WillCall, a smartphone app that recommends concerts for the hipster crowd, has received a $1.2 million investment from some of the biggest players in the music industry, including Sean Parker, the Spotify board member and former Facebook president, and Coran Capshaw, who manages the Dave Matthews Band and controls a broad empire of concerts and artist management, WillCall announced on Wednesday.
But the events in Britain and the resulting scrutiny have begun to take a toll on the broader empire, according to at least a dozen people familiar with the company, including several former News Corporation executives.
But what this museum does emphasise – in another fine 18th-century domestic setting – is how Barbados and the Thirteen Colonies of America formed part of a broader Atlantic Empire.
His new commercial soccer league is part of a broader Afghan media empire — the holding company is called the Moby Group — that he and his family have built after their return to Kabul from Australia in 2002.
Obama and his emerging cabinet are hardly likely to promote fundamental change in the American Empire's broad global reach.
As a prince-elector, he stood in the highest rank of the Empire, with broad legal, economic, and judicial rights.
For Mr Bolloré, the electric car schemes in Paris and now London – with Los Angeles and Indianapolis to follow – is a sideshow in the broader context of his empire.
And obviously some pundits have argued that America should grant a visa to any would-be immigrant willing to purchase a home in the inland empire.A broader point would be that population growth seems to be an advantage in getting through and out of deep recessions, particularly where liquidity traps are concerned.
In the nearly thirty years since our evacuation from Vietnam, such matters have been the province of specialists, addressed on the campaign trail with a minimum of partisan passion, either in broad abstractions (Reagan's "evil empire," Bush's "new world order," Clinton's "assertive multilateralism") or technocratically (arms control, U.N. resolutions, weapons systems, trade agreements).
(The broad masses went too, as empires, steamships and railways made travel cheaper and easier).
Woven into all these personal stories is a broader account of Britain's empire, with London as its center.
