@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.socialA US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@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…
@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
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialThis is a very reasonable suggestion:
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney CEO Bob Iger officially passes the torch to incoming CEO Josh D'Amaro, who says Disney will evolve "to become the digital centerpiece of our company" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/bob-iger-…
@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
@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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-share…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWBD sets March 20 as the date for a special shareholder meeting to vote on the proposed $83B Netflix deal, which its board "continues to unanimously recommend" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/war
@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…
@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…
@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…
@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.socialMexican broadcaster TV Azteca, controlled by Ricardo Salinas Pliego, says shareholders approved a voluntary bankruptcy process to restructure company finances (Diego Ore/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/mexi…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWBD confirms that it received a revised bid from Paramount to acquire the company, but says it still recommends that shareholders vote for Netflix's deal (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@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
@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
