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Fintech Focus Roundup For December 19, 2020
Friday, December 18, 2020 - 5:57pm | 1242Read More...Chase Digital's Allison Beer On Disruptive Trends The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital finance trends. That’s according to Allison Beer, the head of Chase Digital, JPMorgan Chase & Co’s digital banking and innovation arm. Over her career in financial services at...
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Fintech Focus For December 17, 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - 5:26pm | 2091Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Pricing an IPO is more of an art than a science. Source: Ran Ben-Tzur One Big Thing In Fintech: A massive delta exists between public and private assets. That’s according to Solomon Tesfaye, the vice president of business development and capital markets at tZero Group...
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Exclusive: Marketing Pro Craig Greiwe On How The Biggest Personalities, Media Houses Like Lionsgate Can Grow During The Pandemic
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - 8:10am | 1542Read More...The pandemic devastated the global economy, forcing businesses and content providers to rethink their marketing and communications strategies. In unpacking how the biggest personalities and organizations like Lionsgate, DreamWorks, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC), Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:...
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San Diego Comic-Con Recap: Here Is What We Learned
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 9:49am | 361Read More...The city of San Diego hosted 130,000 attendees for its Comic-Con 2016 convention. While the event is typically a fan favorite for comic book and movie fanatics, investors can use the event to check in on the many movie studio and media companies that are publicly traded corporations. Cnet has a...
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Here's Why Lions Gate Is A 'Mini Disney'
Friday, August 7, 2015 - 7:40am | 501Read More...Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (USA) (NYSE: LGF) reported a fiscal first quarter 2016 adjusted EPS of $0.26, higher than the Street estimates. Sales arrived at $408.9 million. Some investors might have expected this report to attract new buyers, but Wall Street wasn't overly impressed. The...
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M&A Talk Boosts Shares Of Starz Higher
Monday, November 24, 2014 - 11:14am | 246Read More...Shares of Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA) traded higher on Monday morning after reports surfaced over the weekend that the company is considering a sale of itself. The New York Post reported Friday evening that Starz is seeking around $5 billion in a potential sale of itself and the company has drawn...
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Markets End Hectic Week On Positive Note
Friday, October 24, 2014 - 4:16pm | 1129Read More...U.S. markets rose on Friday, ending a four-week slide for the major indices despite ongoing Ebola-related scares. Investors found enough positives in earnings reports from Dow listed Microsoft and Procter & Gamble to justify a triple-point gain in the Dow. The S&P 500 posted its best week...
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Weekly Highlights: iPhone 6 Sapphire Glass Delay, Peregrine Soars On Buyout Offer And More
Sunday, August 24, 2014 - 5:42pm | 229Read More...Could Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) next iPhone ship without a key feature? A new report claims that its indestructible sapphire screen may not be ready in time for the device's September launch. Elsewhere in tech news, Peregrine Semiconductor (NASDAQ: PSMI) received a buyout deal from Murata...
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3 Companies That Should Grab Xbox Entertainment Studios
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 10:02am | 737Read More...Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is rumored to be interested in acquiring Xbox Entertainment Studios from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Few analysts were interested in talking to Benzinga about the rumor, which may turn out to be completely false given Microsoft's official statement on the matter....
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Can 'Divergent' Overcome Its Significant Lack Of Twitter Chatter?
Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 11:05am | 1026Read More...Lionsgate's (NYSE: LGF) next big franchise might not be as big as some investors expect. Set for release Friday, March 21, Divergent looks like the kind of film that viewers might expect from the studio that produced The Hunger Games. But while the film itself may be entirely different, the...
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Will Lionsgate's 'Divergent' Become The Next 'Twilight' Or 'Hunger Games'?
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:22am | 780Read More...Lionsgate's (NYSE: LGF) The Hunger Games proved to be a big hit with moviegoers and investors alike. But can the studio's next book-to-film franchise, Divergent, provide a similar degree of success? Early media hype indicates the answer is, yes. According to The Hollywood Reporter,...
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Using Social Media To Cash In On Lionsgate And 'The Hunger Games'
Friday, February 28, 2014 - 4:00pm | 765Read More...Were you one of the lucky investors to notice Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) before its first blockbuster was released? Chris Camillo, a self-directed investor and author of Laughing at Wall Street, became interested in the company after recognizing the potential for The Hunger Games. "There was a point...
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'Prisoners' Captures #1 Spot With $21 Million
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 1:56pm | 473Read More...Prisoners, the Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) hostage drama starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis, led the box office after defeating FilmDistrict's Insidious Chapter 2. Directed by James Wan, the second Insidious earned an estimated $14.5 million -- 64 percent less than what the firm...
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CBS Buys TV Guide Digital After Six Years of Website Growth (CBS, LGF)
Friday, May 31, 2013 - 3:27pm | 438Read More...TVGuide.com may not be as informative as Variety or as entertaining as Entertainment Weekly, but when viewers want to know what's on television, TV Guide leads the pack. The site has experienced double-digit growth over the last six years. It is now visited by more than 16.5 million individuals...
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Another Great Weekend for Movie Studios With 'Iron Man 3'
Monday, May 13, 2013 - 8:37am | 508Read More...Last weekend, we reported that Disney (NYSE: DIS) had to be doing the collective happy dance after Iron Man 3, the third installment in the Iron Man franchise brought in an impressive $175 million domestically and $623 million internationally. This was so impressive that it placed the film as...
