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Warner Bros Discovery Stock Skyrockets on $60B Takeover Rumors

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Stock Climbs as Paramount, Comcast and Netflix Line Up Bids in High‑Stakes Auction – November 14, 2025

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBD) moved back into the spotlight on Friday, November 14, 2025, as a potential sale of all or part of the media giant appeared to crystallize into a three‑way contest between Paramount Skydance, Comcast and Netflix. The growing prospect of a bidding war sent WBD shares higher and intensified scrutiny of the company’s strategy, leadership and balance sheet. TradingView+3Sports Business Journal+3The Wall Street Journal+3 At the same time, new regulatory and governance angles emerged: a prominent U.S. lawmaker raised antitrust concerns about a possible Netflix deal, and Warner Bros. Discovery quietly rewrote CEO David Zaslav’s
Paramount Slashes 1,000 Jobs as New CEO Eyes $60 B Warner Bros. Takeover

Paramount Slashes 1,000 Jobs as New CEO Eyes $60 B Warner Bros. Takeover

Layoffs Under Ellison’s New Regime Just two months after Skydance Media’s $8+ billion takeover of Paramount Global, the combined company – now Paramount Skydance Corp. – is undertaking one of the entertainment industry’s largest recent staff reductions reuters.com theguardian.com. On Wednesday (Oct. 29), CEO David Ellison kicked off the first phase: roughly 1,000 layoffs across U.S. operations spanning film, TV, streaming, and corporate units reuters.com. Additional cuts bringing the total to about 2,000 jobs eliminated are expected in the coming weeks abcnews.go.com. Ellison, 40, assumed leadership of Paramount Skydance after orchestrating the merger in August, which made him the latest Hollywood mogul
Beyond AI: 8 Must-Read Tech News Highlights from August 11–12, 2025

Beyond AI: 8 Must-Read Tech News Highlights from August 11–12, 2025

Google sets August 20 for the Pixel 10 launch, unveiling the Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold with IP68 water and dust resistance that outclasses Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7. GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke will resign to found a new startup, with Microsoft having acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018 and Julia Liuson named interim to oversee engineering, revenue, and support. Marks & Spencer restored Click & Collect on August 11 after almost four months offline due to a cyberattack that cost about £300 million in lost profit for the 141-year-old retailer. Paramount agreed
12 August 2025
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