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Company hires Morgan Stanley and Citigroup to look into a separate entertainment IPO
Read More »Sony mulls spin off proposal
Executives consider dividing company's entertainment assets for new IPO
Read More »Sony considering split of entertainment and electronics divisions
The bigwigs at Sony are currently discussing a proposal to split the corporation’s entertainment and electronics divisions into two separate entities. Bloomberg reports the firm is considering whether or not to adopt billionaire investor Daniel Loeb’s proposal for an initial public offering of its entertainment business – which includes all …
Read More »Xbox One to launch worldwide this year
Microsoft's next Xbox heads for release battle with Sony's PS4
Read More »Microsoft confirms Xbox One won’t be ‘always-on’
Don Mattrick says console will not require permanent internet connection to play games
Read More »Amazon boosts its entertainment market share as GAME drops 3%
Supermarkets and Amazon have boosted their entertainment market share at the expense of GAME and HMV. Kantar Worldpanel’s Entertainment Retailer Barometer report states that Amazon made the biggest market share gains for the 12 weeks ending March 17th 2013. The numbers include sales of physical video games, games and digital …
Read More »Charlotte Harrington named as new Tesco entertainment boss
The UK’s leading supermarket Tesco has named Charlotte Harrington as its new home entertainment and books boss. She was until this month working as Tesco’s multi-channel general merchandise boss – a position she had held since October 2012. Prior to that Harrington worked as Tesco’s toys, nursey and sport category …
Read More »Future’s consumer reach hits record high
The latest ABC numbers from Future Entertainment show that the publishing company now reaches a higher global audience than ever before. As a whole the company’s publications now reach 20.2m people, a 29 per cent year-on-year increase. The figure includes duplicates, however, gathering together ABCs, unique users, digital subscribers, social …
Read More »Google’s entertainment manager heads to Weve
Warren Mills will leave Google for a role at mobile commerce firm Weve at the end of the month. Mills was Google’s industry manager for entertainment. At Weve, which is a joint venture between mobile operators EE, Vodafone and O2, he will assume the role of entertainment partnerships manager and …
Read More »Lee Nutter becomes Future’s group publisher for entertainment
Future has promoted Lee Nutter to the position of group publisher for the entertainment group. He moves having most recently served on Total Film and Official Nintendo Magazine. Nutter has been at Future since 2003 where he joined as editor of PSW. This well deserved promotion reflects the work Lee …
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