@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: ~90% of Groq employees will join Nvidia and be paid cash for all vested shares; most shareholders will get per-share payouts tied to the $20B valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/28/nvidia-groq-shareholders
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialOmnicom's acquisition of Interpublic Group formally closes; the all-stock deal gives Omnicom shareholders 60.6% of the company and IPG shareholders 39.4% (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/omnicom-ipg-deal
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI; SoftBank is already one of OpenAI's largest shareholders after investing $22.5B in December (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/so…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialScripps adopts a poison pill shareholder rights plan to thwart an unsolicited takeover bid by Sinclair and ensure shareholders "receive appropriate value" (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.im“I’d try to help any president of the US because I’m a patriot,”
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon told shareholders.
Even Vanity Fair commented on Dimon’s “unbridled optimism”
despite the new president’s growing list of gaffes.
A decade on, the pair’s relationship has hit rock bottom.
Trump on Thursday took aim at his one-time ally, launching a $5bn (£3.7bn) lawsuit against JP Morgan and Dimon
over claims the bank had unfairly closed his accounts for political re…
@profcarroll@federate.socialMark Zuckerberg and other executives will pay $190M to the company in a settlement with shareholders who brought suit to recover damages from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal that reverberated out of Trump’s first term. Ensures that he, Sandberg, Andressen, Thiel, et al shielded from deposition, trial. https://<…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: Paramount extends the deadline for WBD shareholders to vote on its $30-per-share offer to February 20 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/paramount-extends-deadline-warner-bros-discovery-netflix-1236692082/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGrindr ends talks on a $3.46B take-private deal by shareholders Ray Zage and James Lu, who own 60% of Grindr, citing uncertainty over the deal's financing (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/grindr-special-commi…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyElon Musk's $1 trillion Tesla pay plan wins shareholder approval -
That's paying Musk 9 times the total turnover of Tesla in 2024 (which was 1% higher than that in 2023). Sounds a bit over the top. It's also more than $100 for every person on earth. The combined result of the greediness of Musk and the craziness of Tesla's shareholders.
@markhburton@mstdn.socialAs I've noted before, the hit to US capital, from Venezuela gaining control of its oil, long preceded the Chšvez-Maduro years.
Graph shows share of Venezuelan GDP going to USA shareholders from late 1950s to mid 80s. Then slow increase til Chšvez govt at turn of century. Then increase under Maduro.
Entender la intervención estadounidense en Venezuela | ctxt.es
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSource: Paramount has no immediate plans to sweeten its $30/share, all-cash bid for WBD (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/16/media/why-warner-bros-discovery-shareholders-shouldnt-count-on-a-holiday…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… everyone is talking about shareholders but no one is talking about sharebutterfingers
@buercher@tooting.chWarner Bros. Discovery Board of Directors Unanimously Recommends Shareholders Reject Paramount Tender Offer
The terms of the Netflix merger are superior. The PSKY offer provides inadequate value and imposes numerous, significant risks and costs on WBD.
PSKY has consistently misled WBD shareholders that its proposed transaction has a "full backstop" from the Ellison family. It does not, and never has
https://ir.wbd.com/news-and-events/financial-news/financial-news-details/2025/Warner-Bros--Discovery-Board-of-Directors-Unanimously-Recommends-Shareholders-Reject-Paramount-Tender-Offer/default.aspx
@theodric@social.linux.pizza"...and I said 'it sounds like you're just giving iPhones to phone thieves with more steps' and the shareholders started cheering..."
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWBD says the Ellisons have "consistently misled" shareholders, including claiming Paramount's proposal had a "full backstop" but it "does not, and never has" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/busines
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWBD recommends shareholders reject Paramount's unsolicited cash bid, calling the offer "illusory" and saying it believes Netflix's proposal is still superior (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: WBD is preparing to tell its shareholders to reject Paramount's latest offer and plans to recommend they support the existing deal with Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/warner-preparing-t…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust the fintech's Chair Gary Hoffman after the surprise departure of CEO TS Anil (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1487940f-03ed-40b9-a19e-da1b657ff37a
@cdarwin@c.imThis is more Communist than anything Xi or Putin does or says
Trump:
All United State Defense Contractors, and the Defense Industry as a whole, BEWARE:
Defense Contractors are currently issuing massive Dividends to their Shareholders and massive Stock Buybacks, at the expense ano detriment of investing in Plants and Equipment.
This situation will no longer be allowed or tolerated!
Until they do so,
no Executive should be allowed to make in excess of $5 M…
@buercher@tooting.chPharmaceutical companies are spending a smaller share of their revenues on research, for innovations that are often judged less innovative by experts, while paying more out to investors. In 2024, the US pharma giant Pfizer spent just 18% of its revenue on internal research and development – while 27% went to shareholders through dividends and debt repayment.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/24/is-trump-lowering-drug-prices?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA profile of Gerry Cardinale, head of RedBird, Paramount's second-largest shareholder, as he lobbies regulators and shareholders to accept Paramount's WBD bid (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/para…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump Media, owner of Truth Social, plans to distribute a new token to shareholders with partner Crypto.com, expected to operate on the Cronos blockchain (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-31/tr…
@buercher@tooting.chAmericans are not paying high prices so that European, Canadian, South Korean and Japanese citizens can enjoy cheap medicines. They are paying high prices because pharmaceutical companies charge what they can get away with.
Other countries’ patients and their governments do pay less than Americans, but they hardly get medicines for free. Prices for new drugs are high and rising everywhere. The real winners are the shareholders of multinational pharmaceutical companies.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/24/is-trump-lowering-drug-prices?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWBD recommends shareholders reject Paramount's unsolicited cash bid, calling the offer "illusory" and saying it believes Netflix's proposal is still superior (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialParamount reaffirms its $30/share all-cash bid after WBD's board officially rejected it, saying its bid offers "superior value and certainty" for shareholders (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/par
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpeaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla will likely need to build "a gigantic chip fab" for AI chips and "maybe, we'll do something with Intel" (Sayantani Ghosh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aut…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialParamount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30 per share in an all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTesla shareholders approve a $1T pay package for Elon Musk if he hits a series of milestones and expands Tesla's market cap to $8.5T over the next 10 years (Becky Peterson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-mu…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn a letter to WBD shareholders, David Ellison says Paramount filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court seeking information in its hostile takeover attempt (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/paramount-skydance-warner-bros-discovery-su…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCore Scientific shareholders vote to reject a $9B takeover bid by CoreWeave that proxy advisers said undervalued the data center company (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/core-scientific-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialParamount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30 per share in an all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: if Netflix wins the auction for WBD, Paramount plans to go directly to WBD shareholders to argue that Netflix's bid would face regulatory issues (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/02/media/pa
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Comcast is looking to merge NBCUniversal, including NBC TV, studios, and theme parks, with WBD, whose shareholders would get cash and stock (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/comcast-s-bid…
