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With only three trading days left in 2021, the results are in: Yahoo Finance users visited the AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) ticker page 194,914,925 times this year — making it the site’s top trending ticker of 2021.  Here are the top 10 tickers rounding out the list. 1. AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) Edging out Tesla by a cool 30 million views, it’s fitting that AMC would land on top of the heap — and not entirely surprising — in a year where retail traders arose to become an… Source link

The Grammy Award-Winning Musician to Speak at School’s Industry Expert Speaker Series BROOKLYN, N.Y., June 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Grammy Award-winning musician and entrepreneur Megan Thee Stallion announced plans to provide a full-tuition, four-year scholarship for a student looking to pursue their education at the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports and Entertainment at Long Island University. Prospective students looking to enroll in the program – starting in the Fall 2021 semester… Source link

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Verizon already offers the best value in entertainment, and it just got even better with an amazing new deal guaranteed to bolster your mobile gaming library with hundreds of new titles. Starting May 25, new and existing customers get six months of Apple Arcade or Google Play Pass, ($4.99/mo. value) on us with any unlimited plan or 12 months on us with “Play More” or “Get More” plans1,2. Verizon Mix & Match Unlimited gives you more of what you love — on us —… Source link

Android tablets still exist, somehow. And people may still be buying them, for some reason. All of this in spite of Google’s best efforts to simply ignore the form factor completely for the past few years, and we don’t mean just by not releasing any more of its own tablets, but also in not adapting Android to the bigger screen sizes at all. Today the search giant has suddenly remembered that Android tablets exist, and has thus announced a new feature, just for Android tablets. Can you… Source link

Google Google on Wednesday announced the launch of a new entertainment hub for Android tablets… Source link

Android tablets may have been in decline, but it seems like the pandemic made us care about them again. According to Google, in the last year, “we’ve seen over 30 percent more people start using Android tablets compared to the prior year.” To make these devices potentially more useful, the company is announcing a new feature today called Entertainment Space that serves as a portal for all the media apps you’ve installed.  In a blog post, product manager for Google Play James Bender wrote… Source link

‘Prince Charles sausage fingers’ is the seventh most popular Google search in the UK. According to website Cornwall Live, the cheeky phrase has made it into the top 10 most popular queries submitted on the search engine in Britain, while ‘Prince Charles fingers’ is the 20th most popular. The reason for the popularity of the search is because the Prince of Wales – who also holds the title of Duke of Cornwall – suffers from a condition called… Source link

AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm. Wireless company Verizon will sell Verizon Media, which consists of the once-pioneering tech platforms, to Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion deal. Verizon said Monday that it will keep a 10% stake in the new company, which will be called Yahoo. Yahoo at the end of the last century was the face of the internet, preceding the behemoth tech platforms to follow, such as Google and… Source link

Bloomberg U.K.’s Giant Battery Factory Developer Looks for a SPAC Deal (Bloomberg) — Britishvolt Ltd., the developer of the first giant battery factory in the U.K., is considering going public.The company has appointed Guggenheim Securities LLC and Barclays Plc as advisers to look into options including listing in the U.S. through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, Orral Nadjari, founder and chief executive officer of Britishvolt, said in an interview. The deal… Source link

Dalian Wanda, which acquired AMC Entertainment in 2012, surrendered control of the struggling exhibitor as it issued and sold tranches of new stock to raise cash — diluting the stake of the Chinese conglomerate. CEO Adam Aron confirmed the Wanda era was over although the company continues to be AMC largest single largest shareholder. Wanda holds less than 10% of the world’s biggest cinema chain. “They have been absolutely delightful,” he said on a post-earnings conference call… Source link