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...Seeing the writing on the wall, Redstone has been negotiating a merger with Skydance, a Hollywood studio run by David Ellison — son of billionaire tech executive Larry — that has produced blockbusters such...
...Shari Redstone, the heiress of Sumner Redstone kind of sees in David somebody like her, and she kind of loves the idea of helping him and sees like he’s a young guy....
..., Paramount’s controlling shareholder, is unconvinced by an $11bn offer from Apollo for its Hollywood studio, people briefed on the matter said, and is instead negotiating a rival deal with billionaire David...
...Redstone in 2020 inherited control of the entertainment conglomerate that her late father, Sumner Redstone, built over the past century....
...Skydance, a production company founded and run by David Ellison, is in negotiations with media mogul Shari Redstone to acquire National Amusements (NAI), a privately held cinema company that controls 77...
...Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans (Torva/Henry Holt) Tony Hsieh turned Zappos, the Amazon-owned footwear etailer, into a case...
...Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans (Torva/Henry Holt) A story of the extraordinary business success of Tony Hsieh, whose quest...
...This year my hot ticket is Unscripted, about the battle for succession at Sumner Redstone’s media empire....
...Seafood is the speciality here (from Dover sole, £52 for 16oz, to lobster Thermidor, £35 for a half), but head chef David McCarthy also rustles up classics such as Bannockburn rib steak with Béarnaise sauce...
...These David-versus-Goliath tales have bred hope that the little guy has a fighting chance. But Icahn is no underdog holding a slingshot to the world’s largest fast-food chain....
...It is enough to rival Sumner Redstone, who tried to remain chairman of his media conglomerates, CBS and Viacom, when he could no longer speak....
...The tragedy might seem a prelude to a new start, writes David Gardner. A pity it won’t happen in Lebanon....
...In the case of Sumner Redstone, they may never have known the name, despite the influence the 95-year-old patriarch of CBS and Viacom once wielded over the content of film and television screens....
...Izzy Englander’s hedge fund Millennium Management has hired David Galica, a senior portfolio manager from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, as a fixed income portfolio manager in London, Bloomberg reported...
...(In the years when Sumner Redstone was still — just — compos mentis enough to be wheeled out for earnings calls he would croak that Mr Moonves was “a supergenius”.)...
...Latham & Watkins has hired David Beller as a partner in its corporate department based in New York. He joins from law firm Paul Weiss....
...David LaRue, Forest City chief executive, who initially cast a vote against the deal, ultimately flipped....
...Speaking of f—you, that is apparently the message Sinclair Broadcast Group’s chairman David Smith has for print media, which he believes “serves no real purpose” (we at the FT beg to differ — and anyway,...
...” – Scott Sumner: Two new picks for the Fed? – Hell is empty and all the hedge fund managers are at the Bellagio. – Did someone cancel the fintech revolution or has it just been delayed?...
...– Scott Sumner: “I am pleased to announce that a new Hypermind NGDP market is up and running.” – A bearish positive carry trade?...
...– Ryan Avent and Scott Sumner on the strong dollar question. – The US tax code actually doesn’t “soak the rick”....
...– Sumner: “The peculiar persistence of monetary policy denialism” – Exit, tweets and loyalty, or Hircshman in a Twitter age....
...In 2005 Sumner Redstone’s Viacom hired him to run Paramount Pictures, hoping that he would restore the studio behind The Godfather to glory....
...That growth has propelled its market value to $74bn, more than big media companies such as Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox or Sumner Redstone’s Viacom....
...- Scott Sumner on Romer and identification. - What happened to US migration in 2015? - Why the legacy of Trump will last either way: “That’s what populists do....
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