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SAG-AFTRA Members Approve Four-Year Deal With AI Terms and Pension Merger
SAG-AFTRA members have ratified a four-year contract with the major studios, which includes new provisions on synthetic actors and a…
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‘Harry Potter’ Agency The Blair Partnership Signals Support for Paramount-WB Merger, Citing Studio’s ‘Long-Term Vision and Commitment to Exceptional Storytelling’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Neil Blair, founder of literary and entertainment agency The Blair Partnership, has signaled his confidence in the Paramount–Warner Bros.…
Business
SpaceX and xAI: A merger of ambition, optics, and unanswered questions
If you look at the press releases and breathless commentary around the recent acquisition of xAI by SpaceX, you might think we’re…
Business
Mediawan’s Pierre-Antoine Capton and North Road’s Peter Chernin Break Down Their Merger Deal: ‘This Isn’t Us Cashing Out — It’s Us Investing’
In an era defined by consolidation and scale, Mediawan’s acquisition of Peter Chernin’s North Road Company brings together one of Europe’s…
Business
Spanish Outdoor Furniture Firm Kettal Takes Majority Stake in Italy’s Driade
MILAN — Nemo Group, which acquired Driade in October 2024, has sold a majority stake in the Italian furniture house to Spain’s Kettal…
Business
Rio Tinto-Glencore merger may need asset sales to win over China
China’s antitrust regulator is likely to be concerned about a combined entity’s concentration in copper production and marketing…
Business
Banijay and All3Media in Talks for Production Merger (Report)
TV giants Banjiay and All3Media owner RedBirdIMI are reportedly in talks to merge their TV production businesses. According to Reuters,…
Business
Blackstone eyes US$2.6 billion of debt to finance power merger
Electricity demand is soaring globally as the data centres needed for Big Tech’s artificial intelligence objectives put pressure on power…
Business
China Aviation Oil confirms Sinopec merger with parent CNAF
State administrators have given the nod for the merger following deliberation, says CAO The parent company of China Aviation Oil (CAO)…
Culture
The Warner Bros.-Netflix merger could doom Hollywood film workers
In the months following 2023’s Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists…
Business
2 big rail unions oppose $85 billion Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger
The proposed $85 billion merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads has lost the support of two unions that represent more…
Lifestyle
Destination XL to Merge With FullBeauty, Creating a $1.2B Extended Sizes Business
Destination XL Group, Inc. and its longtime competitor KingSize are merging. On Thursday, the Canton, Mass.-based men’s big and tall…
Business
Additional spectrum from Simba-M1 merger would give new entity ‘structural advantage’, says StarHub
Telcos react to proposed merger; Circles.Life is concerned about the new entity’s pole position in the wholesale market The proposed…
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No Grab-GoTo merger notification yet: Singapore competition watchdog
The competition watchdog here has not received any notification from ride-hailing firms Grab or GoTo on any proposed merger, but said it…
Business
Potential CapitaLand-Mapletree merger must be examined through an ESG lens
If a deal were to happen, it could create one of Asia’s largest real estate companies A possible merger between two Temasek-linked real…
Business
Circles.Life raises concerns over M1-Simba deal to IMDA, warns merger could hurt consumers
The telco says the merged entity’s wholesale market dominance threatens fair competition and consumer choice Mobile network operator…
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Indonesia discussing plan for merger of Grab and GoTo: official
Indonesia is discussing a possible merger or acquisition between ride-hailing and food delivery firm Grab and its rival GoTo, the…
Business
China Aviation Oil shares seesaw on talks of potential merger between parent CNAF and mega refiner Sinopec
Shares of China Aviation Oil (CAO) ended lower despite surging as much as 4.5 per cent on Tuesday (Nov 4) following word of a merger…
Business
Paramount begins 2,000-person layoff amid Skydance merger fallout
Paramount is the latest company to join the bloodbath of layoffs this week. The entertainment giant began cutting around 1,000 workers on…
Business
What Hollywood’s next potential merger means for streaming
One of Hollywood’s crown jewels is on the block: WarnerBros. Discovery, the parent company of HBO, CNN, and major movie franchises like…
Business
WGA Says Warner Bros. Merger Would Be a ‘Disaster’ for Writers
The Writers Guild of America came out swinging on Thursday against a merger between Warner Bros. and any other studio, saying such…
Business
Two Australian pensions confirm merger to form A$235 billion fund
Aware Super, one of Australia’s largest pensions, confirmed plans to merge with smaller rival TelstraSuper to form a A$235 billion (S$201…
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How the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger could give Trump more control over U.S. media
Following unprecedented threats from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, major affiliate station owners Nexstar and…
Business
Greenwich and Kent announce merger to form 'super-university'
Branwen Jeffreys Education Editor The UK's first "super-university", stretching across an entire region, is to be created through the…