We actually have two versions of Helios we're working on: Helios Light is the current working prototype, which aims to enhance sight for people suffering from low vision; and Helios Touch is our concept for improving spatial awareness for the blind.
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Acer Predator Helios 300: It's impressive to see as sophisticated a gaming rig as the Acer Predator Helios 300 clock in under $2320.
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Krishnan had deep ties to Helios and Matheson Analytics' former parent company, Helios and Matheson Information Technology (HMIT), which has been accused of massive fraud in India.
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Acer has announced a new gaming powerhouse today with the Helios 23, which is a bigger, more powerful version of the Helios 300 model it released last year.
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Since Helios gained control of MoviePass last year, the company "largely has become synonymous with MoviePass in the public's eye," Helios CEO Ted Farnsworth said in a news release.
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MoviePass and its parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, Inc.
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But not so fast, Helios & Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth says.
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Helios & Matheson's stock currently stands at under a dollar—i.e.
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Acer used a 144Hz IPS screen on the Helios 300.
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Shares of MoviePass parent Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc HMNY.
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The press release says that Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.
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Joe Mallen, chief investment officer of Helios Quantitative Research, agreed.
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TO BECOME A SEPARATE PUBLIC COMPANY * HELIOS AND MATHESON ANALYTICS INC - SPIN-OFF TO BE EFFECTED THROUGH A DIVIDEND DISTRIBUTION OF ZONE TECHNOLOGIES SHARES * HELIOS AND MATHESON ANALYTICS - FOLLOWING SPIN-OFF, ZONE TO BECOME INDEPENDENT PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANY THAT CO EXPECTS TO ALSO BE LISTED ON NASDAQ * HELIOS AND MATHESON - IN PROCESS OF EVALUATING TAX CONSEQUENCES OF PROPOSED DIVIDEND DISTRIBUTION OF ZONE SHARES PURSUANT TO SPIN-OFF * HELIOS AND MATHESON ANALYTICS - BOTH HMNY AND ZONE EXPECT TO REMAIN HEADQUARTERED IN NEW YORK CITY, HMNY'S CURRENT BASE OF OPERATIONS * HELIOS AND MATHESON ANALYTICS INC - PLANS TO CONTINUE FOCUSING ON ITS OPERATIONS RELATED TO ITS CONTROLLING INTEREST IN MOVIEPASS * HELIOS AND MATHESON ANALYTICS - FOLLOWING SPIN-OFF, ZONE PLANS TO CONTINUE FOCUSING ON ITS REDZONE MAP PRODUCT Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Along with the Helios 700, Acer also announced improved specs for the existing Helios 300 model, which will be getting Intel's 9th Gen Core processors, an optional 144Hz display, and RTX 2070 Max-Q GPU.
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Though Farnsworth tried to distance Helios and Matheson in New York (HMNY) from Helios and Matheson in India (HMIT) in statements to Business Insider last year, Krishnan is a point of continuity between the two.
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The previous record was also held by the Helios 2 mission.
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Meanwhile, Helios and Matheson's stock lost practically all of its value.
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It's both, if you're looking at James R. Eads' Hello Helios.
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TC: So what will Helios and Matheson look like moving forward?
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Shares of Helios and Matheson opened roughly 30 percent lower Wednesday.
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Helios and Matheson tanked 54 percent Wednesday and 56 percent Thursday.
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TL;DR: Three ultra-powerful Acer Predator gaming laptops are on sale on Amazon for as much as $2799.99 off — choose from the well-rounded Helios 300, the beefy Helios 700, or the slim Triton 500.
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Stock prices for Helios and Matheson have also dropped below 4 cents.
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Helios & Matheson isn't naive enough to think the situation is tenable, however.
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Update Oct 17th, 8 PM ET: Added statement from Helios and Matheson.
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Compared to pricier gaming laptops, the Helios 300 actually fares pretty well.
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Helios did not disclose the size, date or terms of the offering.
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Acer Predator Helios 300 15.6-inch Gaming Laptop (16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD)
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It is the first acquisition outside Germany by the Fresenius Helios unit.
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In 403, he became the CEO of data company Helios & Matheson Analytics.
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Helios and Matheson has yet to sell MoviePass or its other assets.
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According to Helios and Matheson, MoviePass was too far gone to save.
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Inexplicably, MoviePass held on as Helios and Matheson began looking for buyers.
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Ted Farnsworth, who ran MoviePass's parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.
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The state is looking into whether Helios misled investors about its finances.
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"Helios was touting MoviePass' valuation and path to profitability even though there was no reasonable basis to even imply that the MoviePass business model could lead to profitability for Helios," reads the filing by Jeffrey Braxton, posted by Deadline.
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Last week, Helios and Matheson (HMNY) appointed a new interim CEO, Parthasarathy "Pat" Krishnan, an executive with deep ties to its former parent company, Helios and Matheson Information Technology (HMIT), which has been accused of massive fraud in India.
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Like the Helios 700, no price or release date has yet been announced.
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TF: Helios and Matheson will still be obviously the largest shareholder of MoviePass.
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On Tuesday, Helios and Matheson stock plummeted after a risky shareholder move failed.
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The Helios, which holds a 15-inch laptop, comes in black and brown.
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Krishnan's involvement in Helios and Matheson predates the Farnsworth era by a decade.
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Helios and Matheson also took out sizable loans to cover its ballooning losses.
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In a rare bright spot, African mobile networks operator Helios Towers Plc HTWS.
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Helios and Matheson (HMNY), MoviePass' parent company, also filed for bankruptcy this week.
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Helios and Matheson began posting gigantic quarterly losses, and shareholders began demanding change.
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Nasdaq has even warned Helios and Matheson that it could delist the stock.
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The same month, Economist Carl Schramm resigned from Helios and Matheson's board of directors.
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MoviePass sold a majority stake in the company to Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.
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The Acer Predator Helios 300 is a performance powerhouse packed into a small body.
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To put the plunge in perspective, shares of Helios closed at $2,520 on Dec.
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Shares of Helios and Matheson were down 8.5 percent at the time of writing.
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The bad news sent the share price of parent company Helios and Matheson tanking.
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Both records had been held since 1976 by the German-American Helios 2 spacecraft.
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A regulatory filing from parent company Helios & Matheson offers more insight about what happened.
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Honestly, I didn't expect the Helios 300 to do well with battery life anyway.
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This week, MoviePass' parent company Helios & Matheson secured an additional $63 million in funding.
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To Tuesday's close of $10.08, Helios had more than tripled in value this year.
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Perses, Helios, Hercules, Hermes, Cronos, Hephaestus, and Hera all fall in battle against Kratos.
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The service is today majority owned by data firm Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.
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"To do a deal with Helios and MoviePass is epic for us," he said.
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Moshi's Helios backpack series are minimal and trendy, keeping your digital lifestyle in mind.
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The Helios Lite, which holds a 13-inch laptop, comes in blue and gray.
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Verizon's Oath sold Moviefone to Helios and Matheson for $1 million in April 2018.
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Helios and Matheson said in October that it was "fully cooperating" with that investigation.
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Helios and Matheson bought the service in 2018 for $23 million from Verizon (VZ).
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Mr. Dausgaard opened the concert with a dark, mysterious account of Nielsen's "Helios" Overture.
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"Helios was touting MoviePass' valuation and path to profitability even though there was no reasonable basis to even imply that the MoviePass business model could lead to profitability for Helios," shareholder Jeffrey Braxton said in June, when he filed the claim against MoviePass.
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Farnsworth, the mastermind of the $10-a-month plan, stepped down as the CEO of Helios and Matheson soon after MoviePass shut down and submitted an offer to purchase MoviePass and other assets owned by Helios and Matheson, including MoviePass Films and Moviefone.
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MoviePass' parent company Helios and Matheson is under legal probe due to a shareholder lawsuit.
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Telkom Kenya, which is controlled by Africa-focused, London-based Helios Investment declined to comment.
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Now CEO of MoviePass parent company Helios & Matheson, Ted Farnsworth, insists it's fine—everything's fine.
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But shares of MoviePass's parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics have fallen dramatically since October.
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At that point, the firm's attorneys contracted an outside firm, Helios, to handle the claim.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics, which already owns movie ticket subscription service MoviePass, has acquired Moviefone.
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It buys 6% of all film tickets in America, according to Helios & Matheson's SEC filing.
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There's a lot I can say about the Helios 215's gaming and productivity performance.
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I used a tool called Helios LanTest to read and write files to the drive.
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Its Helios unit, which runs private hospitals in Germany and Spain, also reported good growth.
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To cover MoviePass' losses, Helios and Matheson flooded the market with millions of new shares.
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And the last one I purchased was a song a song called "Helios" by Darius.
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Last summer, I spoke with Helios and Matheson investors who felt betrayed, both by management and by the Wall Street analysts who kept "buy" ratings on the stock for months while it plunged, as their firms made millions helping Helios and Matheson sell new shares.
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It's important to note that the press release comes from MoviePass parent company Helios + Matheson Analytics.
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Ailing movie subscription service MoviePass will be spun off from its parent company, Helios and Matheson.
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Elio: This Italian and Spanish name is derived from the Greek god of the sun, Helios.
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Ted Farnsworth, CEO of MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics, has taken a financial beating.
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After the spinoff announcement, shares of Helios spiked, but were still trading at pennies per share.
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I was on the train, returning home after a Helios hardware hacking session with my team.
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Helios and Matheson also recently acquired Moviefone, giving TechCrunch's parent company Verizon a stake in MoviePass.
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To this point, the Acer Helios 300 delivers a little bit of everything and then some.
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Helios will own 51 percent of the new company, while EFO Films will own 49 percent.
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Regularly $1,299, you can save $300 and get the Acer Predator Helios 300 for just $999.
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Visa will join Helios Investment Partners, TA Associates, and IFC as the primary shareholders in Interswitch.
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Correction: This story was revised to correct when Helios and Matheson took out an emergency loan.
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They claim MoviePass's parent company Helios and Matheson seemed interested in discussions last week but ultimately demurred.
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Outside, the Helios 300's keyboard and trackpad are sick enough to distract you from slight clunkiness.
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If you were on top – if you were Zeus, Athena, Helios — life was pretty great for you.
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It looks like a larger version of the company's Predator Helios 2700 model, with an updated design.
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New German healthcare rules have also required Fresenius' Helios division, Europe's largest hospitals operator, to increase staffing.
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In its recent third-quarter earnings report, Helios and Matheson cited a "significant decline" in MoviePass subscribers.
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That Helios 373 spacecraft was also once the fastest-ever, human-made object relative to the Sun.
