Though he was first asked for permission to license the track in February, the deal was only finalized last week, and he just found out about its release the day before it dropped.
Throughout 2013, Beyoncé worked on the project in secrecy, sharing details of the album with a small circle of people and shifting the deadline, which was only finalized a week before its release.
Asked about the deal during the conference call, comScore CEO Serge Matta said that the deal was only finalized overnight.
I bet the $250 price was only finalized in the last month, when someone with sense in their head said that if this handheld is priced over $300, it's going to be strike three for Sony.
One of the problems was that the Saturn hardware was only finalized in mid-1994, and without actual Saturn prototype to test their progress, the programmers initially had to work with hypothetical hardware performance.
Citi eventually reached a $7 billion settlement for fraudulently selling bad mortgage securities, paid $590 for deceiving investors about subprime debt, and paid $285 million for deceiving investors about mortgage bonds -- a figure which was only finalized after a judge rejected the government's deal as inadequate but was overruled.
The divorce took some time to process and was only finalized last year.
V4 of Digg, which was supposed to launch in 2009, is only now being finalized.
Although the accord had been in the works for a while, it was finalized only after the Egyptian-brokered exchange between Israel and Hamas last week.
"We'll see how it goes, but it isn't finalized," Harrick said.
"It is not finalized, and we are still working on it.
