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Entertainment Industry: Information, News, and Companies and Events

Entertainment Industry
Information, News, and Companies and Events

SPi News: News, Companies and Events

entertainmentSPi's entertainment industry channel covers breaking celebrity, music and fashion news from around the world, international corporate profiles and market research reports. The entertainment industry (also informally known as show business or show biz) consists of a large number of sub-industries devoted to entertainment. However, the term is often used in the mass media to describe the mass media companies that control the distribution and manufacture of mass media entertainment. In the popular parlance, the term show biz in particular connotes the commercially popular performing arts, especially musical theatre, vaudeville, comedy, film, and music.

Breaking Entertainment Industry News
Third Point raises Sony stake, presses for entertainment spin-off

TOKYO (Reuters) - New York-based hedge fund company Third Point said it had raised its stake in Japan's Sony Corp and asked for an opportunity to present its proposal to Sony's board for a partial spin-off of the company's entertainment unit. The move comes after Third Point, a $13 billion hedge fund founded by billionaire investor Daniel Loeb, last month proposed that the struggling electronics maker conduct an initial public ...
from: Yahoo Business News Feed

More Breaking Entertainment Industry News

This morning Yahoo Business News Feed notes; "Third Point raises Sony stake, presses entertainment spin-off" and Clear Channel Media and Entertainment via Businesswire announced that "Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Names Nathan Daschle Executive Vice President for Political Strategy". Earlier today, "Menchie’s to Get “Smurfed” This Summer in Celebration of Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Animation’s “The Smurfs™ 2” with Its First-Ever Entertainment-Themed Promotion" wrote Menchie’s via Businesswire

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