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That Helios 2 spacecraft was also once the fastest-ever, human-made object relative to the Sun.
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The previous record was set in 1976 by the German-American Helios 2 spacecraft in April 1976.
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In February, Helios and Matheson was delisted from the Nasdaq composite after trading below $1 for months.
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Krishnan and Helios and Matheson Analytics did not respond to multiple requests for comment from Business Insider.
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This hotel has the particular distinction of being set inside Helios, the landmark midcentury BBC television headquarters.
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Helios and Matheson's stock, which was once worth $5,19.953 (adjusted for stock splits) is now at zero.
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Shortly after the service's "final" demise was announced, news surfaced that Farnsworth, who had been CEO of MoviePass's parent company Helios & Matheson, had resigned both his CEO job and his spot on the board and then made an offer to buy both Helios & Matheson and the MoviePass service.
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Shares of Helios and Matheson surged 14 percent Tuesday afternoon, though the stock trades for pennies per share.
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Ellis is reportedly a close friend of Ted Farnsworth, CEO of Helios and Matheson Analytics, MoviePass' parent company.
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Parent company Helios and Matheson missed a payment to one of the companies helping finance its outrageous model.
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The difference between Netflix and MoviePass was that Helios and Matheson couldn't convert on its attention-grabbing strategy.
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Helios, the outside firm leading the inquiry, was holding interviews with a select group of staff and management.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics has owned MoviePass since last August, six years after the company's founding in 2011.
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MoviePass surged in popularity in 2017 after Helios and Matheson bought the service and drastically lowered the price.
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In October 2018, the New York Attorney General's office announced an investigation into whether Helios & Matheson misled investors.
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As MoviePass struggled, Helios and Matheson's stock crash, and the company was delisted from the Nasdaq in February.
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The price action in Helios and Matheson follows a sharp post-market decline following a late Tuesday filing.
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Helios Towers owns about 6,600 telecoms towers in Ghana, Tanzania, Congo Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Perhaps the hotel's crowning perk is its 24,000-square-foot gym, in the basement of the Helios building.
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The state is looking into whether Helios and Matheson (HMNY) misled investors about its finances, the source said.
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Shares of Helios and Matheson closed down more than 35 percent at 3 cents a share on Thursday.
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Helios and Matheson's stock took a major hit as a result, dipping to as low as 2 cents.
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The Helios 2300 is being billed as the new flagship of the Helios line for Acer, with a 1443-inch 2144p display, an 22070th Gen Intel Core i2700 processor, and ether Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 or RTX 2070 GPUs (which is specifically said to not be a Max-Q design).
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Our favorite laptop for traditional/hardcore gamers, this 17.3-inch Predator Helios 700 is essentially an upgraded version of the Helios 300 featuring a first-of-its kind RGB-lit HyperDrift keyboard that slides in and out to increase airflow, enhance performance, and — most importantly — give your palms a rest.
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The old record was held by the German-American Helios 2000 spacecraft, which achieved the feat in April 20.064.
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Remember, this grand plan is being funded, in part, by selling a majority stake to Helios and Metheson Analytics.
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Helios & Matheson said that without additional funding, it "will not have sufficient funds to meet its obligations" by Aug.
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On IPO prospects, Helios Investment Partners' Fope Adelowo has been on the forefront of VC into Africa's breakout startups.
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That number comes from the data analytics firm Helios and Matheson, which recently purchased a majority stake in MoviePass.
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From a business standpoint, this lack of use is obviously what MoviePass — and Helios and Matheson — need to survive.
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Helios & Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth was a bit more open — if not particularly specific — about what all this means.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY) will spin off MoviePass and all movie-related activities into a separate public company.
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While the Predator Helios 300 is most known for its gaming excellence, it a pretty well-rounded laptop overall.
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Helios & Matheson borrowed $5 million in cash to get it running again, according to a filing with the SEC.
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Planes like the GL-10, Helios, E-Fan, and Solar Impulse have already demonstrated the feasibility of electric planes.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics noted that any transaction would include the "assumption or settlement" of any of its liabilities.
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The stock price for Helios and Matheson, MoviePass's parent company, has plummeted and was recently delisted from the Nasdaq.
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Helios and Matheson stock was trading at an all-time high of nearly $39 a share in October 2017.
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Though MoviePass has been around for several years, in August it was acquired by Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.
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Interswitch investors Helios Partners and Adlevo Capital also back ventures such as ecommerce platform MallforAfrica and Nigerian payments firm Paga.
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Helios and Matheson is the largest shareholder of MoviePass, which is an increasingly popular service for going to watch movies.
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What we wanted to do with Helios is use next-gen technologies to radically improve accessibility for visually impaired people.
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Finally, I told him about Helios and he said he would love to try it and help out if possible.
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Helios and Matheson stock plummeted after the service outage to $3.58 per stock, or nearly half of its previous standing.
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Helios secured a $5 million loan from creditors Hudson Bay Capital Management in order to turn the lights back on.
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It spent more than $150 million on its new logo, adopting a sunflower, named "Helios" after the Greek sun god.
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The Helios 700 is an absolutely huge gaming PC, measuring in at 1.64 inches thick (41.7mm) and weighing 9.9 pounds.
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The subscription-price reduction came after MoviePass sold a majority stake to the data firm Helios and Matheson Analytics, Inc.
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Helios and Matheson has faced multiple class-action lawsuits, and a securities fraud probe by the New York attorney general.
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Haglofs Helios VX Backpack for $150 ($673 off): This versatile pack is water-resistant and made from light, durable ripstop.
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The company had selected investment bankers, had support of primary backer (Helios Investment Partners), and things seemed ready to go.
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Acer Predator Helios 500 AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Gaming 17.3-inch Laptop with RX Vega 56, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD
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It is the first acquisition outside Germany by the Fresenius Helios unit, not the first by the parent company, Fresenius.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics is looking to sell MoviePass and Moviefone, multiple sources close to the company told Business Insider.
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On April 17, 2018, days after the Coachella event, Helios & Matheson filed its annual 10-K report to the SEC.
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During Farnsworth's time as CEO of Helios and Matheson, he spent hundreds of millions to try to keep MoviePass afloat.
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Helios and Matheson said it would explore a sale of MoviePass, along with its other assets Moviefone and MoviePass Films.
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Over the next few days, MoviePass's parent company, the data analytics firm Helios & Matheson, announced further changes to the program.
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Telkom, which is 60 percent-owned by London-based Helios Investment Partners, is Kenya's third biggest telecommunications company by users.
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The preservation order also covers the central courtyard and fountain, which features a statue of the Greek sun god Helios.
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MoviePass also catches the eye of Helios and Matheson, which buys a controlling stake in the company for $27 million.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics, the theater subscription service's parent company, has at last filed for bankruptcy, according to The Wrap.
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And the New York attorney general's office started an investigation into whether Helios + Matheson had misled investors regarding its financials.
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He added that Helios shareholders and the "market perception" might benefit by spinning off all the company's movie-related assets.
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The New York attorney general is investigating Helios, a source familiar with the probe confirmed to CNN Business last week.
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"This is bigger (news) than last 20 budgets," said Samir Arora, fund manager at Helios Capital said in a tweet.
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This one is Helios, a 193-foot luxury yacht that belongs to billionaire Lorenzo Fertitta, former owner of the UFC.
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The Lagos based fintech firm, majority owned by private equity group Helios Investment Partners, provides much of Nigeria's digital finance infrastructure.
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" Joe Mallen, chief investment officer at Helios Quantitative Research, also advises patience: "Investors close to retirement should stick to their plans.
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New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood is investigating whether MoviePass's parent company, Helios and Matheson, misled investors regarding the company's finances.
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In a statement, a spokesperson for Helios and Matheson said the company is aware of the probe and is fully cooperating.
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For comparison, the smaller Helios 300 is already a pretty chunky PC, measuring in at 22.9mm (for the 15-inch model).
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The CEO of MoviePass owner Helios and Matheson Analytics placed the company's woes almost entirely at the feet of such activity.
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Grupo BTG Pactual SA holds a 40 percent stake in the venture and Helios Investment Partners owns the remaining 10 percent.
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The service's parent company, Helios and Matheson, filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealing it borrowed $5 million.
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Worth $3,000 per share last December, MoviePass parent company Helios Matheson Analytics is now trading for around 2 cents a share.
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The New York attorney general's office is launching an investigation into MoviePass' parent company, Helios and Matheson, over allegedly misleading investors.
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Helios and Matheson reported a loss of $150.8 million for the last financial year, compared to just $7.4 million in 2016.
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It sold a 60 percent stake in its downstream business last year to Vitol and Helios Investment Partners for $210 million.
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But even with those compromises, the Helios 300 is a precursor of a trend in cheaper but still-capable gaming laptops.
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The Helios 300 excels at gaming performance for hundreds less than the laptops MSi, Asus, or Razer have on the market.
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Spikes said he hasn't spoken with Helios and Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth or MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe since he was fired.
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Helios is a highly shorted stock, with about 42 percent of its total float held by short sellers as of Nov.
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The current record of 85033,454 miles per hour relative to the sun was also set by Helios 2 in April 1976.
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The subscription service's parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics announced today that MoviePass' monthly losses soared to $40 million in May.
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In 2005, a Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Greece crashed into hills outside Athens, killing all 121 people on board.
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Farnsworth came on as the CEO of Helios and Matheson in 2017 and took a controlling stake in MoviePass that July.
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Backed by Helios Investment Partners, MFA was founded in 2011 to solve challenges global consumer goods companies face when entering Africa.
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This beats out the next-best distance—27 million miles set by NASA's Helios 2 probe in 1976—seven times over.
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It was most recently owned by Helios and Matheson (HMNY), the troubled owner of MoviePass, which filed for bankruptcy in January.
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In 2017, Mr. Lowe and Theodore Farnsworth, chief executive of Helios and Matheson, took over MoviePass and drastically cut subscription prices.
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On Tuesday, Helios reported that MoviePass lost $98.3 million in the first quarter, despite adding more than a million net subscribers.
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That brought financier and founder Ted Farnsworth into the fold, and Farnsworth became Helios and Matheson's chairman and CEO shortly thereafter.
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Helios was formed in December 2009 and owns around 6,600 towers in Ghana, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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"The Company is unable to predict if or when the MoviePass service will continue," Helios and Matheson said in the statement.
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MoviePass ended all subscriber services on Saturday, after its parent company Helios and Matheson announced details of its financial troubles Friday.
