How The apos;magazine Queen apos; Transformed Future Into A £2.2bn Empire

Sept 27 (Reuters) - Space and Time, a decentralized data analytics platform, secured $20 million in funding from a group of investors led by Microsoft venture capital arm M12, valuing the company at $300 million.

'This is the funfair, exactly like you don't remember. With every game hooked up to innovative RFID wristband tech, and a bespoke app that logs gamers' scores, tracks leader boards and takes bragging rights to a whole new level.'

The company, which aims to run analytics on data stored on blockchain as well as outside of it for smart contracts, plans to use the funding to hire more engineers, said Nate Holiday, co-founder, Space and Time.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Byng-Thorne said: 'We have built a consistent track record of doubling our business every couple of years, and are excited about our ability to sustain our growth as we aim to reach one in two people online in the US. 

Roddy Davidson, from Shore Capital, said Byng-Thorne and her team deserve 'a lot of credit' for their turnaround of the business. And she has been rewarded handsomely, taking home £35.6million in the past eight years.

Outside the stadium, I met a 33-year-old Ghanaian tarmacking a jogging track encircling one of the training pitches — one of many last-minute tasks that must be completed before November 20, to show Qatar in the best light.

Telling me the story of her mother's trailblazing emancipation with evident pride, she seemed to epitomise a new generation of enlightened Qataris: just the type of woman the emir and his clan purport to admire.

"While Stadia's approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn't gained the traction with users that we expected," Phil Harrison, vice president and general manager of Stadia, said in a blog post.

A few weeks ago, when Beckham's new paymasters released his first promotional film — a breezy, cheesy videoblog aimed at boosting Qatar as a stopover tourist destination — he just had to be seen eating a traditional breakfast cooked by the legendary Madam Shams.

"There is massive amounts of data and use cases coming from blockchain technology's multi-chain world, and insights and data from centralized data stores ... and Space and Time sits at the bridge that links them," Holiday said.

Every man has his price, as Sir Robert Walpole is reputed to have said, and richer men than Beckham, 47, would doubtless have been drawn in by the offer of £150 million. But why were the Qataris so eager to hire his services?

The Qataris have clearly fallen for Beckham's wholesome English image — several people have told me how impressed they were that he queued for hours to see the Queen lying in state — and think he can bring families flocking to the bazaars and beaches.

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google said on Thursday it would wind down its consumer gaming service, Stadia, as it failed to attract enough interest from gamers after nearly three years of being launched.

website Stadia was launched in 2019 along with an internal game development unit that was expected to make titles for the platform. (Reporting by Tiyashi Datta and Savyata Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)

On Monday, however, the former England captain had an appointment with a very different kind of ‘spice girl': a 60-year-old woman whose homespun entrepreneurship has made her an icon for progressive women throughout the Middle East.

Kwasi dashes for growth: The new Chancellor is determined to... China buyout of chip firm 'to be reversed': Rees-Mogg plots... US inflation shock puts rocket under dollar as Fed looks set... Analysts cast doubt over £74bn Porsche valuation as sports...

Her pay has attracted criticism, however. At Future's past two shareholder meetings, it has faced significant rebellions over a bonus package which could net Byng-Thorne, already one of Britain's best paid chief executives, up to £40million.
People may not be arrested for showing the first signs of non-heterosexual behaviour, though who knows how the authorities might use the hi-tech surveillance system I was shown in the Nasa-like command centre that will monitor the eight World Cup stadiums?

Davidson said the latest update showed the 'unjustifiable' fall in Future's shares was driven by market jitters, not the performance of the business, adding: Https://classifieds.lt/ 'The business has transformed from a publisher heavily reliant on print advertising to a multi-platform media business generating the largest proportion of its revenue from digital advertising.'

But the 'magazine queen' - as she has been dubbed - has since transformed the publisher into a £2.2billion empire of 250 titles including everything from Country Life and Marie Claire to TechRadar and FourFourTwo.

'Rather than offering magazines designed to cater for mass consumption, there has been a razor-sharp focus on creating respected content on specialist subjects, such as gaming, which has been a big draw for advertising partners.'