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...Dave Calhoun, chief executive, is due to meet lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, including Senator Mark Warner from Virginia, where the company is headquartered....
...The film also features performances by Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck, who are reprising their roles as Batman....
...“The algorithms that determine what you see on TikTok [are] determined out of Beijing by China,” Mark Warner, the Democratic chair of the Senate intelligence committee, said in February....
...Netflix’s stumble has set off a sell-off across media stocks, wiping tens of billions in value from giants such as Disney and Warner Bros....
...“Tech firms taking steps to stop promoting RT or Sputnik are laudable as part of their larger strategy to stop promoting conspiratorial content,” said Ben Dubow, founder of Omelas....
...And to put a bunny tail on it, Playboy Enterprises chief executive Ben Kohn said yesterday he had chosen to go public through a Spac because of its “efficiency” versus a traditional initial public offering...
...Ben Elliot,pictured below, right, an old Etonian with links to the British royal family, has made a business out of it as co-founder of Quintessentially, a luxury (obviously) concierge service....
...Another five Democratic senators who supported the Crapo bill also appear in the top 20: Claire McCaskill (Missouri), Tim Kaine (Virginia), Jon Tester (Montana), Doug Jones (Alabama) and Mark Warner (Virginia...
...Senator Mark Warner, the Democratic vice-chair of the committee, warned: “The era of the wild west in social media is coming to an end”....
...Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed, criticised the seizure of Ms Watkins’ records....
...“We’d all like to think it’s just a bunch of kids sitting in a garage . . . but obviously the sophistication has gone up massively in the last couple of years....
...Throughout the the tumult, the labels have clung on to their back catalogs and, as Ben Thompson has noted, this puts them in a position of real strength in the streaming age....
...Time Warner reported higher revenue and profit last year, with additional help from increases at Turner, the home of CNN and TBS, and Warner Bros, where film hits including Wonder Woman and Dunkirk contributed...
...AT&T, which is pushing for government approval of its takeover of Time Warner, said it would pay 200,000 US employees $1,000 each, while increasing its budget for capital spending in the US next year by...
...It now produces a nightly show for HBO, the Time Warner-owned premium cable channel, as well as a magazine series, and also has programming deals with several international broadcasters....
...Democratic Senator Mark Warner, a former technology executive and vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called the case “profoundly troubling”....
...“Can we really compete with three guys in a garage? No, we cannot and, honestly, we shouldn’t try....
...Last year it acquired a controlling stake in Garage Magazine, an art and culture publication founded by Dasha Zhukova, the wife of Russian billionaire and Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich....
...The clearest proposal of how Congress might regulate Facebook comes from two Democratic senators, Mark Warner, vice-chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, and Amy Klobuchar....
...“That the most early-stage interesting stuff, the stuff happening in garages, could get sort of infiltrated with Chinese money.”...
...Mr Trump’s victory could be bad news for AT&T’s proposed $85.4bn takeover of Time Warner....
...Executives last year discussed a bid for Time Warner, the owner of HBO and CNN, the Financial Times has reported....
...Ben Smith, BuzzFeed News editor in chief, said the feature aims to expose readers to conversations they might otherwise miss....
...A New York court this year heard evidence that works which together sold for more than $80m were made by a Chinese painter in a garage in Queens and sold to wealthy collectors through the gallery....
...him $76,000 in trading profits, Mr Pusey made cash payments totalling thousands of dollars to Mr McClatchey by occasionally placing cash in a gym bag or handing over the cash directly in Mr McClatchey’s garage...
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