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The Helios-A probe journeyed 46.5 million kilometers from the Sun, setting a record for the closest perihelion at that time.
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Shares of Helios and Matheson fell 3 percent in extended trading Wednesday, though the stock trades for just 2 cents per share.
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"In the deal terms, MoviePass got an increase in valuation from Helios if, within 15 months, we exceeded 150,000 subscribers," Lowe said.
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For $899 (usually $1,299.99), its Predator Helios 300 gaming laptop offers a good value and a lot of power for the price.
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MoviePass parent Helios & Matheson lost nearly half of its remaining value today as investors continued to flee the cash-burning movie service.
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In another new paper, Luigi Guiso, Helios Herrera, Massimo Morelli and Tommaso Sonno provide a clever framework for answering that critical question.
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DPI and competitors like ECP, Helios, Actis, and Ethos tend to focus on smaller deals, often between $70 million and $100 million.
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As of April 30th, Helios & Matheson has $83 million in cash, with $27.9 million "on deposit" with the company's various merchant processors.
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I'm much happier typing on my desktop mechanical keyboard, or even the oddly configured Razer Blade 15, than the Helios' mushy keyboard.
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Later that same month, Helios and Matheson ran out of cash during opening weekend for Mission: Impossible—Fallout, prompting a systemwide outage.
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It was privatised in 2007 when French telecoms operator Orange bought a majority stake, which was subsequently sold to Helios in 2015.
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Previously, the record was held by the German-American Helios 22024, which made the now second-closest solar approach in April 278.
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Previously, the record was held by the German-American Helios 123, which made the now second-closest solar approach in April 1976.
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The company is the downstream fuels joint venture of energy trading house Vitol and Helios Investment Partners which are cutting their stakes.
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However, African mobile networks operator Helios Towers listed in London last month at a market capitalisation of 1.15 billion pounds ($1.47 billion).
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MoviePass, the embattled movie-ticket-subscription service, is shutting down on Saturday, its parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, announced on Friday.
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They often made key decisions inside Helios & Matheson's Empire State Building office without Spikes, who by then had become chief operating officer.
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MoviePass' parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, flooded the public markets with millions of new shares to cover the service's massive losses.
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Its parent company, Helios & Matheson, took the app offline in July for some vaguely defined "updates," and it has been inaccessible since.
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MoviePass is raising its rates, and investors briefly shot shares of its parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, up 150 percent Tuesday.
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The news was announced today via emails to subscribers and separately in a press release issued by parent company Helios and Matheson.
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But that segment had been "stressing the system," said Ted Farnsworth, chairman and CEO of MoviePass' parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics.
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Helios and Matheson's efforts to recapitalize MoviePass have "not been successful to date," the company said in a press release on Friday.
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That includes MoviePass, as well as a film division, a venture unit and Moviefone, which Helios bought from Verizon earlier this year.
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Krishnan had been involved in Helios and Matheson since 2005, when HMIT bought a California-based firm he cofounded, Maruthi Consulting Inc.
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The company is also planning to distribute some outstanding shares of MoviePass Entertainment common stock as a dividend to Helios and Matheson shareholders.
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"We are aware of the New York Attorney General's inquiry and are fully cooperating," Helios and Matheson said in a statement to CNBC.
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While such a move might benefit Helios on Wall Street, it's still unclear whether the company will be able to execute the spinoff.
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We have a team member named Mihai -- he's featured in our videos demoing Helios -- who was born with microphthalmia and cataract-microcornea syndrome.
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Still, the site gets "over 6 million monthly unique visitors," according to a statement sent to Gizmodo from MoviePass's parent company, Helios & Matheson.
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The video is actually an experimental short film called "Project Helios" that was directed by Giso Spijkerman and posted to Vimeo last year.
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In Q2, Helios and Matheson posted losses of $126.6 million compared to a net loss of roughly $150 million in all of 2017.
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"We believe our public disclosures have been complete, timely and truthful and we have not misled investors," Helios and Matheson said in statement.
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Essentially, the company is subsidizing the cost of its subscription with the capital it raised from data firm Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.
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The price slash is possible because MoviePass just sold a majority stake to the data firm Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc, Variety reports.
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He joined Cellulant CEO Ken Njoroge and Helios Investment Partners' Fope Adelowo at Disrupt San Francisco to discuss fintech and Africa's tech ecosystem.
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The Helios 700 can also be configured with up to 64GB of RAM and up to a 1TB SSD or 2TB hard drive.
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MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson has announced a preliminary plan to spin off the struggling movie subscription service into its own company.
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Characters named BPRosencrantz and BPGuildenstern in large ruffs shaped like BP's sun-like Helios logo were then marched symbolically out of the building.
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Like Acer's other gaming laptops, the Helios 500 uses the company's "Dual AeroBlade 3D fans" for what it claims to be improved cooling.
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This is seven times closer than the previous closest spacecraft, Helios 2, which came within 27 million miles of the Sun in 1976.
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This is seven times closer than the previous closest spacecraft, Helios 2, which came within 27 million miles of the sun in 1976.
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This is seven times closer than the previous closest spacecraft, Helios 2, which came within 2023 million miles of the Sun in 1976.
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"The $10 was thought of as a promotional thing, in a way celebrating [Helios and Matheson] buying us," Spikes said in the interview.
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This is seven times closer than the previous closest spacecraft, Helios 20113, which came within 27 million miles of the Sun in 1976.
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Acer Predator Helios 500 AMD Ryzen 7 2700 17.3-inch Gaming Laptop with AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, 16GB RAM, 256GB PCIe SSD
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The share price crashed and Helios and Matheson was kicked off the Nasdaq in February after trading under $1 per share for months.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics, the parent company of defunct movie-ticket-subscription service MoviePass, has named a new interim CEO: Parthasarathy "Pat" Krishnan.
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Sources confirmed to TechCrunch the Helios backed company is likely to launch on the LSE north of $1 billion in Q3 or Q4.
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On Wednesday, shares of AMC rose about 1.5 percent Wednesday while shares of MoviePass-owner Helios and Matheson fell more than 20 percent.
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Shares of MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics dropped 10% Friday afternoon, though the stock trades for a fraction of a penny.
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"We did not foresee a phenomenon of this magnitude coming," Ted Farnsworth, the chief executive of Helios and Matheson, said in a statement.
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MoviePass&apos parent company, Helios and Matheson, which also filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Wednesday, listed the same investigations in its filing.
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MoviePass&apos owner, Helios and Matheson Analytics, filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Wednesday, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Largely because of MoviePass, Helios + Matheson's net loss exploded to $150.8 million in 2017 from $7.4 million in 2016, according to security filings.
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A monumental bronze statue, the Colossus of Rhodes, which portrayed Helios, the sun god, provided Auguste Bartholdi with the inspiration for the Statue.
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But the element and solar eclipses will forever share a bond: Its name comes from the Greek "Helios," the Titan God of the Sun.
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In other words, their taking Helios' data and tech, cross-referencing it with their own, and cooking up ways to sell you more shit.
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New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has opened a probe into MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson, the official confirmed Thursday in a tweet.
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Helios acquired MoviePass in December 2017 but announced in October that it plans to spin MoviePass off into its own entity, MoviePass Entertainment Holdings.
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"We are aware of the New York Attorney General's inquiry and are fully cooperating," Helios and Matheson said in a statement provided to TechCrunch.
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HELIOS is a close-in defense system that is designed to protect against a variety of threats, such as small boats, drones, and missiles.
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Shortly after Helios and Matheson's acquisition, MoviePass lowered its prices to $9.95 per month, with the service allowing customers one movie ticket per day.
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In May, the news that Helios and Matheson only had $15.5 million in the bank caused MoviePass' stock to plummet more than 90 percent.
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The Helios Towers Group was formed in December 2009 and owns around 6,600 towers in Ghana, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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MoviePass' parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics sold additional stock last week in what seemed like a move to raise money for the service.
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Helios and Matheson's greatest mistake, analysts and fund managers say, was trying to bring the company into the public markets before it was ready.
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Helios and Matheson, meanwhile, may end up selling MoviePass or being acquired, said Nehal Chokshi, an analyst at New York-based Maxim Group LLC.
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In previous interviews with The New York Times, Helios and MoviePass executives said they had access to financing that could keep the company afloat.
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MoviePass (2011 – 2019) Total raised: $68.7 million, acquired by Helios and Matheson in 2017 Image: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch Image: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch Holy hell.
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The record was previously held by the Helios 2 in 1976, which reached a heliocentric (or sun-relative) speed of 153,454 miles per hour.
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Acer's Predator Helios 2512 gaming laptop is mostly the same in terms of specs to the model above, differing slightly with some design tweaks.
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"We are aware of the New York Attorney General's inquiry and are fully cooperating," a spokesperson for Helios and Matheson told Gizmodo in a statement.
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Its parent company Helios & Matheson is being sued by shareholders for alleged fraud, as well as investigated by New York authorities for the same reason.
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And for those with total blindness, Helios features like reading assistance, facial recognition, and a haptic interface provide a much enhanced sense of their surroundings.
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Though we're developing several other core projects, our greatest focus is on Helios, because we think it has the capacity to make the greatest impact.
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Its CEO Mitch Lowe told Gizmodo that its business plan with investor Helios & Matheson called for the company to reach 150,000 subscribers in six months.
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TL;DR: The specs-packed Acer Predator Helios 300 gaming laptop (16GB DDR4, 21GB SSD) is on sale for $2299.99 at Amazon, saving you $2300.
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The Helios inquiry, according to an employment law attorney who handles HR matters at the firm, did not substantiate the gender discrimination claim against Goodstein.
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Silky Ono Professional Hatchet Haglofs Helios VX Backpack for $150 ($60 off): This versatile pack is water-resistant and made from light, durable ripstop fabric.
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MallforAfrica has backing from UK private equity firm Helios Investment Partners and partnerships with companies such as clothier Hawes and Curtis and department store Macy's.
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It changed its subscription plans repeatedly, while a service outage found its parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, asking creditors for a $25 million loan.
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In anticipation of the new supercomputer, Japan has decommissioned its previous, older system, called Helios, that had been ranked 15th most powerful supercomputer in 2012.
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However, most high-end gaming laptops rarely reach more than six hours away from an outlet, so the Helios isn't too far off from them.
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Helios shares will begin conditional trading on London Stock Exchange at 08.00 GMT on Tuesday after selling a total of 250 million pounds of shares.
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Akinola joined KKR in 2013 amid growing hopes for the region to lead and develop the firm's African efforts from Africa-focused Helios Investment Partners.
