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...As media groups such as CBS and Viacom consolidate, they are selling off overlapping studios, freeing up money to spend on making TV shows to stock their streaming services....
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...– Tesla v NIO. – Former Alphavillain v Blanchard. – Denmark’s children's TV show on the hardships of being well hung. – Covid demands fast decisions....
...This doesn’t mean we are in the midst of a V-shaped recovery, however....
...(FT) HK v SH The fight to attract IPOs used to play out between Hong Kong and Singapore but now the focus has moved northward....
...Looking ahead, Kraft Heinz, Viacom, Shake Shake and Yelp will be releasing quarterly results after the market close....
...Viacom, which also courted Scripps, is another potential buyer or seller, after calling off talks to recombine with CBS late last year. Univision, the US Spanish-language broadcaster, is in play....
...Related links: What Hertz tells us about the future of shared mobility – FT Alphaville Shared mobility V.1, USSR edition – FT Alphaville Do the economics of self-driving taxis actually make sense?...
...David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, said a decision on Snap was not imminent....
...(WaPo) Clinton v Trump: clash of the operatives David Brock and Roger Stone are masters of the dark arts of politics – 2016 will be their greatest canvas....
...The Dow Jones US media index is flat over the same period....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.9 per cent to 16,776.43, while the Nasdaq Composite Index gained 1.6 per cent to 4,781.26....
...Viacom shares fell 2.3 per cent to $51.16, News Corp shares declined 1.6 per cent to $14.37 and 21st Century Fox shares slid 1.2 per cent to $29.54....
....” ————————- Read more Meet the seven robots you need to know Robot writer v human journalist: see the face-off at the FT How has the robot economy triggered a global investment explosion?...
...Among their investors are Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, Google Capital, the National Hockey League and NFL owners Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones....
...The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 2.1 per cent to 16,990.69 while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 2.8 per cent to 4,877.49....
.... …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Ben Hall, world news editor, picks: • Isis Inc: how oil fuels jihadi terrorists by Erika Solomon, Guy Chazan and Sam Jones• Why China’s ‘migrant miracle’ is...
...The S&P 500 rose 0.3 per cent to 2,099.84, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.1 per cent to 17,540.47. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.7 per cent to 5,139.94....
...Consumer discretionary stocks led the decline on the S&P 500, falling 2 per cent, dragged lower by Viacom....
...The S&P 500 fell 0.2 per cent to 2,076.33, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was little changed at 17,875.42. The Nasdaq Composite shed 0.1 per cent to 4,910.23....
...This article has been amended since first publication to show correct figures for the chart labelled “Traditional v online TV”. Back to the top of the page...
...Viacom shares fell 6.7 per cent to $67.80, after analysts at Citi downgraded the stock to “sell” from “buy” and lowered their price target to $62 from $88 on concerns that Dish Networks would drop Viacom...
...This may complicate life for makers of driverless cars: because of legal uncertainties and hugely variable driving environments, “self-driving” is likely to be offered as an optional setting for decades...
...The board of David Jones on Wednesday recommended a A$4 a share offer by Woolworths to its shareholders – a 25 per cent premium on Tuesday’s closing price of $3.19....
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