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Bertelsmann wins battle for Simon & Schuster with $2.18bn deal
- Media & Marketing
- November 25, 2020, 15:40
Bertelsmann has agreed to buy Simon & Schuster for almost $2.2 billion (€1.85 billion), with the owner of Penguin Random House insisting it is “ve(...)

Shari Redstone readies ViacomCBS streaming rebrand
- Media & Marketing
- August 14, 2020, 13:05
ViacomCBS is considering a plan to rebrand its streaming services as Paramount+, as Shari Redstone tries to revive her family’s media empire with a mo(...)

It was business, it was personal: the Redstones’ father-daughter feud
- Media & Marketing
- August 13, 2020, 10:36
In more than 50 years as a force in the media industry, Sumner Redstone clashed with his only son, his nephew, his wife, his romantic partners, his bu(...)

Viacom and CBS mogul Sumner Redstone dies aged 97
- Media & Marketing
- August 12, 2020, 17:17
Sumner Redstone, one of a generation of media titans who shaped today’s business of films and television, has died aged 97. Redstone, a Boston native(...)

Your business week: Halo Business Angel Network, SFA Business Connect 2020
- Business
- January 31, 2020, 16:41
Monday, February 3rd Results: Ryanair, Alphabet, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Viacom. Indicators: Euro zone manufacturing PMI (Jan); UK manufacturing PMI(...)

Iseq lags behind its peers as European mood rises on trade deal hopes
- Markets
- November 12, 2019, 19:38
European shares climbed higher on Tuesday as positive German investor sentiment data and a slew of positive earnings lifted the mood, but Spanish stoc(...)

The business of family feuds
- Work
- August 30, 2019, 05:44
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Tolstoy’s opening lines to Anna Karenina apply equally to family busine(...)

Recession doom, ‘first in line’ Brexit Britain and the ‘most powerful woman in media’
- Economy
- August 16, 2019, 05:45
Image of the week: Joining the queue US national security adviser John Bolton, as a veteran government official and ex-diplomat, isn’t especially ren(...)

CBS and Viacom reach agreement in principle on merger
- Media & Marketing
- August 13, 2019, 14:33
CBS and Viacom have reached an agreement in principle, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, reuniting media mogul Sumner Redstone’s US en(...)

Stocks decline over trade and growth concerns
- Markets
- August 12, 2019, 20:19
European shares fell on Monday, with banks leading the decline, as worries that the protracted US-China trade war could push the global economy into r(...)