ANGELE B. MERCHO

Everton FC bidder 777 calls in restructuring experts

...The advisory services company, which is part of Los Angeles-based B Riley Financial, does restructuring and turnaround work, forensic accounting and litigation support, and valuations....

May 10, 2024

Artificial intelligence

Generative AI start-up Cohere in talks for $250mn in fresh funding

...Tiger Global, the technology-focused investment fund that led Cohere’s $125mn series B round last year, is not participating in the current round....

May 2, 2023

FT Live

Investing in America

Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness

Paramount Global

Sony and Apollo approach Paramount Global with $26bn bid outline

...Paramount’s non-voting class B shares jumped to close 13.1 per cent higher at $13.86 on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal first reported that Sony and Apollo had sent a non-binding expression of interest...

May 2, 2024

Paramount Global

Skydance sweetens Paramount bid as Bakish departs

...Paramount’s Class B common shares have a current market capitalisation of about $7bn. Paramount has a dual-class shareholding structure....

April 30, 2024

US politics & policy

California primary race reveals splits among Democrats

...Schiff is a former prosecutor from Los Angeles who long occupied the centre, but has moved left along with his party....

March 4, 2024

US society

‘This is like a crucible’: spectre of 1968 looms over US campus protests

...Yet the year 1968 — when an unpopular foreign war ignited American campuses, creating a sense of disorder that upended the Democratic National Convention and doomed Lyndon B Johnson, the then president —...

May 9, 2024

FT Live

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Where leaders in investment and finance meet

Letter

Letter: How education already has characteristics of AI

...Christopher B CooperProfessor Emeritus of Medicine and Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, US...

October 2, 2023

News in-depthParamount Global

Redstone and Ellison plot complex finale to Paramount family drama

...The largest holder of Paramount’s B shares is Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which in 2022 disclosed a stake of about 75mn shares at $28 per share — almost twice the share price today....

February 2, 2024

US equities

From Mongolian football to the ‘Pasta Prince of LA’

...“We intend to buy teams, like a Serie B team, and have the unlocking of value occur for two reasons: one would be eventual advancement and perhaps promotion . . . and two, just getting them inside a public...

March 8, 2024

Media

Cinemas hope for ‘Barbenheimer’ box office boom

...B&B Theatres, a cinema chain, is selling a bourbon cocktail tied to Oppenheimer called The Bomb and a Barbie-themed tequila drink called Think Pink, among other offerings....

July 21, 2023

Special ReportWomen in Business

Skims co-founder Emma Grede: ‘I’m trying to create a pathway for people like me’

...With Good American — which is B-Corp certified, meaning it has verified commitments to environmental and social aims — Grede wanted to create jeans for a large range of body shapes....

March 8, 2024

HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more

Why everyone wants to dance with Léo Walk

...To walk, walk…” Many years later, Walk – as everyone now knows him – has toured with singers Christine and the Queens and Angèle, staged shows for Jacquemus and Agnès B and starred in a campaign for Louis...

February 23, 2024

News in-depthHollywood

Lights, camera, industrial action: Hollywood’s biggest strike in 60 years

...“I think that the public sees through the B.S. when a multimillionaire is saying something like that.”...

July 16, 2023

The Week Ahead

Taiwan goes to the polls

...Speakers include the capital’s mayor Sadiq Khan and lord mayor Michael Mainelli US: Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, is due to make his initial court appearance on tax charges in Los Angeles, where...

January 7, 2024

Style

How Dara is rethinking fashion’s rules

...She was heading to the airport for a flight to Los Angeles, to style actor Hunter Schafer for the Vanity Fair party after the Oscars....

March 27, 2024

FT Live

Business of Entertainment Summit

Capitalizing on Disruption

News in-depthRetail & Consumer industry

Pinault empire makes California return with A-list agency acquisition

...The last time a Pinault ventured to Los Angeles, it did not end well....

September 8, 2023

Watches & Jewellery

Designer democracy acts as draw for Dover Street Market

...There are outposts in New York, Singapore, Los Angeles, Beijing and Tokyo....

November 17, 2023

LVMH

Beverly Hills voters reject LVMH luxury hotel on Rodeo Drive

...the final vote count confirms the voters’ rejection of our project, we will respect the outcome, and will not bring the hotel project back in any form,” said a statement released by the group, the Yes on B&...

May 27, 2023

The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2023

Best pop albums of 2023 — Chemical Brothers, Lana Del Rey and the dance-floor revival

...It’s a well-worn message, but the Los Angeles-based singer brings it to life with a flourish. The main style is soulful R&B, classily orchestrated and sung in a style reminiscent of Mariah Carey....

December 13, 2023

ObituaryClarence Avant

Clarence Avant, music executive, 1931-2023

...Avant Garde Broadcasting, which ran Los Angeles radio station KAGB-FM, went bankrupt later that year....

August 19, 2023

Berkshire after Buffett

Berkshire after Buffett: is Greg Abel up to the top job?

...Ron Olson, a Berkshire board director and one of the group’s main lawyers from Los Angeles-based firm Munger Tolles & Olson, said that Abel’s handling of the Pilot lawsuit, which they worked on closely together...

May 4, 2024

Andy Haldane

AI could consign educational traumas to history

...of California, Los Angeles, CA, US...

September 20, 2023

News in-depthDiageo PLC

Diageo vs Diddy spat exposes risks of celebrity deals

...“It might be a wake-up call for Diageo to come up with a plan B . . . beyond celebrity culture.”...

August 4, 2023

Media

Brad Pitt puts Plan B in motion with sale to French media group

...Neither Plan B nor Mediawan would disclose details of the transaction....

December 9, 2022

ReviewFilm

Barbie film review — Greta Gerwig’s day-glo comedy gives Mattel the last laugh

...For Ken, Los Angeles is a joyful revelation, as Gerwig asks: No, but seriously, what would a Ken doll learn from the lingering whiff of patriarchy?...

July 18, 2023

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