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...It also brings to mind the surreal lyrical hooks of another north-western star, New Order’s Bernard Sumner. At times, this music is unabashedly whimsical; it’s also undeniably moving....
...Other media moguls, from William Randolph Hearst to Viacom’s Sumner Redstone, fought against the dying of their influence over rivals, readers and viewers....
...Beijing Rules: China’s Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen (John Murray/Harper) An eye-opening chronicle of the multiple ways in which China’s Communist party seeks to exert its power abroad....
...Should the board of Peloton have challenged John Foley, the flamboyant founder of the company earlier and harder, before he resigned as executive chairman last September?...
...The FT’s John Gapper called it “an amusing story of New York ambition and hubris”, but with “deeper social significance”....
...Perhaps they were giving because of what the economist James Andreoni calls the “warm glow”, and John List, another economist, terms “impure altruism”....
...Libertarian “Cable Cowboy” John Malone is coming for CNN....
...Born Sumner Murray Rothstein in Boston on May 27 1923, he was 17 when his father changed the family’s surname....
...The latter echoes how John Malone, the cable billionaire, built a stake in his longtime rival Murdoch’s News Corp, a move that led the latter to sell DirectTV and adopt a poison pill....
...Sumner grew up in a Boston tenement and, through a series of deals and sheer tenacity, transformed his father’s small drive-in cinema chain into a global Hollywood empire....
...When Sumner Redstone passed away, ViacomCBS, the media empire he carefully curated, had an enterprise value of roughly $40bn....
...Malone strikes in SwitzerlandCable mogul John Malone’s Liberty Global is buying Swiss mobile group Sunrise for SFr6.8bn ($7.4bn) including debt in a landmark tie-up for the country’s telecoms sector....
...When billionaire Sumner Redstone decided to split Viacom and CBS in 2006, Netflix was a DVD-by-mail business....
...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....
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...So does Bad Blood, John Carreyrou’s tale of the rise and fall of Theranos, the blood-testing firm founded by Elizabeth Holmes....
...Sidley Austin, a law firm, has hired John Butler as a partner in New York. He joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell. Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a law firm, has hired Hendrik Röhricht as a corporate partner....
...As a classic illustration they cite Viacom’s Sumner Redstone, the media baron who unquestionably was a wizard in his day, but who at a frail 94 has been called a living ghost....
...The spectacle, writes John Gapper in his column, is not especially edifying....
...John Williams has been appointed president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York....
...The company’s management has fiercely resisted the push by Shari and Sumner Redstone to combine CBS and its former sister entertainment group, Viacom....
...“We expect the commentary on domestic affiliate fee to ultimately be the driver of the stock,” said John Janedis, an analyst at Jefferies....
...CBS and its sister company, Viacom, are controlled by Sumner Redstone and his daughter, Shari....
...Conceived by visionary thinkers including the American Sumner Welles and the Polish-British jurist Hersch Lauterpacht, this was enshrined by the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of...
...In 2005 Sumner Redstone’s Viacom hired him to run Paramount Pictures, hoping that he would restore the studio behind The Godfather to glory....
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