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Poll: Trade union Verdi said it was calling on staff at Fresenius's hospitals division Helios to take strike action to underpin demands for higher wages.
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The previous closest pass to the Sun was by a probe called Helios 2, which in 1976 came within 27 million miles (43 million km).
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Variety was first to report the news, in an interview with Helios and Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth; MoviePass has also put out a press release.
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MoviePass, along with Moviefone and MoviePass Films, which are all owned by Helios and Matheson, will be up for sale, the company said on Friday.
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Fresenius said the companies would continue to operate under the Helios brand in Germany and the Quirónsalud brand in Spain after the transaction is completed.
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Shares of MoviePass owner Helios and Matheson Analytics plunged more than 403 percent in high volume trading Wednesday, after falling 240 percent a day earlier.
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We continue the story as the company, starving for money, is taken over by Florida businessman Ted Farnsworth and his firm, Helios and Matheson Analytics.
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In a press release published on Friday and first noticed by CNBC, Helios and Matheson Analytics — MoviePass' parent company — announced the shutdown of the service.
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DE) in a 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) deal, a move that would help it compete with larger rival Helios, a unit of Fresenius (FREG.DE).
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DE) in a 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) deal, a move that would help it compete with larger rival Helios, a unit of Fresenius (FREG.DE).
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Helios Towers set its IPO size at 250 million pounds ($317 million) and gave the company a market capitalisation of 1.15 billion pounds ($1.45 billion).
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Vitol already has a major presence in Nigeria after buying petrol stations via a joint venture with local producer Oando and private equity fund Helios.
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Helios and Matheson (HMNY) announced Tuesday that its board of directors has preliminarily approved a plan to create a new subsidiary called MoviePass Entertainment Holdings.
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Helios recently raised $212 million for the expansion of MoviePass, which expects to have more than three million subscribers by the end of next year.
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In a recent interview with Business Insider about MoviePass' general financial situation, HMNY's CEO, Ted Farnsworth, downplayed the connection between the two Helios and Mathesons.
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On an even more ambitious level, the company plans to use the data it collects in coordination with the systems of data firm Helios and Matheson.
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Helios and Matheson's CEO, Ted Farnsworth, has been doing a lot of interviews in the last few days to assure everyone that things are fine... FINE!
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The venture has backing from UK private equity firm Helios Investment Partners and alliances with companies such as clothier Hawes and Curtis and department store Macy's.
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Compared to the 15.6-inch Acer Helios 300 laptop, which has the same processor and GPU, the Overpowered computer runs about 10 to 20 percent slower.
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"We are aware of the New York Attorney General's inquiry and are fully cooperating," a Helios and Matheson representative said in a statement to The Verge.
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Helios and Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth told BI that MoviePass needs to raise more money to remain in business, which MoviePass has already relayed to investors.
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The layout is fine for a 15.6-inch chassis, but typing out long documents and emails is my least favorite thing about using the Helios 300.
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Helios and Matheson has also looked into spinning MoviePass off as a separate entity; whether that will happen, and what impact it might have, remain uncertain.
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Alberto Helios Gagliardo's "La pietá umana [Human Pity]" (1946) has one worker holding the corpse of another, inspired by an accident at the Port of Genoa.
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Safaricom's rivals, India's Bharti Airtel and Telkom Kenya, owned by London-based investment group Helios, have long demanded that the regulator act to curb Safaricom's dominance.
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The service's $10 price point exploded in popularity late last year, and MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson (HMNY) has been burning through cash ever since.
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Helios & Matheson made just about every mistake a tech startup can make in a very short period of time, but ultimately MoviePass's model wasn't the problem.
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Farnsworth was the CEO of Helios & Matheson Analytics, the parent company of MoviePass, the buzzy movie-ticket-subscription service with ambitions of becoming the next Netflix.
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It sold its 24.06 percent stake in Helios Towers Tanzania Ltd to that company's parent company, HTA Holdings, it said in a statement seen by Reuters.
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Today the company announced a $14 million Series B financing round led by Helios Capital and Mangrove Capital Partners with participation from OurCrowd and Cerca Partners.
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On Monday, Helios and Matheson said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it hoped to raise $1.2 billion over three years to fund growth.
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Its valuation, too, has collapsed, as majority shareholder Helios and Matheson Analytics went from being worth hundreds of millions to less than half a million dollars.
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Last October, then-New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood opened a probe into Helios and Matheson's business dealings, alleging the company misled investors regarding its financials.
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Helios and Matheson posted a gross loss of $104.6 million, a drastic swing from the year-ago period when it reported a gross profit of $223,000.
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Total operating expenses for Helios and Matheson increased by 1,000 percent year over year during the second quarter, pushing total losses from operations past $126 million.
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It dwarfs the two other operators in the mobile market: the local subsidiary of India's Bharti Airtel and Telkom Kenya, owned by London-based Helios Partners.
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The other two are Helios Petroleum Services, a Panamanian company that describes itself as petroleum marketer, and Shandong Kerui Holding Group, a Chinese oilfield equipment manufacturer.
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On Monday, MoviePass's parent company, Helios & Matheson, revealed that it has agreed to acquire Emmett Furla Oasis Films (EFO) with an unspecified amount of cash and stock.
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A Helios & Matheson spokesperson confirmed to Gizmodo the amount of $65 million, but would not comment on where the money came from, or provide any additional information.
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The venture has backing from U.K. private equity firm Helios Investment Partners and alliances with companies such as consumer electronics chain Best Buy and department store Macy's.
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Helios initiated a formal internal investigation that included interviews with a number of then-current employees — including a two-hour interview with the female employee on Jan.
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And in April, an independent auditor for MoviePass parent company Helios & Matheson Analytics raised alarm bells by expressing "substantial doubt" that the company could stay in business.
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She depicts Circe as the nymph-child of the sun god Helios; then as she meets and falls in love with Odysseus; and after he abandons her.
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Image: Greg Baker/Getty ImagesThe neo-futurist Helios House, Los Angeles, designed by Office dA in Boston and Johnston Marklee Architects in Los Angeles, built in 2007.
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Helios & Matheson reported it had lost $242m in the nine months to June 30th and that its monthly losses would increase as the service becomes more popular.
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While it seems like the Helios 300 is a too-good-to-be-true laptop, it does come with some caveats, namely in design and keyboard quality.
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O said on Tuesday it would sell shares to raise funds to increase its stake in online ticketing service MoviePass, sending Helios' shares plunging 22 percent aftermarket.
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In this context, we view the addition of Quironsalud as positive for the group's business risk profile, adding further scale and diversification to its Fresenius Helios unit.
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It hived off its power and gas subsidiaries in 20143, selling a 75 percent stake in the new business, Axxela, to Helios for $115.8 million in 2016.
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It's gone by different names over the millennia, of course: the Egyptians called it Ra, the Greeks called it Helios, and the Aztecs knew it as Tonatiuh.
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On Tuesday, the company announced that Farnsworth had submitted an offer to purchase MoviePass and other assets owned by Helios and Matheson, including MoviePass Film and Moviefone.
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Meanwhile, the stock price of parent company Helios and Matheson (HMNY) has plunged more than 99%, putting the company in danger of being delisted from the Nasdaq.
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Purported stockholders also filed two federal class-action complaints against Helios and Matheson in August, claiming the company made "materially false or misleading" statements to the market.
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This is likely due to its orbit, which brings it very close to the sun (in Greek mythology, Phaethon is the son of Helios, the sun god).
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France's Orange bought a majority stake in Telkom Kenya when it was privatized in 2007 but then sold its stake to London-based Helios Investment in 2015.
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With possible exits for backers Helios Investment Partners, TA Investments and IFC, Interswitch's unicorn status and pending IPO could create more momentum for startup investment in Africa.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics provides IT services to big companies, but it's not clear what that means, or why it bills itself as a data analytics provider.
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Purported stockholders have filed two federal class-action complaints against Helios and Matheson in August, claiming the company made "materially false or misleading" statements to the market.
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Helios is owned by telecom firms Millicom and Bharti Airtel and hedge funds including Albright Capital Management and Soros Fund Management, which owns more than 20 percent.
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France's Orange bought a majority share in Telkom Kenya when it was privatised in 2007 but then sold its stake to London-based Helios Investment in 2015.
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MoviePass was six years old, with a modest customer base and several reasonably priced plans, when it was acquired in 2017 by data analytics firm Helios & Matheson.
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Helios helped Russia secure the 2014 Winter Olympics and the coming 2018 World Cup, before its acquisition in 2012 by the Amaury Group, a French media company.
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Helios and Matheson Information Technology, a defunct Indian tech company, stands accused in its home country of defrauding at least 5,000 creditors, including banks and senior citizens.
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Allegations of massive fraud Helios and Matheson started in 1991 as an information-technology training firm in Chennai, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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This is likely due to its orbit that brings it very close to the sun (in Greek mythology, Phaethon is the son of Helios, the sun god).
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Helios and Matheson posted huge quarterly losses in August and was looking at a shareholder lawsuit that accused CEO Ted Farnsworth and CFO Stuart Benson of defrauding shareholders.
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Looking to raise additional capital, Helios and Matheson said it would sell up to $150 million in a stock sale that essentially seems geared to fund MoviePass's expansion.
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Petrobras holds half the shares in the company while 40 percent are held by a subsidiary of Grupo BTG Pactual SA and 10 percent by Helios Investment Partners.
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Business Insider continued:Last week, MoviePass' parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, did a reverse stock split that boosted shares to about $14 on Wednesday from $0.09 on Tuesday.
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At the direction of New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson is now the subject of a fraud probe in New York state.
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The service, which now sports 225 million subscribers and is majority-owned by Helios & Matheson (HMNY), basically subsidizes the cost of the movie ticket thanks to HMNY's investment.
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The Helios inquiry, described by the company as a neutral "independent third-party" review, concluded in March after investigators reviewed pay records and hundreds of pages of documents.
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Even if you believe the market demand for Helios' stock (I, for one, find them incredulous), there is an enormous challenge of converting that money into equity now.
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Last week, news broke that Helios and Matheson was under investigation by the New York attorney general's office over fraud concerns, which allege that the company misled investors.
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When the issues became too big to ignore, the stock price of Helios and Matheson reacted, with the stock price plummeting to as low as a single cent.
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"Technology is now letting you get atomised, bite-sized bits of infrastructure," says Tope Lawani, a co-founder of Helios, a private-equity firm with investments across Africa.
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The big question in the media world today is whether MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson can stanch the bleeding of its cash flows before it becomes insolvent.
