Gary Locke, former Us ambassador to China, will advise joint venture between China’s Weying and Lead Capital general partner Johnny Hsu.
Chinese online ticketing platform Weying Technology and Lead Capital general partner Johnny Hsu have launched a Hong Kong-based joint venture, Weying Galaxy Entertainment, to invest in international films.
Hsu has been appointed chairman of Weying Galaxy, while Gary Locke, the former Us ambassador to China, will serve as a special advisor. Lead Capital specialises in mergers and acquisitions in the entertainment and sports industries.
In addition to backing international projects, the new outfit will leverage its marketing and distribution channels to help foreign films increase their box office in mainland China.
Weying Technology, which operates the Yupiaoer (formerly Wepiaoer) ticketing platform, is jointly backed by Tencent, Wanda, China Media Capital (Cmc) and China Culture Investment Fund. The company acquired its major rival, Gewara, in December 2015. As one of China’s biggest ticketing platforms, the company...
Chinese online ticketing platform Weying Technology and Lead Capital general partner Johnny Hsu have launched a Hong Kong-based joint venture, Weying Galaxy Entertainment, to invest in international films.
Hsu has been appointed chairman of Weying Galaxy, while Gary Locke, the former Us ambassador to China, will serve as a special advisor. Lead Capital specialises in mergers and acquisitions in the entertainment and sports industries.
In addition to backing international projects, the new outfit will leverage its marketing and distribution channels to help foreign films increase their box office in mainland China.
Weying Technology, which operates the Yupiaoer (formerly Wepiaoer) ticketing platform, is jointly backed by Tencent, Wanda, China Media Capital (Cmc) and China Culture Investment Fund. The company acquired its major rival, Gewara, in December 2015. As one of China’s biggest ticketing platforms, the company...
- 12/2/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
CNN has hired Jim Sciutto, the former ABC News foreign correspondent who has spent the last year and a half as chief of staff and senior adviser to U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke. Sciutto is CNN’s new Chief National Security Correspondent. Sciutto, who’d previously spent more than a dozen years at ABC News, will report and provide analysis on all aspects of U.S. national security including foreign policy, the military, terrorism, and the intelligence community. “Jim’s vast experience reporting firsthand from around the globe will provide viewers with rich perspective on important stories domestically and abroad,” CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist said today. From the announcement: Sciutto was ABC News’ senior foreign correspondent, based in primarily in London and later, from Washington. In that role, he traveled to and reported from more than 50 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.
- 9/3/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Singapore/Beijing – On April 11, as part of U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke’s Roundtable on Intellectual Property Rights (Ipr) Protection, the Motion Picture Association (Mpa) together with major Chinese online video sites Youku, Sohu, iQiyi, and LeTV unveiled a “Thank You” video featuring nearly 100 of China’s leading actors and filmmakers. Heeding a call from the Mpa, China’s film community turned out in droves to deliver personal messages of thanks to the sites’ hundreds of millions of users and a call for support of legitimate online screen content – with the full backing of China’s burgeoning online video industry. The launch was attended by dignitaries including Ambassador Locke, European Union (EU) Ambassador to China, Markus Ederer, South Korean Ambassador, Lee Kyu-Hyung, and United States Patent & Trademark Office (Uspto) Deputy Director, Teresa Rea. They were joined by Chinese government officials, industry executives and celebrities. “Congratulations to everyone involved in this initiative.
- 4/12/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Two-thousand-double-one came in with the roar of Tiger Mommy and the tragic devastation of Japan’s tsunami. As it continued, the NBA waved farewell to Yao Ming, Gary Locke took a plane to Beijing — and Asians in the library made their cell phones ring. As 2012 begins, here are Tao Jones’s picks for the best, the worst and the most memorable events, individuals and phenomena of the year that was.
People of the Year: Angry men and brainy girls, diplomats,...
People of the Year: Angry men and brainy girls, diplomats,...
- 12/31/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Yesterday afternoon, the government released some results from the 2010 Census. According to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, there are 308,745,538 people who live in America. Actually, a more accurate number is 308,745,537, as your blogger has inside knowledge at least one person who accidentally left his/her uncompleted Census form in Penn Station. Very slightly bloated figure notwithstanding, the country’s population grew more than nine percent in 10 years, a sluggish rate not seen since the 40’s.
- 12/22/2010
- Vanity Fair
It has taken tentative steps in the right direction, with new ambitions to streamline the process and reduce backlog. But until legislation liberates the patent office, its mismanagement continues to amount to a tax on small businesses, say critics.
