It is difficult to overstate the radical transformation that is underway in the entertainment and media industries.
Over the long term, the question about social media is not whether it will change communication, collaboration, commerce, entertainment and media.
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Then there are earnings, which will include biotech firm Schering-Plough, courier UPS, entertainment and media company Walt Disney, and food-chain conglomerate Yum!
The magazine publishers are right, but the newspaper publishers are not, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers, which just released its annual global entertainment and media outlook.
The package missed the real news, which is that the underlying technologies of social media are transforming the nature of commerce, communication, collaboration, entertainment and media.
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Our relationship with the Academy is a tremendous source of pride for PwC and epitomizes our long-standing association with Hollywood and the entertainment and media industry.
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In the coming years, Asia will record the highest growth rate of all regions in the entertainment and media industry, with more than a 9% compound annual growth rate.
In fact, Price Waterhouse Coopers, in their Global Entertainment and Media Outlook report, projects that e-books will make up 50 percent of the U.S. trade book market by 2016.
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Jay Fragus is an attorney in Los Angeles, focusing on sports and entertainment law where he handles various aspects of entertainment and media transactions and the negotiation of sponsorship and endorsement agreements.
Kilroy said the vacancies are largely in older buildings, while Kilroy is betting entertainment and media companies need more modern office space and that tenants want to work in unique environments like Columbia Square.
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On the theory that there is now a 1-in-3 chance that the U.S. economy could fall into a double-dip recession, Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen this morning turned cautious on the entertainment and media stocks.
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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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This should provide all the capital the company needs to continue along its current transformation from a specialty retailer of new and used videogames to a more general seller of new and pre-owned electronic entertainment and media products.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is the world's largest diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with five business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media.
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Dr. S. Robert Lichter is Professor of Communications at George Mason University, where he also directs the Center for Media and Public Affairs, which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media, and the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), which works to improve the quality of statistical and scientific information in the news.
Limited government, traditional values and personal responsibility have been so disparaged by schools, the entertainment complex and media that Republicans feel compelled to temper their message.
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Branded entertainment and social media will become much more important this time around.
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The three major console-makers, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony, have been making moves to encompass other forms of entertainment and social media.
Disney is widely known as the conglomerate giant that has blossomed into something akin to an empire in entertainment and the media.
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"We're not interested in taking you away from our site, " says Anthony Soohoo, who heads entertainment and social media programming at CBS Interactive.
General Electric ( GE - news - people )'s cable channels, Spanish-language Telemundo network and NBC's TV distribution units in addition NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios.
Using the latest available filings, FORBES took a close look at 145 tax-exempt organizations created by, named after, presided over or heavily supported by celebrities, mainly in sports, entertainment and the media.
Today Mehdi, along with Nancy Tellem, president of entertainment and digital media at Microsoft, participated in a D: Dive into Media session, facilitated by Peter Kafka, to discuss that journey and the opportunities that lie ahead.
Nancy Tellem, who left her role as consultant to CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves to join Microsoft as president of entertainment and digital media, has been busy explaining to Hollywood movie and television studios the opportunities that Xbox 360 and Kinect open up for consumers.
Instead, vast swaths of the social web, including those that many of us now consider essential to daily life, personal and business communication, news and entertainment media, politics, and even social change itself, are owned and managed by corporations that extract value from all that personal information.
Walt Disney Company together with its subsidiaries is a worldwide entertainment Company with operations in five business segments: Media Networks, Parks and Resorts, Studio Entertainment, Consumer Products and Interactive Media.
That will boost the continent's information and entertainment business and allow African media houses such as the Nation Media Group (in the east) and Media24 (in the south) to expand their businesses around digital content tailored to local languages and markets.
The sector, which includes retail chains, hotels, restaurants, and media and entertainment companies among others, is extremely sensitive to conditions like high unemployment and weak consumer spending, but after enduring a bumpy ride for the last few months a rebound may be in the cards.
The two companies would consist of a new News Corp, operating newspapers, information services, publishing and related matters, and a media and entertainment company named Fox Group.
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Soon after the dawn of commerce on the World Wide Web in 1995, a passel of entertainment giants and new-media boutiques tried creating online entertainment, to little effect.
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