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Other shareholders include Farnsworth himself, and Verizon's Oath (which also owns TC), as result of Oath's recent sale of its Moviefone business to Helios and Matheson in April.
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Petrobras holds half the shares in the company while 40 percent are held by a subsidiary of Grupo BTG Pactual SA and 67.33 percent by Helios Investment Partners.
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Printed by Helios Press, Shit People At Gigs will be launched August 25 at Melbourne's Old Bar with performances by The Pink Tiles, Eat Man and Piss Factory.
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Investors loved it when Helios and Matheson bought a majority stake in MoviePass, led by former Netflix vice president Mitch Lowe, for $27 million in August last year.
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"Surge fees" consistently keep going up and the company's owner, Helios and Matheson Analytics, filed for a $5 million loan to keep the company afloat, per Business Insider.
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The model made popular by Helios and Matheson Analytics-owned MoviePass has drawn attention from theaters and investors, in part for the subscription's failure to turn a profit.
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Helios and Matheson disclosed in an SEC filing last month that it estimated an average cash deficit of $21 million a month for the seven months through April.
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Helios and Matheson's stock price has been trading at such low levels — it closed at about 2 cents on Wednesday — that the company is danger of being delisted.
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An auditor even expresses "substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern," while Helios, at this point, has lost $20 million a month since September.
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A Predator Helios 700 with 16GB DDR4 and 512GB of storage normally retails for $2,199.99, but you can score one on Amazon for just $1,799 — a $400.99 savings.
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The popular movie subscription card company announced the higher price Tuesday, sending Helios and Matheson stock up 150 percent to a session high of $2.00 before being halted.
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"Inflation might be creeping up but we're nowhere near the doomsday scenario of it getting out of control," said Joe Mallen, chief investment officer with Helios Quantitative Research.
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Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Helios and Matheson Analytics, MoviePass' parent company, stock fell as much as 4 percent during after-hours trading on Wednesday.
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The company announced Tuesday that the new entity, MoviePass Entertainment Holdings, will take over full ownership of the service and other film related assets held by Helios and Matheson.
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Thanks in part to the failures of MoviePass, $0503 million worth of Helios and Matheson stock Farnsworth was awarded in 2050 was worth less than $22017 as of Dec.
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The idea behind Helios Touch is to help people with complete blindness by using software that can describe their nearby environment and then communicate with them via haptic impulses.
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That's seven times closer than the previous proximity record, held by the Helios 2 spacecraft, which came within 27 million miles (43 million km) of the Sun in 1976.
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According to the statement, Helios and Matheson will pay Oath (Verizon) $1 million in cash and supply it with about $8 million worth of common shares in its company.
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Farnsworth, the head of MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics, has an impressively checkered past that is full of bizarre businesses and get-rich-quick schemes, and lawsuits.
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Last month, shares in its parent company, Helios and Matheson, plummeted when it revealed it only had enough cash on hand to keep going for a few more weeks.
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What's remarkable about MoviePass's downfall is how quickly things fell apart in just a few months after the company was acquired by data firm Helios & Matheson in December 2017.
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In the bestselling novel "Circe" — optioned by WarnerMedia for its forthcoming HBO Max streaming service — the daughter of the Greek god Helios tames wild beasts and menaces the gods.
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"People are going to less than one movie a month," Helios and Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth said on Tuesday during a chat at The Wrap's entertainment industry conference, TheGrill.
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Helios and Matheson is a data analytics company, ultimately, and when it acquired MoviePass in 2017 it was apparent that it wasn't suddenly pivoting to just selling movie tickets.
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Prior to the Helios 215.6, I haven't tested a sub-$2300,210 laptop that can play Rainbow Six: Siege and League of Legends, at a consistent 2300 frames per second.
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Analysts said investors were relieved that a summer slowdown at Helios and a further negative impact from a U.S. dialysis treatment coordination program known as ESCO did not materialize.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics disclosed in an SEC filing Tuesday that it estimated its average cash deficit was about $53 million a month for the seven months through April.
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However, while $24 is cheap among capable gaming PCs, we felt it was too close to the $21 mark to name the Predator Helios 22.0 a top budget pick.
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Related: NASA Just Released a Bunch of Sweet Vintage Space Posters Air Travel Anxieties Get a Group Show [Premiere] Float Over a Digital Desert in Helios' Interactive Album, 'Yume'
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London-based Helios Investment, which owns a 60 percent stake in Telkom, is looking to partly cash out of the investment which it entered in 2015, the sources said.
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Under Helios and Matheson's ownership, Farnsworth and Lowe dropped the price by more than 5003 percent, despite Spikes' best efforts to dissuade them against the idea, Business Insider reported.
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Still, the plunge stands as Helios and Matheson's worst week on record since going public in 1997, even worse than last week's 6873 percent punishment for the top spot.
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Parker has also claimed the title of the fastest human-made object in history from Helios 2, as it surfed near the Sun at over 153,000 miles per hour.
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Sara Salinas | Jim Forkin The New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has opened a probe into MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC.
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In August, Helios and Matheson reported it lost $100 million in the second quarter, putting the company on pace to blow through its remaining assets in the span of months.
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When the merchant stopped processing payments — resulting in subscribers not being able to purchase tickets — MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson secured a $5 million loan to fix the situation.
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Those latter funds represent money from annual and other long-term subscriptions that MoviePass customers have already paid, and that Helios & Matheson will receive over the course of the year.
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Even if Helios were to receive all of its payments from merchant processors back, it barely has enough cash to stay afloat for two months before the well runs dry.
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MoviePass's parent Helios and Matheson Analytics acquired the assets to Emmett Furla Oasis Films back in May, transforming it into a film financing wing of the then-popular theater service.
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It raised the 2018 operating profit guidance for Fresenius Vamed and lowered the outlook for Fresenius Helios as a result but said that group earnings would not be significantly affected.
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An independent auditor for MoviePass's owner, Helios and Matheson Analytics, said it had "substantial doubt" about the company's ability to remain in business, according to a report from Business Insider.
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Within the PredatorSense app, you can control the Helios 300's fan modes (auto, max, or a custom speed) as well as overclocking the GPU's clock speed (when plugged in).
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This announcement came as Business Insider waited for comment from Helios and Matheson on a story that detailed the company's attempts to sell MoviePass and Moviefone and its continued layoffs.
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Juonran's cousin, Sear Helios, named for the department store his parents visited on a trip to Honolulu, steered from the stern of the canoe with a 50-pound wooden paddle.
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Helios and Matheson, an analytics firm that bought a majority stake in MoviePass this month, said the surge in new subscribers had surpassed the company's membership projections through late 2018.
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As the CEO of Helios and Matheson, however, Farnsworth set his sights on Hollywood, and he decided to acquire the six-year-old film-subscription service MoviePass in summer 2017.
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Helios said it had received "considerable interest" from institutional investors who were supportive of its business plan and growth prospects but its shareholders had decided to withdraw the planned listing.
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"The Verdi collective bargaining commission has voted unanimously to call on Helios employees to engage in industrial action and token strikes," the trade union said in a statement on Wednesday.
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In August, Helios and Matheson reported a loss of $100 million in the second quarter, putting the company on pace to blow through its remaining assets in the span of months.
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In order to continue this test phase in which a lot of factors have to come together, Helios & Matheson announced that it was raising another $100 million in investment last month.
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When Circe is born to Helios, god of the sun, it's immediately clear that she's not like her powerful, dangerous parents — so she joins the mortal world in search of companionship.
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The next fastest vehicle was Helios 2, another spacecraft meant to study the Sun, that reached a speed of more than 220,93 miles per hour when it moved away from Earth.
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A Helios & Matheson filing from earlier this month suggested that the company was looking to raise up to $1.2 billion in equity and debt financing to fund MoviePass' operations and growth.
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In August 2017, MoviePass sold a majority stake to Helios and Matheson and shifted its pricing model, from a tiered rate beginning at $15 to a flat monthly rate of $9.95.
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Helios Towers had originally priced its IPO at 115-145 pence per share, a source familiar with the matter had told Reuters, implying a valuation of $1.42 billion to $1.79 billion.
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Fresenius' sales in the fourth quarter rose 7 percent to 8.8 billion euros, as a strong performance at its Kabi generics unit offset declines at its Helios hospitals business and FMC.
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As reported in TechCrunch in 2016, the Helios Investment Partners backed company (now beyond startup phase) was poised for a listing on the London stock exchanges at a $1 billion valuation.
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It creates liquidity for the primary shareholders, and will bring Vitol's ownership down to 40 percent, from 55 percent, and that of Helios to 30 percent, from 44 percent, Chammas said.
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At the time, Helios and Matheson characterized the site as an asset in building its relationships with theaters and movie studios for MoviePass, as well as another space for advertising revenue.
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A former employee involved with discussions about pricing believed the company never intended on a $14.95 price and only wanted to see if the news would cause Helios stock to climb.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Vodacom Tanzania Plc , majority owned by South Africa's Vodacom Group , has sold its stake in a local unit of Helios Towers Africa for $58.5 million.
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Among the gainers, Bharti Airtel rose 1 percent after India's largest telecoms network operator divested 950 telecom towers in the Democratic Republic of Congo to Helios Towers Africa to reduce debt.
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After the company hit three million subscribers this week, Ted Farnsworth, the head of MoviePass' parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, claimed the company could break even at five million subscribers.
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In the house of Helios, Circe is born as an outcast among her family of gods, seemingly without their powers — until she discovers, through her anger, that she is a witch.
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But if company leaders are fazed, they aren't showing it: "I'm not worried about the viability of MoviePass at all," Ted Farnsworth, chief executive of Helios and Matheson, told The Times.
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As things currently stand, you can snag a 512GB SSD Predator Helios 300 with 16GB DDR4 SDRAM on Amazon for just $1,499 — that's $300.99 off its suggested retail price of $1,799.99.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics, the owner of the defunct movie-ticket subscription startup MoviePass, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Wednesday, according to a filling with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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MoviePass parent's CEO says its rebooted subscription service is already (sort of) profitable We interviewed the CEO of Helios and Matheson Analytics to discuss the service's tumultuous year and future plans. 4.
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"Manufacturing has been pretty weak across the globe for a while now and we are starting to see that bleed into U.S.," said Joe Mallen, chief investment officer at Helios Quantitative Research.
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Meanwhile, the New York attorney general's office said it was investigating MoviePass for possible securities fraud, and parent company Helios and Matheson said it would spin off MoviePass into a separate company.
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The more austerely named Helios and Matheson Analytics had one heck of a tough quarter, posting a $126.6 million operating loss, as compared to a loss of $2.7 million a year prior.
