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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David Beckham Scores With Guild Esports IPO
David Beckham Scores With Guild Esports IPO
October 02, 2020  |  IPO

Three months after its global launch, soccer star David Beckham’s startup Guild Esports has been listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), valued at about 40...

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Subscription Merchants Navigate Post-COVID Trends
Subscription Merchants Navigate Post-COVID Trends
October 01, 2020  |  Subscription Commerce

By now, we all know about the runaway success of streaming entertainment services like Disney+, which had nearly 61 million paying subscribers by late July,...

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Mulan’s Big Win Shows Disney+ Has Potential As An eCommerce Ecosystem
Mulan’s Big Win Shows Disney+ Has Potential As An eCommerce Ecosystem
September 21, 2020  |  Retail

We saw a tale of two big Labor Day weekend releases this year: Disney’s Mulan and Christopher Nolan’s time travel-thriller Tenant. Both were billed as 2020’s big...

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Microsoft Game-Streaming Service Goes Live
Microsoft Game-Streaming Service Goes Live
September 15, 2020  |  Internet of Things

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday (Sept. 15) announced that its game-streaming service XCloud is now available to users of Google’s Android service, but not to Apple...

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix
What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix
September 14, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has written a new book about building the video-streaming powerhouse that now has nearly 200 million subscribers globally, as...

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Home Reorganization Becomes Big Business In A Stay-At-Home World
Home Reorganization Becomes Big Business In A Stay-At-Home World
September 12, 2020  |  Retail

Long before COVID-19 turned us all into homebodies, Netflix kicked off a home organization craze with the premiere of decluttering guru Marie Kondo’s show, “Tidying...

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Netflix To Offer Some Free Shows To Hike Market Share
Netflix To Offer Some Free Shows To Hike Market Share
August 31, 2020  |  Retail

Netflix has unveiled a new service that allows consumers who are not subscribers to watch select shows for free. The streaming service is looking to...

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Preventing Payroll, Insurance Pains From Killing The Movie Magic
Preventing Payroll, Insurance Pains From Killing The Movie Magic
August 31, 2020  |  B2B Payments

After months of total shutdown, the entertainment industry is slowly grinding its gears again, with some added challenges to protect talent and crew from COVID-19....

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18,000 Furloughed MGM Resorts Employees Laid Off
18,000 Furloughed MGM Resorts Employees Laid Off
August 28, 2020  |  Personnel

MGM Resorts International CEO William Hornbuckle delivered bad news to his 18,000 furloughed U.S. employees on Friday (Aug. 28): They will not be invited back to work....

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