The Patent Office is in need of reform, say a growing choir of voices--and to fail to do so amounts to a tax on innovation. Currently, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Uspto) suffers from a severe backlog--1.2 million applications stuck in limbo as recently as May, according to Inc. It takes about three years for patents to be reviewed for approval.
We are used to agencies being underfunded and backlogged. But in the case of the Patent Office, the money really should be there. The Patent Office in fact "generates a lot of money" on its own, according to Bijal Vakil, an intellectual property lawyer with the firm White...
The Patent Office is in need of reform, say a growing choir of voices--and to fail to do so amounts to a tax on innovation. Currently, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Uspto) suffers from a severe backlog--1.2 million applications stuck in limbo as recently as May, according to Inc. It takes about three years for patents to be reviewed for approval.
We are used to agencies being underfunded and backlogged. But in the case of the Patent Office, the money really should be there. The Patent Office in fact "generates a lot of money" on its own, according to Bijal Vakil, an intellectual property lawyer with the firm White...
- 12/1/2010
- by David Zax
- Fast Company
If you're one of the huge group of people who answered our open call for questions for U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke about business innovation and entrepreneurship, be sure to watch our interview with him at 1:15 p.m. Est, live at whitehouse.gov/live. (We'll post video of the talk after it airs.) Yours could be one of the questions we ask. The interview is part of the White House's "Open for Questions" initiative where top government officials answer questions from citizens.
Miss the call for submissions? Tweet your question, using #LockeChat, and it could be read, as well.
Update:
Secretary Locke did a great job of answering our questions. Watch the entire video below.
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Miss the call for submissions? Tweet your question, using #LockeChat, and it could be read, as well.
Update:
Secretary Locke did a great job of answering our questions. Watch the entire video below.
[video_twistage 1]...
- 11/19/2010
- by Lindsay Cutler
- Fast Company
Fast Company is honored to moderate the next White House "Open for Questions" program, an event where representatives of government field questions from everyday citizens. We're sending a Fast Company representative to D.C. to meet with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke.
This is where you come in. What would you like to know from Secretary Locke? If you could ask him any question about the future of business and technology, what would it be? In honor of National Entrepreneurship Week, try to keep the discussion in the field of business, innovation, job creation, etc.
Send your questions to ideas@fastcompany.com along with your name and city. We'll select a handful of questions to ask during our interview, which will be live-streamed from the White House via the WhiteHouse.gov website from 1-1:30 p.m. Est this Friday, Nov. 19. Stay tuned to see if your question...
This is where you come in. What would you like to know from Secretary Locke? If you could ask him any question about the future of business and technology, what would it be? In honor of National Entrepreneurship Week, try to keep the discussion in the field of business, innovation, job creation, etc.
Send your questions to ideas@fastcompany.com along with your name and city. We'll select a handful of questions to ask during our interview, which will be live-streamed from the White House via the WhiteHouse.gov website from 1-1:30 p.m. Est this Friday, Nov. 19. Stay tuned to see if your question...
- 11/17/2010
- by Lindsay Cutler
- Fast Company
Photograph by Tony Law
Camera Ready: Yang Lan, being prepped for a taping in a Shanghai studio, still counts as her biggest failure the sale of her Sun TV network in 2003. "It was like my baby," she says, "and I had to give it away." | Photograph by Tony Law
TV host Yang Lan is one of China's biggest celebs. Will the propriety and pragmatism that got her there keep her from becoming the mogul she wants to be? A story of fame, ambition, and reality in modern China.
"We have some work to do." Yang Lan, one of China's most famous women, doesn't so much say the words as turn them into a command. It is the last day of taping for her reality show, New Girl in the Office, and in a sweltering Beijing studio, Yang is coaching an audience of college-age women. Despite the heat, the students sit ramrod straight,...
Camera Ready: Yang Lan, being prepped for a taping in a Shanghai studio, still counts as her biggest failure the sale of her Sun TV network in 2003. "It was like my baby," she says, "and I had to give it away." | Photograph by Tony Law
TV host Yang Lan is one of China's biggest celebs. Will the propriety and pragmatism that got her there keep her from becoming the mogul she wants to be? A story of fame, ambition, and reality in modern China.
"We have some work to do." Yang Lan, one of China's most famous women, doesn't so much say the words as turn them into a command. It is the last day of taping for her reality show, New Girl in the Office, and in a sweltering Beijing studio, Yang is coaching an audience of college-age women. Despite the heat, the students sit ramrod straight,...
- 8/10/2010
- by April Rabkin
- Fast Company
The feds are finally getting serious about piracy.
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced the first-ever strategic plan on intellectual property enforcement, which is intended to both boost and better coordinate efforts to stop piracy at home and abroad, online and through physical sales for American products including movies, TV shows, video games, computer software, pharmaceuticals, counterfeit goods and more.