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Most other high-end gaming laptops, like the MSI GS65, operate in the same ballpark, with the only major differences between them and the Helios 300 being the thinner and lighter frames.
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After she turns a nymph, Scylla, into a six-headed sea monster, Helios banishes Circe to a remote island where she spends centuries in exile, with wolves and lions as her companions.
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LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - African mobile networks operator Helios Towers has priced its initial public offering at 115 pence per share, giving it a market capitalisation of 1.15 billion pounds ($189.41 million).
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MoviePass is also trying to keep the company looking attractive to investors, who may have been spooked by the New York attorney general's fraud investigation into its parent company, Helios and Matheson.
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Vivo, established in December 2011 through the carve-out of Shell's African downstream business, is wholly owned by Vitol, the world's largest oil trader, and Helios, an Africa-focused private investment firm.
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Taking drastic measures to keep the company aliveOne big way MoviePass covered its massive losses was by selling millions of new shares to individual investors through Helios & Matheson's Nasdaq-listed stock, HMNY.
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The venture capitalists who invested early in MoviePass were paid out when the startup was bought by Helios and Matheson Analytics in a deal that valued it at more than $50 million.
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In a release sent out on Tuesday, the company announced that Farnsworth had submitted an offer to purchase MoviePass and other assets owned by Helios and Matheson, including MoviePass Films and Moviefone.
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The big picture, from Axios' Sara Fischer: Shares for MoviePass' parent company Helios and Matheson plunged yesterday after the company basically conceded that MoviePass' structure is forcing it to burn through cash.
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According to separate filings with the SEC last year, MoviePass and its various other businesses, including a film production and distribution arm, cost Helios and Matheson more than half a billion dollars.
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FRANKFURT, May 3 (Reuters) - Fresenius on Tuesday told analysts not to expect any immediate takeovers to strengthen its Helios hospitals business, for which it has been seeking deal targets outside of Germany.
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To better understand what exactly happened here — not just why the revamped company failed, but what set it down its comically self-destructive path — it's best to start with Helios and Matheson.
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MoviePass' parent company, Helios and Matheson, has lost nearly all its market value in recent weeks as MoviePass has sought emergency loans and faced growing uncertainty about the longevity of the business.
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FRANKFURT, Feb 20 (Reuters) - German trade union Verdi said on Wednesday it was calling on staff at Fresenius SE's hospitals division Helios to take strike action to underpin demands for higher wages.
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To date, the company has been subsidizing the cost of tickets through the influx of capital it received after selling a majority stake – $27 million – to data firm Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.
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For those who game or stream on the go, laptops like the Acer Nitro 5 and Acer Predator Helios 500 offer fast performance and solid framerates that you can bring with you anywhere.
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Last week, the New York Attorney General launched a probe into Helios and Matheson to determine whether the company misled investors regarding the company's financials, a person familiar with the investigation told CNBC.
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Helios and Matheson borrowed $5 million in cash on Friday to pay back its fulfillment provider and get the service up and running again, but at press time the app was still down.
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"Manufacturing has been pretty weak across the globe for a while now and we are starting to see that bleed into the U.S.," said Joe Mallen, chief investment officer at Helios Quantitative Research.
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Telkom, which is 60 percent owned by London-based Helios Investment, accounted for 9 percent of Kenyan mobile telecom subscribers last September, behind second-placed Airtel, which had a 22.3 percent market share.
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In Ms. Miller's version, Circe's encounter with Odysseus is only a slice of her story, which unfolds over thousands of years and begins in the palace of her father, the sun god Helios.
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Simon Stevens, the NHS's chief executive, cites health firms such as Apollo in India, Helios in Germany and several American outfits that have saved money through shared staffing, back-office functions and procurement.
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The deal would expand the operations of Fresenius's Helios unit, which is already Germany's largest hospital operator, by adding IDC Salud Holding, known as Quirónsalud, for 5.8 billion euros, or about $6.5 billion.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics is looking to sell its two key properties, the movie-ticket-subscription app MoviePass and the movie-ticket site Moviefone, multiple sources close to the company told Business Insider.
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In our recent interview, the CEO of MoviePass parent Helios and Matheson suggested that the service was a victim of its own success, growing the service faster than its staff could ultimately manage.
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Her unhappy youth is explained, as the eldest and least cherished of Perse's children by Helios, mocked for her unlovely voice (she will learn later, from Hermes, that "you sound like a mortal").
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The group's Helios hospital division, which has continued to stabilise in Germany and grow in Spain, will keep looking for opportunities to expand this year after making several acquisitions in Colombia, Sturm said.
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But Ted Farnsworth (former Helios & Matheson CEO) and Mitch Lowe (MoviePass's CEO and a former executive at Netflix and Redbox) seemed to have never really grokked the way the movie theater business works.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY), the owner of the popular movie-theater subscription service MoviePass, was created by HMIT over a decade ago, after HMIT bought and renamed a New York consulting firm.
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On October 29, 2018, Parker set the proximity record when it came to within 42.7 million kilometers (26.5 million miles) of the Sun's surface, shattering the old record held by the Helios 2 probe.
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Investors apparently like what they're hearing because they sent shares of Helios and Matheson up by 8 percent this afternoon, and MoviePass is planning to go public in March of 2018 according to Bloomberg.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics is looking to push additional capital into its prime and wildly popular asset, MoviePass, by raising money in a new stock sale that appears to be giving Wall Street fits.
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The service interruption comes the same week the CEO of MoviePass' parent company, Helios and Matheson, hinted at introducing a Rotten Tomatoes-style ratings system in order to further ~shake up~ the movie industry.
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"The manufacturing data is not really new, the housing data on the other hand is starting to show a softening consumer," said Joe Mallen chief investment officer at Helios Quantitative Research in Tampa, Florida.
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In a new filing today with the SEC, Helios informed investors that it had $15.5 million in available cash, with another $27.9 million in accounts receivable from members of MoviePass on longer-term subscriptions.
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MoviePass exploded in popularity after it was acquired last year by data analytics firm Helios and Matheson, which subsequently slashed its subscription price from as much as $50 a month to less than $10.
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Fresenius said its hospitals division Helios, which had long acted as a drag on its results due to decreasing admissions and staff shortages in Germany, recorded strong organic sales growth in its home market.
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Read more: The definitive story of how a controversial Florida businessman blew up MoviePass and burned hundreds of millionsMoviePass will shut down on Saturday, its parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, announced on Friday.
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The other big players in the market are Bharti Airtel's Kenyan unit, which has a 19.7 percent market share, and Telkom Kenya, controlled by London-based Helios Investment, with 8.6 percent of the market.
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On Monday at 2000:04 PM ET, the Parker Solar Probe passed within 26.55 million miles of the solar surface, breaking a record set in April 1976 by the German-American Helios 2 mission.
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Business Insider's report looks at how Ted Farnsworth, CEO of MoviePass parent company Helios & Matheson Analytics, and MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe, transformed the company from a little-known subscription service to a nationwide sensation.
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It is now reportedly getting spun out of Helios & Matheson, probably because its owners' stock price has plummeted into nightmare territory and they've had to launch a fire sale just to keep funding MoviePass operations.
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One mosaic depicts the Greco-Roman sun-god Helios surrounded by the signs of the zodiac accompanied by personifications of the months, and another mosaic depicts an historical event that may involve Alexander the Great.
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Today Ted Farnsworth, CEO of the data analytics firm Helios & Matheson — which purchased a majority stake in MoviePass in 23, setting off the service's across-the-board price reductions — released a statement defending the move.
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The animated film, illustrated and narrated by Phan herself, further explains why she disappeared for a year — and what her plans are next, including re-launching Em Cosmetics and creating her first comic, Helios: Femina.
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By Friday's close, Helios and Matheson had lost another 30 percent during the session, falling to an implied market value of roughly $400,000 (based on the most recently stated outstanding share count of 6,687,647 shares).
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Among the specific sports marketing companies that prosecutors are scrutinizing, according to the subpoena, is Helios Partners, a firm that has lobbied global sports officials to award high-profile events to particular cities and countries.
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" As for when it turned the corner, he added, "I will tell you this, because it's out there: MoviePass has actually paid Helios back money over the past several months, towards the loans that they have.
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Don't wait for Black Friday sales to get a new laptop: The Acer Predator Helios 2256 is one of the best Windows laptops and best budget gaming laptops, and it's on sale for $2999.99 at Amazon.
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To say MoviePass has been struggling lately would be an understatement, and it's easy to see why Helios and Matheson would want to spin it off into its own company to distance MoviePass from its brand.
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But Jefferies analyst James Vane-Tempest said it was too early to call a stabilisation trend at Helios given the company faces challenges from reforms to the German hospital payments system that kick in next year.
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Shortly after that news dropped, we sat down with Helios and Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth to discuss the company's rocky year, and how he intends to right the ship long after most have discounted MoviePass outright.
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The parent company of upstart movie-theater subscription service, Helios and Matheson Analytics, is bleeding money, and shares plummeted more than 40 percent yesterday after it announced the pricing of a $30 million public share offering.
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But shortly after analytics firm Helios and Matheson acquired a majority stake in the company in August 2017, MoviePass dropped its monthly rate below $10 for a subscription that offered users one movie ticket per day.
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According to Spikes, when the analytics firm Helios and Matheson bought a majority stake in MoviePass, the proposal asked MoviePass to temporarily lower the subscription price to $10 so that it could build to 100,000 subscribers.
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At the time, Helios and Matheson, which was run by the penny-stock guru Ted Farnsworth and had ties to an Indian company accused of massive fraud, was listed on the Nasdaq with the ticker HMNY.
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The two analysts tracked by Thomson Reuters who follow Helios and Matheson both have a buy rating on its shares and a target price of $12, implying that it has an enterprise value of $1.2 billion.
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The company is the dominant operator in the East African nation, commanding a huge lead over the other two operators, Bharti Airtel and Telkom Kenya, which is controlled by Africa-focused, London-based investment fund Helios.
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In a curious twist, the prison's own chaplain commissioned Helios Gómez Rodríguez, an anarchist painter and poet, to turn his cell into a chapel, with a painted fresco of a Gypsy Virgin surrounded by black angels.
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Photo: GettyAfter launching a service that seemed too good to be true, MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson have abruptly announced that the beleaguered movie ticket subscription service will be shutting down permanently tomorrow, September 14th.
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As a result, Farnsworth has removed himself from Helios' board and stepped down from his role as CEO, after having contributed to the company losing more than half a billion dollars over the last two years.
