Sentences with phrase «who's a riot»

The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a subpoena to Riot Blockchain, the cryptocurrency company whose stock skyrocketed after changing its name.

«The English bands thought the American bands were stealing their riffs and their music, and they didn't feel comfortable staying with them at the Riot House,» Gruendyke says.

While Riot Games is a key part of Tencent's global video game strategy, it's but one piece of the pie.

«League of Legends» players compete at the Championship Series at Riot Games in Santa Monica, Calif..

You'll want to purchase all - risk insurance, which covers your cargo against everything except man's inhumanity to man — war, strikes, riots and civil commotion — and inherent vice in the cargo.

The company signed a Chinese distribution deal for League of Legends in November 2008 and made an initial investment in Riot Games in 2009.

For poor nations, providing fuel to their citizens at below - market prices is a crippling trap — any attempt to change them can cost a politician an election or cause riots.

In August, riots broke out in the city after the fatal police shooting of 23 - year - old Sylville Smith.

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

While many touring acts playing Los Angeles stayed a short distance east at the Hyatt House — aka the Riot House — more established artists decamped to the Sunset Marquis.

New Jersey estimates HQ2 could bring a $ 9 billion boost to the state's economy, which has struggled to come back from the riots in 1967.

Activision's investment in eSports comes at a time where PC games like Riot Games» League of Legends, Valve's Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm and StarCraft II dominate the scene.

«With EEDAR estimating current League of Legends revenues to be more than $ 1 billion per year, this means that the value of Riot is significantly higher than $ 1 billion and Tencent would have paid a lot of money for the remaining 7 % of the company's shares,» Walker says.

The company acquired a majority stake (93 %) of Riot Games back in February 2011 for a reported $ 400 million.

Gamers will want to win through effort and practice, not shortcuts, and Riot wants workers driven by this ethos.

Those who work at Riot should come to expect a very particular way of life.

But nothing is as over the top as Riot's outsize e-sports division.

Although Riot funds the championship prize pools and pays $ 12,500 stipends for pro players and coaches for each season split, teams have become increasingly vocal about sharing the revenue Riot makes when it sells world championship sponsorships, strikes distribution deals to stream games and tournaments online, and sells team - branded in - game goods.

Behind one closed door at Riot Games» campus, where most of its 2,500 employees work, it sounds like someone is bashing armor with a sword, over and over again.

Beck sees the music videos and animations as steppingstones — proof that Riot can create exciting action sequences, emotionally poignant moments, and any other building blocks needed to tell immersive stories in any medium.

The influx of media rights deals has also opened the door for a range of high - profile corporate sponsors, with Riot Games landing sponsorships in recent years from the likes of Acer Gaming, Coca - Cola, T - Mobile, and Mercedes - Benz.

Instead of pitching Riot as a congenial place to work, hiring managers focus on how new hires can level up — that is, develop and fine - tune skills.

This year, those virtual goods will yield nearly $ 1.6 billion in sales for Riot, estimates SuperData, which tracks in - game spending.

That's also why Riot goes to great lengths to recruit and hire only hardcore gamers who think like its customers (for more on Riot's hiring, see «How Riot Guards Its Culture» below).

Honor of Kings is essentially a reworking for the Chinese market of League of Legends, originally developed by U.S. gaming firm Riot Games.

This year's list - topper, Skillz, like Inc.'s Company of the Year, Riot Games, demonstrates the mania around gaming and e-sports.

I saw the significance of Twitter in the context of the Arab Spring, and the Ferguson riots and the terrorist attacks in Paris.

CAMBODIA: Riot police watched carefully as more than 1,000 garment workers defied a government ban on marching to deliver a petition to the National Assembly in Phnom Penh, demanding a higher minimum wage and more freedom of assembly.

Over the past year, LoL forums were ablaze with anger over Riot's reluctance to release some much - demanded features, including an in - game instant - replay system.

Why model Riot Games» North American League of Legends Championship Series league after major professional sports leagues with revenue - sharing and a players association?

Having read the riot act to the corporate elite, our superstar central banker can depart for London, secure in the knowledge that Canadian companies will eventually have little choice but to start spending all that accumulated cash.

Riot police intervened, charging the crowd when violence broke out and using capsicum spray.

Many fans, naturally, have sided with their favorite team, rather than with Riot.

Riot's interviews test candidates passion for game minutiae.

Yes, the wildly popular game owned by Inc.'s former Company of the Year Riot Games.

Since then, Riot has booked arenas in Berlin, Seoul, and, of course, Madison Square Garden.

Its distribution partner in China and investor, internet giant Tencent Holdings, saw Riot Games» meteoric rise and wanted to buy the company, offering $ 400 million in early 2011 for a 93 percent stake.

Hiring managers often check Riot's game logs to confirm an interviewee plays as obsessively as he or she claims.

«If you go back to some of the threads from year one or year two of League of Legends and all the Riot [online] forums,» says Steve Arhancet, a former pro gamer and now co-CEO of LoL team Team Liquid, «you had your developers, your executives, all chiming in to the conversation, listening to the community, making adjustments based on forum threads.

She campaigned loudly for Thomas Mulcair's federal NDP (doing so at the aforementioned Calgary luncheon, which is roughly equivalent to dining at Vladimir Putin's house and telling him how much you love Pussy Riot).

«Thank you for acknowledging your mistakes and making a REAL effort to please all of your players... I speak for the whole playerbase when I say that we forgive you Riot, and we love you, and we believe in you.

Some fans praised Riot for tackling the issue head - on.

But money has become a central issue in a dispute that has sprung up around Riot's e-sports division.

This week Fortune caught up with Jarred Kennedy, the co-head of esports at Riot Games, to discuss the world championship (the finals will take place Nov. 4 at the Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing) as well as the overall growth of the esports industry and Riot's plans, much like rival Activision Blizzard, to remodel its own esports league after major professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA.

Riot doesn't need»em.

(Laurent joined Riot Games in 2009.)

Others argued that Riot didn't go far enough.

Those sponsors vet against Riot's cultural tenets and challenge the hiring manager's case.

Riot also employs four documentary filmmakers to chronicle the hard work of all the creative employees for LoL's fans.

When workers at a steel mill in Dongguan rioted after learning about a new round of job losses, the mob beat a senior manager to death.