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...Analysts have also warned over high debts and tough trading conditions at Paramount. Cohen said they had looked before at studio businesses but the prices being asked were too high....
...(YouTube/The New York Times)...
...They have the largest buyside, and they are, of course, one of the largest sellers of inventory in the market, vis-à-vis Google Search and YouTube....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...In 1994 he added Paramount Pictures to Viacom, defeating Barry Diller, a former chairman of the film studio, in a drawn-out bidding battle....
...But looking at the bigger picture, she argues that Nike’s direct-sales strategy is at odds with how it markets itself as a champion of inclusiveness....
...sand on a beach next to her avatar, who was dressed in a black V-neck and a very short skirt....
...The question now is, who is ready to sell: Sony Pictures Entertainment has long been viewed as a target, but its parent company in Japan has resisted it....
...We’ll let this picture of Goldman’s triple threat from a few years back do the talking....
...He also takes care of Nagar’s international deals, which included a “collaboration” with Paramount Pictures to promote the last edition of the Mission: Impossible film series starring Tom Cruise....
...The screen is 6.3in, the front “selfie” camera is a whopping 25 megapixels, HDR and “Nightshade” technology improve picture quality and there is VOOC flash charging....
...He declared his intention to run in this interview, with pictures by renowned portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz. (FT, Vanity Fair) Third time lucky?...
...If you are still tempted by spherical photography, I do recommend the Ricoh Theta V....
...Now, finally, most of the major Hollywood studios have jumped on board, though Paramount Pictures and Lionsgate remain holdouts. On the tech side, Apple, Google, Amazon and Roku are all supporting it....
...But she escaped what she later described as the “straitjacket” of news by making the unexpected switch to daytime TV for the corporation....
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...Safety is paramount: if Google Photos’ facial recognition system fails to correctly identify a person in a picture, it is inconvenient; if a Waymo vehicle does not spot a pedestrian, it could be fatal....
...“It’s not that the streaming services are going to put the incumbents out of business,” says Barry Diller, who ran Paramount Pictures in the 1970s and these days controls a digital empire that includes Expedia...
...Shareholders at Viacom are keen for a combination and relief from a tumbling share price, shrinking audiences at its cable channels and flop movies from the company’s Paramount Pictures....
...But after months of discussions, the companies were unable to agree on a valuation for Viacom, owner of Paramount Pictures and MTV....
...The billionaire media mogul has set the stage for a bitter fight over CBS and Viacom, owner of MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures, by removing two long-time friends and lieutenants from the board...
...The EU and Google are locked in a fight over what can and cannot be uploaded to YouTube....
...All of the big US broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — are expecting a better picture this year than in 2015, when advertisers held back more of their upfront spending....
...YouTube and other digital providers are working on similar services....
...And yet, he says, technocrats like Ms Lagarde still miss the bigger picture by continuing to push for trade agreements and ever more open economies despite the protests....
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