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MY TAKE: From AOL-Time Warner to OpenAI-Amazon — is the next tech bubble already inflating?
04 Nov 2025 06:52 GMT
… and Time Warner joined forces in a $164 billion deal — the largest merger … paper wealth vanished. The AOL-Time Warner merger unraveled. And tech entered a … 2000, when AOL’s mega-merger briefly crowned the dot-com …
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The Pending Disaster of a Skydance-Warners Merger
03 Nov 2025 10:23 GMT
… unwieldy 2018 merger between AT&T and Time Warner) merged with … lambasted the idea of this merger include Senators Elizabeth Warren … Since the 2022 WB-Discovery merger, Zaslav has been an … on from the organization’s Time Warner era, Zaslav has shelved …
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TOM GIOVANETTI: The Free-Market Case For A Hollywood Merger As Paramount Fights Big Tech
01 Nov 2025 17:24 GMT
… can sometimes be skeptical of mergers and consolidations, because they don … don’t. Infamously. The AOL Time Warner merger did not work, and it …
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Economic Analysis of Merger Remedies
31 Oct 2025 10:55 GMT
… to compete pre-merger and post-merger, while allowing … parties.55
Vertical mergers
Although vertical mergers accounted for … that of horizontal mergers. Unlike horizontal mergers, which involve firms … AT&T/Time Warner merger is another example – the …
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Warner Bros. mergers never work, but they’re trying again anyway
28 Oct 2025 18:28 GMT
… Bros.‘ long history of mergers and acquisitions, it is … Online (AOL), which bought Time Warner Entertainment for around $182 … ’s insistence that the merger would reduce competition, AT … be concerned about vertical mergers (mergers between companies that are …
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As WBD Merger Drama Swirls, Media Giant Sets Date Of Discovery Global 2026 Upfront Presentation
27 Oct 2025 16:07 GMT
… that same timeframe since the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery in … the setup from WarnerMedia and Time Warner in prior eras. The upfronts …
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Very Innovative: Here Come Thousands In CBS Paramount Merger Layoffs
24 Oct 2025 16:00 GMT
… the same trajectory. Pre-merger, executives promise all … rates for consumers. The Time Warner Discovery disaster was the … for harmful, pointless mergers had to at least … enshittification, journalism, layoffs, media, mergers, prices, trump
Companies: cbs, …
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Writers Guild: Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Would Be a ‘Disaster’
24 Oct 2025 05:53 GMT
… be a “disaster.”
“Merger after merger in the media industry has … -competitive practices that followed mergers and acquisitions like Disney’ … 85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger and then the $43 … billion WarnerMedia Discovery merger—have each
promised to …
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Warner Brothers Is For Sale (Again): Prepare For More Pointless, Disastrous Media Mergers
23 Oct 2025 19:15 GMT
… AT&T–>Time Warner–>Discovery mergers simply because I … Ever since the original AOL Time Warner merger back in 2001, an endless … it all over again.
Time Warner has formally announced that it … of Time Warner Discovery and AT&T’s mergers under …
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WGA Says Warner Bros. Merger Would Be a ‘Disaster’ for Writers
24 Oct 2025 00:29 GMT
… buyers in the marketplace.
“Merger after merger in the media industry … record of opposition to industry mergers. It opposed the failed … union sought to block the merger of Comcast and NBCUniversal, … the AT&T merger with Time Warner, which was announced in …