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...Redstone was given the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s humanitarian award last year. Others, however, point to pressures on NAI as a factor behind her exploration of a sale....
...Paramount, which is controlled by Shari Redstone, this year agreed to sell the Simon & Schuster book publisher to KKR....
...The result was an empire ranging from MTV to SpongeBob SquarePants, Simon & Schuster books to CBS News, Mission Impossible to Survivor....
...Simon Schama FT contributing editor I don’t understand why the British-Palestinian writer Isabella Hammad’s work isn’t more loudly celebrated....
...After serving in the military in the 1940s, Redstone studied tax law at Harvard and used that training to mastermind acquisitions, engineering deals for Viacom, Paramount Pictures, Blockbuster, CBS and Simon...
...Her father had used his tax law training to mastermind acquisitions, with deals for Viacom, Paramount Pictures, CBS and Simon & Schuster during his reign....
...Separately, it has appointed Simon Ives as its chairman....
...Simon Mundy in Mumbai reports that Apple sees cheap iPhones as a way of growing its installed base in the hope of later upgrading Indian consumers to its high-end phones....
...Sharis Pozen, acting assistant attorney-general, said that “our investigation is still active and ongoing”. Furukawa Electric agreed last September to pay a $200m fine in the car parts probe....
...Sharis Pozen, acting assistant attorney-general, said that as a result, carmakers had “paid non-competitive and higher prices for parts in cars sold to US consumers”....
...impossible to conceive of Viacom without Mr Redstone, who famously built the family-owned cinema chain into a powerhouse that includes the MTV cable networks, Paramount film studio, CBS broadcasting group and Simon...
...The board also promoted Shari Redstone to vice-chairman, putting her in line to succeed her father, Sumner, as chairman....
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