Sentences with phrase «on licensing deals»

What had started as an idea for a music app that would make it easier for BlackBerry owners to listen to music on their devices, had to be downgraded to a mere chat service while Kik waited on licensing deals.

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.

The company is working on licensing deals that will soon result in Winnebago - brand camping and tailgating gear.

Grandinetti, who has since moved to MarketSoft Corp., in Lexington, Mass., had worked on a licensing deal between Connected and Intel, and he hoped to strike a similar deal with Microsoft.

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.

Now, the Associated Press has reported that the company is working on a licensing deal in the Dominican Republic.

Not exact matches

April 9 (Reuters)- Ionis Pharmaceuticals said on Monday it signed a licensing deal for its fatty liver disease treatment with AstraZeneca Plc that could land the company up to $ 300 million in milestone payments and royalties.

There are flat fee licensing deals (revenue given up front with no additional amount), and print - on - demand deals (receive revenue only if the product is sold).

So the independent streaming services need to double down on the amount of exclusive shows and specials they create or lock up very long licensing deals (like Netflix did for Mostly Stories, House of Cards, and Orange Is the New Black).

AT&T and Time Warner said in a filing on Tuesday that Time Warner's Turner unit had offered its distributors licensing terms that forbid Turner from «going dark» on any distributor for seven years after the deal closes if they were to reach an impasse in negotiations.

Meanwhile, Linton said Canopy has already begun collaborating on cannabis - based drinks with Constellation Brands since the Corona - beer maker signed a deal to acquire a nearly 10 - per - cent stake in the licensed producer for $ 245 million in October.

But Trump's casinos were just a portion of his overall Trump Organization, which also included the Trump Tower, a Trump building on Wall Street, a licensing deal for a building at Columbus Circle in New York, Mar - a-Lago, and other properties and licensing deals.

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.

The US Navy already had a small deal in place with Bitmanagement, the suit says: «In 2011 and 2012, Bitmanagement agreed to license its software to the Navy on a limited and experimental basis.

Companies can experience great success from their appearances on the show, ranging from lucrative licensing deals to millions of dollars in sales.

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.

At this point, you might want to enlist the help of an outside expert, such as a licensing agent, whose business is built on understanding the marketplace, analyzing the commercial potential of a character, brand, or design concept, and then using his or her network of contacts to turn concepts into deals.

It was also closing in on a fat stack of more promising licensing deals.

The first was in his headline: He estimates that through licensing deals to secure its search engine as the default option on Apple's phones, Google will pay Apple $ 3 billion in fees in Apple's fiscal year 2017.

The cable company doesn't own its own wireless airwave licenses, so the new service relies on a 2011 deal Comcast struck with Verizon to lease cellular airwaves.

Georgia governor Nathan Deal struck down a similar bill on Monday, which critics said gave businesses the license to discriminate under the guise of religious freedom, after an outcry from businesses.

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.

According to Forbes» list of the world's highest - paid TV actresses in 2017, Vergara's big financial gain this year comes not only from her role on the hit series «Modern Family,» but from two licensing deals, and her uber - popular line of perfumes.

This enthusiasm and its influence on consumer spending represents a huge potential for global companies — from sponsorship deals to licensing, distribution, and branding.

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.

That focus, from Bright's view from retail, was again on lower - risk, higher - margin licensing deals.

Therefore, parties dealing in, advising on, or managing such products in Hong Kong, or targeting such services to investors in Hong Kong, may be subject to the SFC's licensing, conduct5 and authorisation6 requirements under the SFO.

Accordingly, parties carrying on a business in dealing in Bitcoin Futures, including those who relay or route Bitcoin Futures orders, are required to be licensed for Type 2 regulated activity (dealing in futures contracts) 1 under the SFO unless an exemption applies.

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.

«The most Christ - loving and helpful community might not have the appropriate framework for dealing with such clinical disorders, and many churches don't have licensed psychologists on the staff.

Commenting on the deal, Peter Giørtz - Carlsen, Executive Vice President and Head of Europe in Arla Foods, said: «The potential for organic dairy products in the UK is significant, and our investment in range through this licensing agreement with Yeo Valley provides a significant opportunity to offer a greater choice to consumers at attractive prices.

He struck licensing deals on his gloves with several companies, most notably FootJoy, which incorporated Antonious's design as an entry point into the glove business and is now the world's leading manufacturer in that category.

Under the deal, which Mrs. Obama helped broker, PMA's growers, suppliers and retailers are allowed to use for two years iconic characters such as Elmo and Big Bird in messaging and on produce sold in stores — without paying any licensing fees.

Where you can go to one portal, the department of motor vehicles and you can apply for all of your licenses and they will literally be presented on your motor vehicle license rather than having to deal with a lot of agencies and carry a lot of paper.

Rank and file legislators fear a repeat of the 2010 bid rigging scandal over gambling at the Aqueduct that cost the State Senate's Democrats their majority, but don't want to be shutout of the dealing on the lucrative casino licenses.

State Financial Services Superintendent Ben Lawsky proposed the toughest restrictions on bitcoin companies to date, unveiling a plan that would require firms dealing in virtual currencies to hold certain levels of capital, hire compliance officers and obtain special licenses.

«This has a detrimental effect on the performance of firearms licensing departments as they then have to deal with telephone calls and emails from applicants querying what is happening.

But the proposals to deal with it are worthless gimmicks such as: «A licensing forum to give locals a say on the impact of off - licence applications in their area.»

Very few universities, says Isenbruck, have in - house patent counsel to provide advice on turning experiments into inventions, or to work out lucrative licensing deals.

Companies technically do not need a license until they have a product on the market — that could take a decade for CRISPR - made medicines — but as Cook - Deegan notes, «Licensing is usually smoother and easier while there is still a veil of uncertainty so everyone has a stake in cutting the deal and gets a bit of what they want, even though they don't know if the license is actually needed in the end.»

So we did a deal in a few months to distribute and license SayHeyHey content on V - Cast.

«There are a lot of really qualified people out there waiting to teach and they are either in a situation where they have an emergency permit, or they're teaching on a substitute license, or in some cases the school systems have offered them jobs and then pulled the job offer back because they don't want to deal with the paperwork,» Meredith says.

Gary, the big deal is because it is the only «Licensed by GM» Grand Sport replica on the market.

Have sufficient expertise and capital on - hand to compete for and negotiate license deals for books involving movie characters and celebrities.

HBO signed a content deal with Amazon in January 2018 to license 50 HBO series on Amazon Prime Video in Japan.

Mark's authors have been published with houses such as Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Penguin Random House; gotten 6 - figure book deals; appeared on the NY Times bestseller list; had their work optioned for TV, stage, and feature film with companies such as Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks; won countless awards; and had their work licensed in more than 40 countries, resulting in millions of books sold.

It is now possible for games companies such as Capcom to extend their fantastic stories into the literary marketplace without having to rely on a traditional licensing deal with a book publisher,» he said.

Normally, a print deal will involve the publisher licensing the rights to sell your book, for which they pay you royalties (and often an advance on royalties) in return.

But when they're on the other side of the deal, licensing things like paperback reprints or foreign rights to other companies, publishers typically don't make agreements that continue for the life of a book's copyright.

«The publisher has struck licensing deals to put the mischievous [Peter Rabbit]'s image on pottery, chocolate bars, as well as a line of toys,» the first article chuckles.