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The CEO of Helios and Metheson Analytics, which now owns a majority stake in the MoviePass, told Bloomberg that the data collected about viewing habits could eventually be used to serve advertisements or other marketing to users.
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Leveraging a background in computer vision and artificial intelligence, he and his team have designed Helios, which uses Intel® RealSense™ 3D cameras to give those with severe visual impairments a clearer view of the world.
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Citing an online poll from National Research Group, Helios claimed that when MoviePass recommends films, partners with studios, or promotes its own movies, it currently accounts for 20 percent to 45 percent of the national box office.
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According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that MoviePass's parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, made on Friday morning, it had to take out a $5 million short-term loan to pay some of its partners.
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The US military is increasingly looking to use lasers on the battlefield, and a new report suggests that the Navy is planning to equip an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer with a HELIOS laser defense system in 2021.
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During the Helios investigation, according to notes from interviews with multiple employees who participated in the inquiry, investigators were informed of two other complaints made in late 2000 about Goodstein's management style more broadly, regardless of gender.
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Though the daughter of Helios, god of the sun, Circe is banished to a desert island by Zeus, there she bonds with mortals, interacts with legendary figures (Madea, the Minotaur, and more), and sharpens her witch powers.
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Earlier this year, MoviePass temporarily went down because it ran out of money, and its most recent quarterly earnings from August show that Helios and Matheson has been burning through cash trying to keep the service afloat.
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When Helios & Matheson first took over and dropped the service's price to $9.95 a month, MoviePass was hailed as a savior, a digital disruptor offering customers a movie-ticket value that seemed too good to be true.
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"If we are unable to obtain sufficient amounts of additional capital," reads the Helios & Matheson filing, "we may be required to reduce the scope of our planned growth or otherwise alter our business model, objectives and operations."
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The ISOLDE team got the idea from Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, which first used an MRI magnet in their own Helical Orbit Spectrometer, or HELIOS, that surrounds a source of stable, not radioactive beams.
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The deal, announced late on Monday, will cement Fresenius's position as Europe's largest private hospital operator, adding Quironsalud's 2.5 billion euros of sales expected for 2016 to roughly 33 billion at Fresenius's Germany-based hospitals business Helios.
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And then it had its revamp in 2002 with the "helios," this sun-god kind of flower, that's very symbolic of renewable energy, which they then cancelled any attempt to go near, and stuck with the opposite.
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From Ted Farnsworth, CEO of Helios & Matheson: When HMNY acquired the majority stake in MoviePass, we made the strategic decision to reduce monthly subscription fees to $9.95 a month to get movie fans back into the theaters.
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The team of researchers behind the newest paper was able to add evidence to that region thanks to a pair of spacecraft that haven't sent data back to the Earth since the 1980s: Helios 1 and 2.
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The sale by Telkom Kenya, which is 60 percent owned by London-based Helios Investment Partners and is Kenya's third-biggest telecoms company by users, takes American Tower Corp into its fifth African country and 17th worldwide.
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"We have always known, from when MoviePass took off in August, that it was going to be a high cash burn business model," Ted Farnsworth, chairman and CEO of Helios and Matheson Analytics, said in a statement.
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After Helios and Matheson took a controlling stake in MoviePass in 2017, the service dropped its price to $10 per month, and the gargantuan losses, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, began in earnest.
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Sure enough, in April Helios and Matheson warned in its annual report that its independent auditors had "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue as a going concern and this may hinder its capacity to get financing.
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MoviePass' parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, blew through hundreds of millions of dollars trying to keep MoviePass afloat and was delisted from the Nasdaq in February after its stock had been trading below $1 for months.
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As all this was going on, I talked to Ted Farnsworth, the CEO of Helios and Matheson Analytics, MoviePass's parent company, about the service's financial health, why theaters love MoviePass, and what it does with users' information.
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Recently, Lowe secured some crucial partnerships that ease the ticketing process and brought in the data firm Helios and Matheson to inject some cash for the next big push to make this service more than a niche product.
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Two days after MoviePass announced the return of the company's unlimited ticket plan, Ted Farnsworth, CEO of its parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics, sat down with TechCrunch to offer insight into the state of the beleaguered service.
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Mitch Lowe, the man responsible for coming up with the impeachment marketing tactic, spent the last few years pumping air from his lungs into the troubled Helios and Matheson Analytics, the parent company of the infamous startup MoviePass.
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It also might sell your data: this summer, the company sold a majority stake to the data firm Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc, and it hopes to eventually use the data from subscribers for marketing and advertising materials.
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For a more traditional theater experience, choreographer and artistic director of Helios Dance Theater, Laura Gorenstein Miller created Minor Obsessions, a suite of 10 duets and eight-piece finale, which is having its world premiere at — where else?
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Losses undoubtedly stem from MoviePass' struggle to generate revenue from its theater subscription service, which launched just under a year ago for $9.95 a month after the company sold a majority of its stake to Helios and Matheson.
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YouTube superstar Michelle Phan announced back in July that she was releasing a digital comic – a passion project she's been dreaming up for years – named Helios: Femina, and now her fantasy world has finally found on LINE Webtoon.
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Along with a new snazzed up new unibody design, the 5.5-inch handset features a deca-core Helios X20 processor from MediaTek and an impressively large 4100mAh battery, a bump from the Note 3's already healthy 4000mAh.
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In corporate speak: "The $5.0 million cash proceeds received from the Demand Note will be used by the Company to pay the Company's merchant and fulfillment processors," Helios and Matheson noted in a SEC filing, Business Insider reported.
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Helios is planning a free float of at least 25% of the company, with a listing on the London Stock Exchange, and will use the proceeds to expand its services, including possibly into new countries, it has said.
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To sweeten the pot, the project is offering as Kickstarter rewards (in addition to the camera, of course) refurbished off-brand (but still well-known) lenses: a Helios-4503 56mm f/2 and a Pentacon 50mm F/1.8.
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MoviePass's parent company and majority shareholder, Helios and Matheson Analytics, today announced its plans to acquire the entire film library and current production slate of Emmett Furla Oasis Films (EFO Films) in order to create MoviePass Films LLC.
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Telkom, which is 60 percent owned by London-based Helios Investment with the rest held by the government, has an 8.6 percent market share or 3.8 million subscribers, ranking it third behind Safaricom and Bharti Airtel's Kenya unit.
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CEO Mitch Lowe said in an interview with Cheddar Wednesday the company will be profitable in 6-9 months, despite dragging shares for its parent company Helios and Matheson down by roughly 99 percent in the last year.
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Parent company Helios and Matheson's stock price briefly spiked on Tuesday after the MoviePass announcement, reaching $2300 per share, before ultimately tumbling again to close at just 21998 cents, leaving it down by 20093 percent on the day.
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Helios is planning a free float of at least 25% of the company, with a listing on the London Stock Exchange, and will use the proceeds for expanding its services, including possibly into new countries, it has said.
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MoviePass and parent company Helios and Matheson (HMNY) has flailed wildly throughout 2018, abruptly making major changes to the movie subscription service, watching its stock prices walk off a cliff and seeking emergency infusions of cash in the process.
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Part of the MoviePass plan has been to get theater chains to cut the service in on ticket sales and concessions revenue it generates, which would offer a fresh stream of income right when Helios & Matheson needs it most.
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NASA and the German Test and Research Institute for Aviation and Space Flight (today called the German Aerospace Center or DLR), launched the Helios probes in 1974 and 1976 in order to understand the particles emitted by the Sun.
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London, March 13 (Reuters) - African mobile networks operator Helios Towers plans to list on the main market of the London Stock Exchange in early April and expects the company to be valued at around 2 billion pounds ($2.75 billion).
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Founded in 2011, the company didn't take off until 2017, led by Mitch Lowe, a former executive with Netflix and Redbox, and Theodore Farnsworth, the chief executive of Helios + Matheson, the publicly traded entity that acquired MoviePass that year.
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Helios + Matheson said late Friday that it had formed a strategic review committee to explore "strategic and financial alternatives," including a possible sale of the company in its entirety, a sale of some of its assets or a reorganization.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Helios Towers has ditched its plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) in London which was expected to value the business at about 2 billion pounds ($2.8 billion), the African mobile networks operator said on Thursday.
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As MoviePass is scrambling around trying to convince the outside world that everything is just fine, Helios and Matheson is reportedly on the verge of being thrown off stock exchanges, and its constant pivots continue to play poorly in the press.
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According to Bloomberg, MoviePass' parent company Helios & Matheson reported in a Tuesday filing that it's down to just $15.5 million in cash as of the end of April—at a time when it's burning through around $21.7 million a month.
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"We believe that the measures we began rolling out last week will immediately reduce cash burn by 60 percent and will continue to generate lower funding needs in the future," Ted Farnsworth, Chairman and CEO of Helios, said in a statement.
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In a press release on Tuesday, the movie theater subscription platform's parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, said it's reshuffling how its plans will work in a way that will apparently cut the amount of cash it's burning by 60 percent.
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To add more headaches, one shareholder has filed a class action lawsuit in the Southern District court of New York against Helios & Matheson, plus its CEO Ted Farnsworth and CFO Stuart Benson, for being misled about the company's business and prospects.
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Helios Herrera of the University of Warwick and his colleagues Luigi Guiso and Massimo Morelli look across countries to find that trust in political systems is negatively related to self-reported income difficulties, unemployment, age, and education, amongst other factors.
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Last August it made a deal to sell a majority stake to the data analytics company Helios and Matheson, which decided to lower the rate to just $9.95 per month and allow customers to see up to one movie per day.
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MoviePass parent Helios and Matheson has quietly posted its quarterly earnings report, revealing that operating losses have ballooned from less than $3 million this quarter last year to $126.6 million in the three-month period ending on June 30th, 13.
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Related: Composing for Humans and Computers: Pantha du Prince Discusses Songwriting for the Bell Laboratory Philip Glass' Compositions Get New Versions From Pantha du Prince, Amon Tobin, Beck and Others [Premiere] Float Over a Digital Desert in Helios' Interactive Album, 'Yume'
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Not only will the Parker probe venture seven times closer to the Sun than the previous record-holder, the 1976 NASA mission Helios 2, it will also become the fastest human-made object in history, traveling at 450,000 miles per hour.
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Vivo energy, a result of a partnership between energy trader Vitol Group and Africa-focused private equity firm Helios Investment, said half-year sales volume grew 8% to $4.68 billion, helped by contribution from Engen, acquired in March this year.