"To state it very bluntly, piracy hurts," Vice President Joe Biden said at a White House announcement. "It hurts our economy, our health and our safety."
Joining Biden for the announcement of a coordinated program across all federal agencies, worldwide, was a group including attorney general Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, U.S. Trade Rep Ron Kirk and Victoria Espinel, who was appointed in September as the first Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator.
Espinel was required under a law passed in October 2008 to prepare a...
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced the first-ever strategic plan on intellectual property enforcement, which is intended to both boost and better coordinate efforts to stop piracy at home and abroad, online and through physical sales for American products including movies, TV shows, video games, computer software, pharmaceuticals, counterfeit goods and more.
"To state it very bluntly, piracy hurts," Vice President Joe Biden said at a White House announcement. "It hurts our economy, our health and our safety."
Joining Biden for the announcement of a coordinated program across all federal agencies, worldwide, was a group including attorney general Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, U.S. Trade Rep Ron Kirk and Victoria Espinel, who was appointed in September as the first Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator.
Espinel was required under a law passed in October 2008 to prepare a...
- 6/22/2010
- by By Alex Ben Block
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A month after oil started gushing from Bp's ruptured Gulf well, we're officially witnessing a fishery disaster, Bp refuses to use less toxic chemical dispersants, and oil is sinking into Louisiana's shores--with horrifying results.
CNN reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has closed almost 20% of all commercial and recreational fisheries as a result of the spill, and now U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has declared a fisheries disaster in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama--a move that lets the federal government send in extra resources to help with cleanup. No word on how much cash will be offered or when the government plans to provide funds.
In the meantime, oil is still gushing into the Gulf unabated, and Bp continues to try every far-fetched solution it can think of. Next up is the "Top Kill" approach, which involves pumping drilling mud into the leaking pipe and sealing it with cement.
CNN reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has closed almost 20% of all commercial and recreational fisheries as a result of the spill, and now U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has declared a fisheries disaster in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama--a move that lets the federal government send in extra resources to help with cleanup. No word on how much cash will be offered or when the government plans to provide funds.
In the meantime, oil is still gushing into the Gulf unabated, and Bp continues to try every far-fetched solution it can think of. Next up is the "Top Kill" approach, which involves pumping drilling mud into the leaking pipe and sealing it with cement.
- 5/25/2010
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
After meeting in the Situation Room with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Fema Director William Fugate, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Tom Donilon, Rahm Emanuel, and Usaid President Rajiv Shah, President Barack Obama took to the airwaves today to give an official statement on the Chile earthquake and the tsunami expected to hit Hawaii this afternoon.
- 2/27/2010
- by Drew Grant
- Mediaite - TV
At long last, we can access the government's climate change data, info, products, and services all under one roof: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) Climate Services site, a portal that brings together the climate change information scattered across various government agencies.
The service isn't just for policy wonks and climate change nerds. It's also intended to answer questions for educators, business owners, and the general public with help from a number of tools--including an interactive "climate dashboard" that shows constantly updating climate datasets (i.e temperature, CO2 concentration, sea level) over time.
Noaa's prototype site is expected to be fully up and running by the start of 2011. Eventually, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke envisions that data gleaned from the site could lead the way to entirely new industries dedicated to protecting us from the effects of climate change. At the very least, the site will be able...
The service isn't just for policy wonks and climate change nerds. It's also intended to answer questions for educators, business owners, and the general public with help from a number of tools--including an interactive "climate dashboard" that shows constantly updating climate datasets (i.e temperature, CO2 concentration, sea level) over time.
Noaa's prototype site is expected to be fully up and running by the start of 2011. Eventually, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke envisions that data gleaned from the site could lead the way to entirely new industries dedicated to protecting us from the effects of climate change. At the very least, the site will be able...
- 2/9/2010
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
By Ira Teinowitz
Movie and media execs are hopeful the Obama administration will step up the already aggressive anti-piracy efforts of the Bush administration, in the wake of their White House meeting Tuesday with Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and other top administration officials.
“We believe this meeting is an important step forward to stem the tide of content theft,” said Motion Picture Association of America president Dan Glickman, one of the meeting’s attendees, in a statement. “We are confident that the vice president...
Movie and media execs are hopeful the Obama administration will step up the already aggressive anti-piracy efforts of the Bush administration, in the wake of their White House meeting Tuesday with Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and other top administration officials.
“We believe this meeting is an important step forward to stem the tide of content theft,” said Motion Picture Association of America president Dan Glickman, one of the meeting’s attendees, in a statement. “We are confident that the vice president...
- 12/16/2009
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
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