The big groups have seen their newspapers and magazines lose readers and advertising to the internet; their music businesses suffer piracy and falling sales; and someone else's video games captivate new generations of consumers.
He also captures the thrill of being at a startup whose 140-character messages captivate high-profile people.
To captivate new clients and keep the older ones on board, brands will have to invest shopping with a sense of occasion and give ordinary customers some of the individual attention they have lavished on their biggest-spending ones.
Nuclear engineers are scarce in part because there has been little ongoing research to captivate students.The people needed cannot just be borrowed from the fossil-fuel industryAnother smart policy will be to re-examine the extent to which governments subsidise high-tech jobs in other industries, notably defence, tying up talent.
Without a space race to captivate the imagination, and with so many other distractions for the young, could backyard astronomy ever make a return?
If you can pull that information out on to the surface it's very intuitive .Clearly, the science-fiction dream of the flexible display continues to captivate the imagination.
They could help people who have lost their voices speak again, captivate gamers in virtual worlds, direct lost drivers and enable dead celebrities to speak from beyond the grave.Mr Baker spent 11 days in a recording studio, reading nearly 12,000 sentences, to generate all the sounds needed to enable his voice to render any message.
For the collectors of the future, it will not so much be the toys themselves but the stories they tell that captivate.
He has only been in his job for a couple of months; there are natural reasons why he has yet to captivate either the public or the media.
His paintings captivate Ms Morris, though she freely admits that this predilection is mainly confined to people who have been able to see them in Venice.
They captivate youngsters and persuade them to give sport a go.
