commercial terms later.

Ionis Pharmaceuticals will get $ 30 million upfront, along with the potential for hundreds of millions more, in a drug licensing deal with pharma giant AstraZeneca.

This assertion was made after the world's largest music streaming service Spotify, secured a new multi-year licensing deal with the world's largest record label, Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA)...

Gilead's deep dive into cellular therapeutics with the acquisitions of Kite Pharma and Cell Design Labs, along with the subsequent licensing deal with Sangamo Therapeutics to develop off - the - shelf cell therapies, is another key value creator that's arguably being under - appreciated by the market.

Palace Entertainment's parent company signs a licensing deal with Nickelodeon and Lionsgate to open more theme parks.

Does one have more cash in the bank or a licensing deal with a major pharmaceutical company?

Wake Forest Innovations, the commercialization arm of the hospital, has reached a licensing deal with one of its startup companies Causa Research.