In addition to the top-line benefits noted above, we can achieve bottom-line benefits by combining Take-Two's and EA's corporate and publishing infrastructures and by optimally supporting Take-Two's creative teams and intellectual properties in EA's decentralized label structure.

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Lucasfilm, and more specifically the Star Wars franchise, fits perfectly within the Disney portfolio of intellectual properties and the strategic and financial implications of this acquisition are compelling.

ENGADGET: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion, plans more Star Wars movies

The business model, intellectual properties, and the franchise potential of Angry Birds give Rovio the most exciting prospects I have seen in the entertainment business since Marvel in 2003.

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"Hire a good lawyer and make sure these people sign agreements about intellectual properties, " advises Olivier Toubia, assistant professor at Columbia University's business school.

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The dispute coincides with Microsoft's efforts to force smartphone makers to pay it fees for the use of intellectual properties it claims ownership to, and which are used by Google's Android system.

BBC: Xbox ban: Motorola unable to enforce Microsoft ban

Just as music and movie companies cannot easily lock down the digital security of their intellectual properties in the great moving tide of bits, we as individuals have lost the lockdown control of our identities that people took for granted 20 years ago.

ENGADGET: Editorial: We, the digitally naked