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Bill Werde, Billboard Magazine editorial director, discusses how technology is changing the business of music.
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The world’s biggest gambling nations include plenty of unlikely candidates. Read on to find out the countries with the biggest losers and the boldest gamblers.
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MoviePass wants to apply the subscription model that worked so well for Netflix to movie theater tickets. But it cancelled the trial Thursday night in the midst of conflict with theaters. And now it looks like MoviePass' business could blow up before it begins.
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Social game company Zynga has finally filed for an IPO to raise $1 billion, which may be one of the biggest IPOs of the year. As CNBC reported earlier this week, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are the company's lead underwriters, with Merrill Lynch, Barclays and Allen & Co. also participating.
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The $ 2.2 billion Indian movie industry that churns out 1,200 movies a year, employs over 1.8 million people and has more than 14 million theatre viewers a day, is groaning under its own weight.
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Paramount is wasting no time driving moviegoers to 3-D screenings of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon." Director Michael Bay has been personally campaigning to draw moviegoers to the new format, by communicating directly with fans and campaigning for theater chains to project the film with more light.
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Citing the company's "best-in-class operating trends" and ability to turn around the NBC broadcast business, Goldman Sachs has added Comcast to its conviction buy list and increased its price target.
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"Mainstream companies, of course, are often too risk-averse to emulate the porn industry’s embrace of new media. But even if you’re not ready to make the leap, it is worth paying attention to the porn industry – the latest tech trends in porn are a strong predictor of the next big thing for mainstream," writes the author.
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"O + (N x S) + Cpm/T + He" is a formula developed by Cliff Arnall, former tutor and research psychologist at Cardiff University, to determine people's happiness.
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In case you missed Monday night's episode of "The Bachelorette" here's how an investment banker breaks the girl's heart.
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Ignition Entertainment is finishing work on "El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron," based on the Book of Enoch, an ancient text that, while not a part of either the Jewish or Christian canon, is printed in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Soon after Apple started its music-centric social network Ping last year, Steven P. Jobs reached out to Lady Gaga and her business manager, Troy Carter, for feedback, the New York Times reports.
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Which cases of product placement in the movies have really worked? Click ahead to see 10 of the most notable product placement success stories.
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Amazon, Google and Apple are among the companies that will fight to dominate the consumer cloud technology space, primarily through music storage platforms.
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Osama bin Laden is dead ... Except at SC Village Paintball in Corona, California.
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You still can't use people's names in Scrabble — but according to the latest update of one major Scrabble dictionary, words like "Grrl" and "Innit" are just fine.
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After a series of false starts, the owner of Penthouse magazine and over two dozen adult Websites is finally going public.
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The business world has served as the backdrop for some of the most entertaining movies ever made. Click to see 14 of the most iconic monologues about business in cinema history.
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As the repercussions and scope of recent cyberattacks continue to grow, Sony's problems are mounting.
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See what's happening, who's talking and what will be making headlines on Tuesday's "Squawk on the Street."
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Cliff Asness, the managing partner of AQR Capital Management (one of the world's biggest hedge funds), has sent an email urging friends to see the film "Atlas Shrugged," the adaptation of the novel by Ayn Rand.