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...“No amount of research would’ve come up with pairing Bo Diddley and Bo Jackson in a commercial,” Riswold told me....
...Reed Hastings, who stepped down as Netflix chief executive on Thursday, co-founded a company that has became the byword for a tech revolution in the entertainment business....
...Additional reporting by Alex Barker, Patricia Nilsson and Eleanor Olcott in London...
...“The key for me is not that you have to spend more and more money,” said Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-chief executive, last month....
Journalist moves within Murdoch group from editor of Sunday Times in London to New York role
Companies walk away from book megamerger after a US judge deemed it anti-competitive
...Barker of Equimundo sees the emphasis on physical strength as “double-edged”....
...Reed Hastings, Netflix’s co-founder, still spoke of his “bullish” confidence in the model, even as he unveiled a second straight quarter of subscriber losses....
...Co-chief executive Ted Sarandos once said it was based on “70 per cent gut and 30 per cent data. Most of it is informed hunches and intuition.”...
...Axel Springer, the German publishing group backed by private equity firm KKR, bought Politico, which was also co-founded by VandeHei, for about $1bn a year ago....
...Christie’s is not holding back on the superlatives for its guaranteed, charitable auction of the “collection of incomparable magnitude” from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who died in 2018....
...Greg Jensen, co-chief investment officer, said: “We’re in a radically different world.”...
...Jez Nelson, the founder and chief executive, and Steve Ackerman, chief content officer at the production company, will become co-heads of global podcasts for Sony, with the two men running the UK and US...
...The film features Tucker Carlson, the genial-looking TV host with a dyspeptic streak who underwent a conversion from bow-tie-wearing prep into rightwing barker in the Trump era....
...Project Columbus After their New York meeting, the executives hired boutique investment banks LionTree and Allen & Co to advise AT&T and Discovery, respectively....
...Allen & Co and JPMorgan were the financial advisers to Discovery and Debevoise & Plimpton was its legal adviser....
...“A lot of the projects we had hoped to come out earlier did get pushed because of the production delays,” said Ted Sarandos, co-chief executive, who promised investors the company would get back to a “steadier...
Shares in ViacomCBS, Discovery and Disney have all soared over the past year
...Comcast-owned Sky has recently ramped-up its spending on original content, including through a co-production deal with HBO....
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...Additional reporting by Alex Barker...
Penguin Random House owner insists it is ‘very confident’ of approval from antitrust regulators
...If they were able to shut out competitors, or co-ordinate bids in mid-level auctions, this might eventually lead to less choice and less competition....
Publisher raises antitrust concerns over German media group prevailing in battle for Simon & Schuster
...Their pipeline is dependent on it,” said Adam Barker, healthcare equity analyst at Shore Capital. In contrast: “AstraZeneca is not a vaccine player at all....
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