"Everybody is out there trying to replace the former function of the floor broker, " says Steve Sanders, a managing director and head of business development at Interactive Brokers.
The Prototype Fund is a UK-wide scheme supported by the European Regional Development Fund, Scottish government and Abertay University to help firms launch new companies and test out business opportunities in interactive media.
Kevin Hause, who tracks interactive business for IDC, thinks that it is too soon to say whether Sun will be able to dominate the cable set-top box market, as cable operators are hedging their bets on various operating systems.
Don Mattrick, president of the interactive entertainment business, talks about how kinect will be sold in bundles.
He was appointed general manager of interactive entertainment business at Microsoft in 2011.
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Each year the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and the Michigan Interactive Investments (MII) Club sponsor an intercollegiate stock pitch competition.
We ve updated and added new types of hardware, and we ve grown our roster of content partners, says Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft s Interactive Entertainment Business.
Don Mattrick, senior vice president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, said there would be several more games available at the launch, including products from well-known studio brands.
"With her impressive background in entertainment innovation, I am thrilled to have Nancy join our team, " said Don Mattrick, president of the Interactive Entertainment Business Group at Microsoft.
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Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business.
Peter Moore, corporate vice president of the Interactive Entertainment Business in the Entertainment and Devices Division of Microsoft, described Xbox Live recently as the "key weapon" in the next generation console battle.
"Yes, we started with video games, but we have been on a journey to make Xbox the center of every household's entertainment, " says Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business.
"The launch of Xbox Music is a milestone in simplifying digital music on every type of device and on a global scale, " said Don Mattrick, president of the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft.
"This is an incredible time of growth and innovation for our business leveraging technologies that see us, hear us and connect us all together, " said Don Mattrick, president of the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft.
Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, just sat down alongside Nancy Tellem, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft LA Studios, to kick off this year's rendition of D:Dive Into Media here in Dana Point, California.
"By combining Nike's understanding and knowledge of great athletes with the powerful technology of Kinect, we have created a personal training program unlike anything currently available, " said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of Marketing and Strategy of the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft.
"With the release of AIR 2.5 more than three million Flash developers can now build a single game or application and easily deploy it across multiple application stores and devices, " said David Wadhwani, senior vice president, Creative and Interactive Solutions Business at Adobe.
Meanwhile, other interactive TV firms like TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ), Liberate Technologies (nasdaq: LBRTE - news - people ) and OpenTV (nasdaq: OPTV - news - people ), have demonstrated how brutal the interactive TV business is: Not one is profitable.
Reporting into Phil Harrison, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business (EMEA), the new studio's remit will be to develop a long-term business with Entertainment as a Service at its core, with a focus on Windows 8 tablet devices as the underlying technology and platforms as part of Microsoft Studios' continued expansion across the region.
"It's probably the biggest entertainment franchise in the world, " said Dennis Durkin, corporate vice president in Microsoft's interactive-entertainment business.
They are hoping to entice millions of customers into doing business through Open, an interactive service designed for digital television transmission.
For years, people in the conference business have been advocating the application of interactive event concepts (think of open space, bar camps, unconferences).
This interactive map plots short videos from small business owners who have started or grown a business and used an SBA service.
They took technology to another level to do business in a new and innovative way, and they were interactive with their constituents.
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The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with five business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, interactive media, and consumer products.
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Last weekend, students from 23 schools gathered at the Ross School of Business and they participated in the 5th annual stock pitch competition organized by the Michigan Interactive Investments Club.
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"Theatre is such a fickle business, but is hard to know what has happened, " he told BBC News Interactive.
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While formal lectures and study of business cases remain vital components, growing numbers of academic institutions are putting more emphasis on interactive learning.
In May 2007 Kempton formed a coalition of utility and energy experts--Mid-Atlantic Grid Interactive Cars, or Magic--and sought funding to prove the V2G business model.
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