entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention.

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SeatGeek: Payments Orchestration Plays Maestro To Live Event Business Comeback
SeatGeek: Payments Orchestration Plays Maestro To Live Event Business Comeback
March 24, 2021  |  Payment Methods

After a little over a year of being on lockdown, people are ready to get back out there. That is the takeaway from a PYMNTS...

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Microsoft Eyes $10 Billion Acquisition Of Digital Communications Platform Discord
Microsoft Eyes $10 Billion Acquisition Of Digital Communications Platform Discord
March 23, 2021  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Voice, video and text communications platform Discord is being eyed by Microsoft for a possible $10 billion-plus acquisition, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (March 23). Microsoft Xbox...

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In A Year Without Live Music, Streaming, NFTs Fuel Industry Growth
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March 23, 2021  |  Innovation

The international recorded music market expanded by 7.4 percent last year while much of the globe was on lockdown and live, in-person music was not...

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ByteDance Acquires Mobile Games Maker Moonton Technology
ByteDance Acquires Mobile Games Maker Moonton Technology
March 23, 2021  |  Acquiring

ByteDance stepped further into the video game world this week, with its gaming arm, Nuverse, acquiring the Shanghai games maker Moontoon Technology. According to Reuters,...

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Subscriptions In Prime Time: Amazon Scores NFL Deal
Subscriptions In Prime Time: Amazon Scores NFL Deal
March 22, 2021  |  Amazon Entertainment

Starting in 2023, Amazon will be handing over somewhere in the neighborhood of a cool billion a year to the NFL for the exclusive rights...

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Hooray For Hollywood: Movie Theaters Draw Crowds In LA
March 21, 2021  |  Economy

Los Angles, following New York by two weeks, reopened movie theaters this weekend (March 19 and 20) — and to the extent they were allowed...

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March 19, 2021  |  Mobile Applications

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Motion Picture Association: Streaming Soars Amid Box Office Free Fall
Motion Picture Association: Streaming Soars Amid Box Office Free Fall
March 18, 2021  |  Subscriptions

A new report from the Motion Picture Association (MPA) showed that, although the pandemic decimated 2020 box office numbers, subscriptions for streaming services topped 1...

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Hold Please: Online Gambling Firm 888 CEO Weighs IPO
Hold Please: Online Gambling Firm 888 CEO Weighs IPO
March 18, 2021  |  IPO

888 Holdings, an online gambling outlet, is looking at ways to tap U.S. investors, including the possibility of going public, Bloomberg reported. The enticing valuations...

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