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HHW Gaming: Kratos & Atreus’ Adventure in ‘God of War’ Being Adapted Into An Amazon Prime Video Series
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: PlayStation/ God of War If you were one of the many people who said during your playthrough of 2018’s God of War that “this would make a great television show or movie,” the folks at Amazon have heard you. We are in the middle of a renaissance when turning popular video game franchises into films and television series that are worth watching. Related Stories Per Variety, PlayStation Studios’ smash hit, God of War, has been ordered to series on Amazon Prime Video. Wheel of Time’s TV adaptation creator Rafe Judkins is announced as the showrunner. The God of War show will be skipping Kratos’ Greek adventures and picking things up with the reboot’s 2018 story. In that game, Kratos has put his blood-soaked quest for vengeance against the gods behind him f...
Bahamian attorneys pursue access to FTX data of international customers
Authorities across the globe are fighting against time to bring justice to the millions of people impacted by the financial frauds committed by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. As part of the ongoing investigations, attorneys representing the Securities Commission of the Bahamas seek access to FTX’s database with international customer information. The Bahamian attorneys filed an emergency motion with a Delaware bankruptcy judge requesting access to FTX’s customer database to aid their ongoing investigations. The motion highlighted previous failed attempts to access the defunct crypto exchange’s database. As a result, the lawyers claimed that FTX employees and counsel prevented authorities from getting critical financial information. The database in question is reportedly stored on Amazon Web Se...
How can UK-based businesses accept Bitcoin?
Accepting Bitcoin payments is advantageous due to lower fees than credit and debit cards, expansion of customer base and real-time bank balances. However, risks like volatility and cybercrime may undermine these benefits. Cryptocurrency payments help save excessive credit and debit card processing fees as they are decentralized and do not need intermediaries to verify the transaction. Moreover, merchants do not incur overseas currency exchange changes if payments are made in BTC or other cryptocurrencies. High transaction speed is another benefit of accepting Bitcoin payments, allowing businesses to receive payments in real-time. Moreover, with the increasing customer demand to pay in crypto, offering Bitcoin as a payment method will help acquire more shoppers. However, accepting cryptocur...
Amazon CEO Says Antisemitic Film Kyrie Irving Shared Will Not Be Removed By The Company
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty/ Amazon The antisemitic film Kyrie Irving shared, but more than likely didn’t watch in full, is not leaving Amazon. Spotted on Raw Story per the Associated Press, Amazon CEO says his company will not take down Hebrews To Negroes: Wake Up Black America, the problematic movie that Kyrie Irving suspended by the Brooklyn Nets. Per Raw Story: Andy Jassy said Wednesday that his decision is due to customers having “many viewpoints.” “As a retailer of content to hundreds of millions of customers with a lot of different viewpoints, we have to allow access to those viewpoints, even if they are objectionable — objectionable and they differ from our particular viewpoints,” Jassy said. Jassy went on to say that making decisions about what ...
Jeff Blackburn Retires as Head of Amazon’s Global Entertainment Group
Jeff Blackburn is retiring. The head of Amazon’s Global Entertainment Group will sign off from the company in January after more than two decades with the retail giant and streaming platform. The moves were announced Friday via internal memos from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Blackburn himself. The news comes a year and a half after Blackburn returned from a yearlong sabbatical in a new role as head of the company’s global entertainment group that included combined oversight of music, audio entertainment, games and video for the company. Blackburn’s decision to retire comes after a busy week at Amazon. The e-commerce giant this week fully integrated MGM into its exec ranks after its $8.5 billion purchase of the storied studio closed in May. Amazon Studios head Jennifer Sal...
FTX miniseries gets go ahead, covering the ‘most brazen frauds ever committed’
An eight-episode limited series exploring the unraveling and scandals behind sunken crypto exchange FTX and its leadership is slated to soon begin production. The series has been purchased by technology conglomerate Amazon, and will likely air on Amazon’s video streaming service Prime. It’s understood to be based on “insider reporting” from journalists covering FTX and its founder Sam Bankman-Fried according to a Nov. 23 report from the entertainment magazine Variety. Brothers Joe and Anthony Russo, famed for directing Avengers: Endgame and multiple other Marvel-owned movies are reported to have sold the idea to Amazon and are slated to direct the mini-series. Details are sparse with what direction the series will take, the source material it will draw from, and what time period and people...
Amazon Music Now Offers 100 Million Songs to Prime Members
Amazon Music will expand its ad-free offering for Prime members from 2 million songs to more than 100 million songs, the company announced on Tuesday (November 1). There is one caveat, however: Prime members can only listen on shuffle, unless they upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited. Along with the increased access to music, Amazon announced that Prime members will also have access to a wide-selection of ad-free podcasts, plus a newly launched Podcast Previews feature that lets listeners easily test snippets of episodes to see if they like them. “When Amazon Music first launched for Prime members, we offered an ad-free catalog of 2 million songs, which was completely unique for music streaming at the time,” Steve Boom, vp of Amazon Music, said in a statement. “We continue… to bring eve...
Come Clean: The Best Deals on Robot Vacuums
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Looking for a sale on vacuum cleaners? You’re in luck! Amazon is slashing prices for Prime Day 2.0. The iRobot Rumba i2 vacuums is one of the many deals that you can shop for the Prime Day Early Access sale, which launched on Tuesday (Oct. 11). Whether you plan to buy essentials or start your holiday shopping ahead of Black Friday, Amazon’s two-day sale offers some of the year’s deepest discounts. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Find discounts on must-have electronics such as TV’s, headphones, laptops, no...
European Central Bank chooses Amazon and 4 other firms to prototype digital euro app
The European Central Bank, or ECB, has announced it will be collaborating with five companies for the development of potential digital euro user interfaces. In a Friday announcement, the ECB said it had chosen “Big Four” tech company Amazon, fintech firm Nexi, Spanish digital bank CaixaBank, French payments platform Worldline and the European Payments Initiative, or EPI, to each focus on developing a prototype based on specific use cases of the digital euro. According to the central bank, the firms will create front-end prototypes, which will not be used in later phases of the digital currency project. Source: ECB The ECB chose the five companies based on their fulfilling “specific capabilities” when compared to 50 other front-end developers that responded to the central bank’s...
Publishers, Streamers Reach Deal for Highest Streaming Royalty Rate Ever: Here’s How It Works
Songwriter and publisher U.S. mechanical streaming royalty rates are going up — slowly — to a headline rate of 15.35% of total revenue from 2023-2027. That’s the big news out of Wednesday’s (Aug. 31) joint announcement on the “Phonorecords IV” settlement from the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), the Nashville Songwriters Associations International and the Digital Media Association (DiMA). But how long will it take to get there and at what pace? What are the other conditions? Billboard now has more more key details about the deal. Under the new settlement agreement — which the NMPA touts will set the “highest royalty rate in the history of streaming anywhere” — the headline rate will escalate from 15.1% of revenue in 2023 to 15.2% in 2024 and then a half a percentage point inc...
Pick n Pay Joins Forces with AWS Cloud
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Amazon Introduces Layaway Plans on Select Items
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. You can now purchase items on layaway at Amazon. The mega-retailer introduced payment plans on thousands of Amazon Layaway items, including furniture, home entertainment, laptops and PCs, cameras and camera accessories, sports and exercise gear, lawn and garden essentials, electronics, musical instruments and more. No credit check, no interest, no cancellation or restocking fees. Before you get started, here’s what you need to know about the payment plan. Note: Amazon Layaway is not yet available for orders shipping to CT, DC, IL, MD, OH and PA. How Doe...
