Federal Judge Halts Paramount’s $111 Billion Warner Bros. Acquisition. Here’s What Comes Next

A federal court issued a 14-day restraining order, siding with states that argue the massive media merger violates antitrust laws.

A federal court issued a 14-day restraining order, siding with states that argue the massive media merger violates antitrust laws.
Minister of state (independent charge) for information and broadcasting, environment and climate change Prakash Javadekar has been busy sorting out the various hats he’s expected to wear in this government. He spoke to ET on the Bharatiya Janata Party government’s approach towards media, social media, media controls and much more. Edited excerpts… In terms of…
Key insight: CSI has purchased Qolo, a commercial payments fintech, to bring its technology to community banks. Expert quote: “Businesses now measure their bank’s treasury tools against the software they already run everywhere else.” CCG Catalyst’s Paul Schaus Forward look: Qolo will continue to support its existing and active bank customers, according to a company…
AI agents are stepping into roles once reserved for humans—booking appointments, managing finances, and even making purchasing decisions. As these digital proxies act on our behalf, a new challenge emerges for cybersecurity: how do you verify the identity of a “user” that isn’t human at all? In a PaymentsJournal webinar, Memoona Anwar, Chief Compliance &…
Alternative strategies for liquid assets Alts as a third stream of modern portfolios opens up a truly vast investable universe for advisors to consider. However, Wilson argues that the contemporary market environment and the individual needs of retail investor clients should point advisors towards certain specific alternatives sectors. He calls out commodity exposures as a…
“We’re seeing that core inflation number stay close to target, it’s telling us that this is a supply shock. It’s not an overheating economy. So raising rates wouldn’t actually fix the problem. It would actually do the opposite. It would slow down and act on an already fragile growth economy. So the rate decision to…
ET Intelligence Group: The stock of Just Dial hit an upper circuit on Monday after the local search services provider announced a transition to professional management from a founder led approach. Excluding Monday’s surge, the stock has lost 40% over the past 12 months, with its price-earnings (P/E) multiple languishing at around 10 from the…