Press Release Source: Variety On Monday June 6, 2011, 7:00 am EDT
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Sports Entertainment Summit, co-produced by Variety and the Sports Video Group, will be highlighted by keynote conversations with leading industry executives Peter Guber, Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, Casey Wasserman, CEO of the Wasserman Media Group, and John Skipper, ESPN EVP of Content.
June 13, 2011 4:24PM
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Press Release Source: Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity on Friday June 10, 2011, 10:00 am EDT
LOS ANGELES, June 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — more than 1,000 celebrity, entertainment industry, and executive volunteers are expected to turn out over the next week to help Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (HFH GLA) and its sponsors build eight affordable, sustainable homes as part of the Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity (HFHFH) program. the week-long build sponsored by Lowe’s, will take place June 10 – June 18 and will feature special build events including today’s Executive Build, four Hollywood build days and the Lowe’s Power Women, Power Tools build. This event will bring together some of the most powerful voices in Hollywood and top corporations to address the affordable housing crisis in Los Angeles and provide a hands-on solution for families in the City of Burbank. Other sponsors include Bernards, Celebrating Home and the Walt Disney Company.
The Korea-based advertising agency that set up base in India last year, has won a couple of important businesses of LG Electronics in the recent past; the aim is to handle the complete portfolio in the next two-three years.
For LG Ad, there are multiple ways to function, and one such preferred route is through partnerships. The agency is thus looking at a global collaboration, for which talks are on.
LOS ANGELES — Jack Tretton, president and chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment America, started out Sony’s E3 press conference by acknowledging the elephant in the room.
That would be the massive outage and security attack on the PlayStation Network. Tretton apologized to consumers and industry partners and said the network is now more than 90 percent restored.