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When Helios & Matheson acquired a majority stake in the company last August, it dropped its price point—which had once been as high as $50 a month—to $9.95 in the hopes of scaling rapidly, which is exactly what happened.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - MoviePass, a U.S. movie ticket subscription service owned by data company Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc , offers a cautionary tale of the dangers of a disruptive company caught too soon in the unforgiving glare of the public markets.
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Helios is the third African mobile towers business scheduled to float in 2018, with IHS Towers and Eaton Towers also preparing for listings to fund infrastructure investment as economic growth in Africa drives increased use of smartphones and demand for data.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics, which owns MoviePass and trades on the Nasdaq exchange, said in a securities filing last month that it had only $6.2 million in cash on hand and about $23.3 million on deposit held by credit card processors.
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In all of these stories, Circe is at once important and liminal, just as she is a figure of uncertain powers, a minor immortal, the daughter of Helios, god of the sun and a Titan, and Perse, a lowly naiad.
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LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - African mobile networks operator Helios Towers Ltd priced its initial public offering at 115-145 pence per share on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, implying a valuation of $1.42 billion to $1.79 billion.
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"When it comes to Helios international activity, ... we are still studying that market and we're not at a stage where we're making a deal right now," Fresenius Chief Executive Ulf Schneider said in a conference call discussing first-quarter results.
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Farnsworth, ever the savvy businessman who seems incapable of admitting defeat, is now trying to buy out MoviePass and Helios and Matheson from its Indian parent company, using funds sourced from his personal investments and an unknown group of fellow financiers.
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Ink and watercolor designs, known as flash, grew ever more wide-ranging, running from standard stars-and-stripes motifs to soft-core pornography to elevated symbolic fare (Rock of Ages; Helios, the Greek sun god), with degrees of fanciness determining price.
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Helios said in the news release that the spinoff is subject to several conditions, including the completion of audited financial statements of MoviePass entertainment and the approved listing of shares of the new company on Nasdaq or another trading market.
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In the letter, he also referenced an image posted on Instagram that shows Ellis and several MoviePass and Helios executives lounging on a yacht in Miami together during an event that Khalid Itum, EVP of MoviePass, allegedly described as a "business" event.
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Tema LNG, backed by Africa-focused private equity firm Helios Investment, signed deals with China Harbour Engineering Company to build onshore facilities and Jiangnan Shipyard for a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), the Ghanaian government said in a statement issued on Monday.
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In April 2018, MoviePass's parent company, Helios & Matheson, bought the film production company Emmett Furla Oasis Films to create MoviePass Films (fun fact: Randall Emmett, one of the partners of Emmett Furla Oasis, is the boyfriend of Lala Kent on Vanderpump Rules).
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Paga CEO Tayo Oviosu, Helios Investment Partners Vice President Fope Adelowo and Cellulant CEO Ken Njoroge will take the stage September 7 to discuss topics such as fintech, Africa's founder experience, data privacy, VC investment and the continent's future unicorn and IPO prospects.
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"Most men are able to shrug it off and it doesn't seem to have as big an impact on their growth at [Revolution Messaging] or their relationship with Goodstein as it does for women," the complainant told Helios, according to the interview notes.
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Bloomberg reports that an SEC filing today largely confirms that assessment, with Helios & Matheson acknowledging it has just $15.5 million in the bank, even though it's been blowing through more than $21 million per month on average over the past seven months.
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Bankhaus Lampe analysts were encouraged the company had managed to stop the margin erosion at its Helios Germany hospitals business, even though sales fell 6 percent and operating profit declined 16 percent, hurt by a nursing shortage and a less pronounced flu season.
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The Helios 300's 1.05-inch chassis isn't the thinnest, and it doesn't have the highest quality build I've seen in a laptop for this price, but it does well to mask most of my fingerprints, despite its dark metal palm rest.
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The company, which was created in 2011 by a partnership between energy trader Vitol Group and Africa-focused private equity firm Helios Investment, expects to exceed its earlier target of opening 80 retail stations across its existing 15 African markets this year.
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Safaricom is also Kenya's biggest firm by market capitalisation and dwarfs the two other operators in the mobile market: the local subsidiary of India's Bharti Airtel and Orange, which the French telecoms company agreed last year to sell to London-based Helios Partners.
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It's hard to understand how these kind of tactics line up with statements like, "From day one, MoviePass has been 100 percent for our subscribers," as Ted Farnsworth, the CEO of MoviePass parent company Helios & Matheson, said in a press release last month.
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One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Colossus of Rhodes was a bronze and iron statue of the sun-god Helios, which stood over 100 feet tall in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name.
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Last month, penny-stock guru Ted Farnsworth stepped down as the CEO of Helios and Matheson Analytics, the parent company of MoviePass, so he could make a bid for the defunct movie-ticket-subscription service after turning it into a cash-burning machine.
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Helios and Matheson Chief Executive Ted Farnsworth, who transformed the company to focus almost exclusively on MoviePass, told Reuters that he does not regret bringing MoviePass into the public markets, rather than trying to grow it with venture-capital investments like other unicorns.
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Many people in Hollywood and on Wall Street think that MoviePass will fail because it loses money on heavy users; Helios and Matheson Analytics, which owns MoviePass, has seen its publicly traded shares fall from $22015 last year to 53 cents on Friday.
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Helios and Matheson had also set up a "strategic review committee" to "identify, review, and explore all strategic and financial alternatives" for keeping the business alive, which included selling its assets like MoviePass, movie listing service Moviefone, and the production arm MoviePass Films.
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"We aren't here at Sundance to compete with distributors, but rather to put skin in the game alongside them and to bring great films to the big screen across the country for our subscribers," said Ted Farnsworth, CEO of Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.
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Here are the details Lowe and Itum outlined to Variety: MoviePass is also working to spin itself off from Helios and Matheson, the data mining firm that bought a majority stake in the company in the summer of 2017, before it began its explosive growth.
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However, buying an annual subscription to MoviePass is a bit of risk for another reason, as well – the company is burning through cash extremely fast, and has only been able to hang on through continued investments from majority owner Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc.
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Not well, I'm afraid: Acer advertises around seven hours of usage on the Helios 300, but using it conservatively with the brightness turned down and keyboard backlit on, I could only squeeze out around five hours of usage of standard, non-gaming productivity work.
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Now we know what caused the lull in service: According to a Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure report filed by MoviePass's parent company, Helios and Matheson, earlier today, the company actually ran out of money to pay its partners to keep the app's services running.
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Fresenius's Helios unit, a chain of more than 100 German hospitals, will likely see a 3 to 5 percent revenue increase, excluding newly purchased hospitals, and it will no longer incur costs related to folding hospitals acquired from Rhoen-Klinikum AG into its organisation.
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Helios and Matheson's "board of directors has formed a strategic review committee, composed entirely of the company's independent directors, to identify, review, and explore all strategic and financial alternatives for the company, including a sale of the company in its entirety," the company said.
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Helios and Matheson Analytics, the parent company of movie theatre subscription service MoviePass, said Monday that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to generate up to $1.2 billion in equity and debt securities over the next three years.
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MoviePass' parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, lost $100 million in the second quarter, according to its most recent quarterly report filed late Tuesday, on pace to blow through its remaining assets in the next quarter if its new turnaround plan doesn't work out.
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The last we heard from MoviePass was that Ted Farnsworth, the financier who swooped in to become Helios and Matheson's CEO in 2016 and acquired MoviePass the following year, was trying to salvage the business using his own money and money from fellow investors.
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But in the US, Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY), a company born out of an HMIT acquisition that still has strong links to some executives who led the Indian company, is selling a different story — that of the moving picture and the silver screen.
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Most recently, parent company Helios and Matheson — which is facing a class-action lawsuit from its shareholders and a fraud investigation — spun MoviePass off into a separate company, in an apparent attempt to dissociate itself from the toxic reactions to the increasingly limited service it could provide.
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Helios & Matheson's stock price has continued to drop; after the company approved a 250-for-one reverse stock split last week that temporarily boosted its stock from eight cents to $21, by Friday afternoon it was down even further than before, at seven cents per share.
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Inspired by the historic architecture of the Theatre at the Ace, she put together a hybrid VR/AR/dance/theater duet with Helios Dance Theater, which is designed to be experienced with both Oculus Gear VR and AR via Microsoft's HoloLens, instead of inside an actual theater.
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Also announced is a special edition update of the 15.6-inch Helios 300 model, with a new 144Hz 1080p display, an updated eighth-generation Core i7+ processor, Nvidia GTX 1060 GPU, and Acer's Dual AeroBlade 3D cooling system in a new white-and-gold color scheme.
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Acer Predator Helios 300 Specs A "gaming" laptop, no matter its price, should be able to deliver high-end performance through a decent GPU and CPU and have the bare essentials to take advantage of that performance, such as a high refresh rate screen and reliable cooling.
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In a statement, Ted Farnsworth, CEO of MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics, said: We are – and have been – listening to our subscribers every day, and we understand that an uncapped subscription plan at the $9.95 price point is the most appealing option to our subscribers.
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The probe surpassed the previous record of 26.55 million miles from the star's surface on Monday October 29 at around 1:04 pm ET. The previous record was held by the Helios 2 craft, which was launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force station in 0003.
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At a time when manufacturers based in China are said to be looking for alternative locations to circumvent tariffs due to the trade war, India's tax cuts could make it more attractive to those companies, said Samir Arora, founder and fund manager at Helios Capital Management.
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It has attracted more than 28.8m subscribers and will lose "at least" $22017m this month, according to a filing to the Securities & Exchange Commission on July 23th by Helios & Matheson, a data firm which bought a majority stake in MoviePass last year and now owns 92% of it.
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TF: I will tell you this because this is out there, MoviePass has actually paid Helios back money over the last several months for loans that they have, so that gives you an idea of when we really started focusing on getting rid of the 20 percent of abuse.
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Whatever graphically-demanding game you've decided to obsess over recently, the Predator Helios 300 can handle it without flinching (even with Metro: Last Light Redux and Grand Theft Auto V). It works so hard that it does have a slight tendency to overheat, so keep it off your lap.
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Helios & Matheson, a data analysis firm, bought a majority stake in MoviePass about a year ago, just before the company lowered its subscription rate to about $21 a month and saw a massive uptick in subscribers, from about 2000,2175 in August 2000 to 33 million by February 23.
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Powered by NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 graphics and that same 9th Gen Intel Core i13 Processor, the Predator Triton 500 is an impressively thin 15.6-inch gaming laptop that's hella portable (as opposed to the Helios 700, whose heft pretty much requires it to live on a desktop).
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