(Reuters) -A deal between Paramount Global and Skydance Media could see the media conglomerate acquire the independent studio in an all-stock transaction valued at around $5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Under the terms being discussed, National Amusements, which controls Paramount, would receive over $2 billion in cash in the first step…
By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Apple urged a U.S. appeals court on Friday to overturn a U.S. trade tribunal’s decision to ban imports of some Apple Watches in a patent dispute with medical-monitoring technology company Masimo. Apple told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that the U.S. International Trade Commission’s decision was…
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump suffered a pair of legal setbacks on Thursday as judges spurned his calls to dismiss criminal charges over the former U.S. president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 loss in Georgia and his keeping classified records after leaving office. Separately, one of the Republican presidential candidate’s allies, former Justice…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Alaska Air Group said on Thursday that Boeing had paid about $160 million to the airline in the first quarter as initial compensation to address the hit from the temporary grounding of 737 MAX 9 jets. The payment is equivalent to lost profits in the quarter, the carrier said in a filing, adding…
By Clara Denina and Veronica Brown LONDON (Reuters) – Sigma Lithium’s chief executive won’t sell the miner at current lithium price levels and is concentrating on its near-term expansion plans, she told Reuters in an interview. The Vancouver-based company, whose main business is a hard rock lithium project at Brazil’s Grota do Cirilo, started scouting…
By Anirban Sen and Milana Vinn (Reuters) -Google parent Alphabet has been talking to its advisers about the possibility of making an offer for HubSpot, an online marketing software company with a market value of $35 billion, people familiar with the matter said. If Alphabet moves ahead with a bid, it would be a rare…
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will speak by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, three days after Israel launched an attack in which seven World Central Kitchen aid workers were killed, a U.S. official said. The White House has described Biden as outraged and heartbroken by the attack…
Apr 3 (Reuters) – Walt Disney shareholders have backed Chief Executive Bob Iger and other company directors, ending a multimillion-dollar mud-slinging battle launched by activist investors Trian Fund Management and Blackwells Capital. The vote to re-elect all 12 of Disney’s current board members, announced at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, defeated the campaign…
SEOUL (Reuters) – SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest memory chip maker, said on Wednesday it will invest around $3.87 billion to build an advanced packaging plant and research and development facility for AI products in the U.S. state of Indiana. The new plant will include an advanced chip production line to mass-produce next-generation high bandwidth…
(Reuters) -Bank of America (BofA) Global Research has raised its 2024 Brent and WTI oil price forecasts, citing escalating geopolitical tensions and the OPEC+ producer group maintaining supply curbs. The bank now expects Brent and WTI crude prices this year to average $86 and $81 per barrel respectively, with prices of both peaking around $95…
