It feels like every headline I wake up to in 2025 is some sort of notification that one company is being swallowed up by another one, and what we're supposed to do about it. The fact is that the creative industry of Hollywood is slowly following itself as new studios emerge and older studios combine. The ink is barely dry on the massive Paramount-Skydance merger, which just closed in August, creating a new (and hopefully more stable) entity run by David Ellison. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. Discov...| No Film School
For more than fifty years the U.S. right wing has embraced a neat trick: by claiming that literally anything in factual opposition to their beliefs is “biased” and therefore must be discarded as unreliable, they’ve bullied U.S. media into becoming a feckless mess terrified of accusations of “liberal bias.” Of course, if you ask the […]| Techdirt
Independent music leaders today published 100 Voices, a campaign with a clear More The post “100 Voices” on why UMG’s acquisition of Downtown should be blocked appeared first on WIN.| WIN
Consolidation is happening in green coffee trading, with increased competition, high interest rates and lower profit margins. Smaller green coffee traders will need to adapt in order to survive, either through wise financial partnerships or adapted business models.| Coffee Intelligence
The announced merger of Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) and JDE Peet’s has, in one stroke, redrawn the global coffee map. JDE Peet’s stock jumped over 17% on merger news, while KDP fell more than 7%. The $16bn revenue alliance creates the next biggest coffee player after Nestlé. Both firms were already racing to scale before merging.| Coffee Intelligence
We’ve well established that the AT&T–>Time Warner–>Discovery series of media mergers were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived by the ex…| Techdirt
By James Kwak Today, the Washington Post’s Outlook section published my article on the future of the American economy in the wake of the pandemic. They invited me to write it because of my ea…| The Baseline Scenario
