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...Other media moguls, from William Randolph Hearst to Viacom’s Sumner Redstone, fought against the dying of their influence over rivals, readers and viewers....
...Deutsche Bank has appointed Michael Hufton to be co-head of its infrastructure and utilities unit for the Asia-Pacific region, according to Bloomberg....
...Can he work the same magic for Shari Redstone, Puck asks....
...Shari Redstone, Paramount’s billionaire controlling shareholder, has effectively put the company on the block in recent weeks....
...Letter in response to this article: German pension funds prefer the old reliables / From Michael Ledzion, Cambridge, UK...
...Working with Michael Bhaskar, Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, now part of Google, warns of the dangers of sleepwalking into catastrophe....
...In 1987 he bought the media group Viacom for $3.4bn, patching together a bid through financing from Michael Milken, the junk bond king, and triumphing over a rival offer from the company’s management....
...With financing arranged by Michael Milken, the junk bond king who would become a firm friend, Redstone triumphed over a rival offer from the company’s management....
...Belarus reveals the EU’s reluctance to confront autocrats, Michael Peel writes....
...“Despite what Shari accomplishes near-term by getting these two companies back together, her family’s name will not be associated with excellence in shareholder returns,” warned Michael Nathanson, senior...
...Who is Michael Ovitz?...
...To snag an early job at Disney, he drew a cartoon strip inspired by Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, in which he leapt out of an envelope on to chief executive Michael Eisner’s desk....
...(FT) News round-up Shari Redstone explores plan to launch Fox News competitor (Hollywood Reporter) Blackstone REIT to buy Bellagio from MGM Resorts for $4.25bn (Reuters) Thomas Cook chief says lack of...
...Michael Nathanson, analyst at MoffettNathanson, also said investors expected the new CBS board and chief executive “to ultimately bend to the will of National Amusement and combine Viacom and CBS”....
...Michael Nathanson, an analyst at MoffettNathanson who follows the two companies, said that a merger between CBS and Viacom in 2019 was now a “foregone conclusion”....
...Here’s our profile of Shari Redstone (pictured below), the scion of a $30bn entertainment empire....
...Michael McGhee, who leads the US Army’s Office of Energy Initiatives, told the Financial Times that installing solar panels at army bases could improve resilience against attacks or natural disasters, and...
...“In terms of reality, those [numbers] don’t matter much right now,” said Michael Nathanson, analyst at MoffettNathanson....
...Michael Johnson, executive chairman and former chief executive, is to replace Mr Goudis on an interim basis....
...autobiography Who Is Michael Ovitz?...
...Law firm Latham & Watkins has hired Michael Haas as a partner from Jones Day. Haas will serve as the global co-chair of the firm’s real estate practice....
...He joins from Morgan Stanley, alongside his colleague Michael Johnson, who will become vice-chairman of investment banking at the US bank....
...Smart Reads Michael Cohen and legalised bribery Trump's personal lawyer continues to attract heavy attention. Go deeper on how he pitched global multinationals to sign up for his lobbying services....
...She plays Ambrosia, a law-abiding middle-class black girl who has just started college in St Louis when Michael Brown is shot dead by police in neighbouring Ferguson....
...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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