13 media executives make 2024 predictions

NYT Columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and C.E.O. of The Walt Disney Company Bob Iger speak during the New York Times annual DealBook summit on November 29, 2023 in New York City.  Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s the third annual anonymous media and entertainment executive predictions … Read more

Public gaming companies sit on $45 billion cash hoard, Konvoy says

Gamers play the video game “Star Wars Battlefront II” during the “Paris Games Week” on Oct. 31, 2017. Chesno Publicly listed gaming companies are sitting on a $45 billion pile of cash and cash equivalents — and that could lead to greater consolidation in the $188 billion video games market, according to a new report … Read more

‘EA Sports FC 24’ Is Just ‘FIFA 24’ in a Different Jersey

Breakups are hard. They can also be freeing. Just ask the producers of EA Sports FC 24. After a messy divorce, the long-running video game FIFA has got a rebrand, bringing a 30-year relationship to an end. In 2021, soccer’s governing body said it would refuse to let EA Sports continue to use the FIFA … Read more

Here is the place Saudi Arabia’s PIF has invested

PIF (Public Funding Fund) Managing Director Yasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan attends the Russian-Saudi Funding Discussion board held on the Ritz-Carlton Moscow Lodge. Sergei Bobylev | TASS through Getty Photos Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, referred to as the Public Funding Fund or PIF, is an energetic participant in U.S. private and non-private markets. In contrast … Read more