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...His time in government also taught him how to handle external affairs and communications, which he oversees at Robinhood....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...Quick reminder that Dumb and Dumber (AT&T and Verizon) and Big Cable (Comcast and Charter Communications) won’t need to worry about Legere. He’s got one foot out of the door....
...A deal with Sprint may offer Charter and Comcast more favourable terms on wireless services than they already receive through a tie-up with Verizon Communications....
...Mr Malone, whose Liberty Media controls SiriusXM, has never shied away from complexity when financing his sprawling media empire, whose holdings include Virgin Media, Formula One, ITV and Charter Communications...
...On Monday, Discovery Communications — whose namesake channel hosts the annual Shark Week extravaganza — unveiled a $14.6bn takeover of Scripps Networks Interactive (press release here)....
...It represented a “significant departure from the proposals of the past”, in a reference to the communications data bill, a controversial initiative dubbed the “snooper’s charter” which was ditched during...
...John Malone, the so-called “Cable Cowboy” and US billionaire behind Charter Communications and Liberty Global, beat Mr Drahi in May in a $78.7bn battle for Time Warner Cable....
...Shares of Time Warner Cable led the benchmark S&P 500, after Charter Communications agreed to buy the company in a $57bn deal that is subject to regulatory approval....
...Among the major movers on Tuesday, Charter Communications rose 5 per cent to $193.11 after it struck a deal to buy US cable company Bright House Networks for $10.4bn....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...The S&P 500 fell 0.5 per cent to 1,969.95 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.4 per cent to 16,912.11. The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.1 per cent to 4,442.70....
...Investors will now be able to invest in Liberty Broadband Group, which will hold the company’s interest in Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable, as well as Liberty Media....
...The Nasdaq Composite index slipped 0.1 per cent to 3,165.13 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 0.3 per cent to 13,944.05....
...Charter Communications rose 8.8 per cent to $98.04 on talk that John Malone’s Liberty Media is planning to take a 25 per cent stake in the cable TV operator....
...In the most recent series of developments, BarCap, Merrill, Morgan and Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc filed suit against the site in March....
...In the latest development in the saga of investment banks v munis in re derivatives, a judge ruled on Thursday that a dozen financial institutions will have to defend themselves against allegations of bid...
...A federal appeals court has bopped the Federal Communications Commission yet again. In Comcast v. FCC – the “network neutrality” case – the agency was found to be making up the law as it went....
...District Court in Boston found that David Donovan engaged in insider trading in Covad Communications Group Inc by giving his mother tips about nonpublic information about the company, the Securities and...
...Jones celebrates the end of “top-down political communication as traditionally established by elite gatekeepers (journalists, politicians, experts)”....
...The case, Gallus et al. v....
...(Hill v. Heritage Resources, Inc., 964 S.W.2d 89 (Tex.App. 1997)) Related links Clear Channel deal in tatters – FT Lex: LBO at a crossroads – FT...
...The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average snapped their four-day winning streak. The Dow closed 1 per cent lower at 12,582.18, while the S&P fell 0.6 per cent to 1,367.69....
...Certainly, the facts of the case were unsavoury: Charter Communications, a cable company, persuaded Scientific-Atlanta and another supplier to participate in sham transactions so Charter could deceive its...
...The lawsuit accuses Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta, makers of cable television set-top boxes, of violating federal securities laws by engaging in sham transactions to help Charter Communications, a cable...
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