Word: comcasts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When we were launching Halo 2 , you'd spend half your meetings with brands educating them on the video-game business," says Chris Di Cesare, director of creative marketing at Microsoft. "People still thought, 'Ah, it's this thing for kids.' Now my partners are Pepsi, Burger King, Pontiac, Comcast. And it's not me selling them anymore." There's an opportunity, in other words, to decloak the Halo subculture, to turn it from invisible to visible...
...specialized first in platform gaming exclusively, holding contests and establishing official rankings. In addition to being shown on USA, MLG matches are televised on Comcast's on-demand service as well as on the MLG website. But more important, MLG landed some big corporate fish as sponsors, including Boost Mobile, Toyota and Gamestop. That made the prize pool big enough to allow many gamers to quit their...
...modified. City wireless is set to become a $1.2 billion market by 2010, according to analyst firm ABI Research; AT&T, Verizon and Sprint Nextel spin-off Embarq are looking to cash in, snapping up their own municipal deals in places like Springfield, Ill., and Riverside, Calif. And Comcast Ventures has invested in BelAir Networks, a Canadian vendor of wireless equipment...
...Coakley committee days before her election win. In the past, criticism has been heaped on Reilly for accepting donations from this same healthcare provider while simultaneously having business dealings with it. To provide another example, within months of being fined $1 million by Reilly for misleading business practices, Comcast executives and lobbyists unloaded over $3+,000 into Coakley’s warchest...
...Attorney General spearheads judicial investigations, and it is a central tenet of the judicial system that all are equal before the law. How can one be certain that the Attorney General’s office will investigate impartially if it receives payoffs from companies that are frequently investigated like Comcast? To put it simply, there are often clear-cut right or wrong answers about what an Attorney General should investigate; the same cannot be said about whether a legislator should support a bill...