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Dec 22 (Reuters) – Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has stepped in to personally guarantee $40.4 billion in Paramount Skydance’s latest effort to pry Warner Bros Discovery away from selling its prized Hollywood assets to streaming giant Netflix.
The guarantee, disclosed in a filing on Monday, seeks to allay...
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Winter Storm Ezra snarls US travel as meteorologists warn of ‘bomb cyclone’
By Aatreyee Dasgupta and Shivansh Tiwary
Dec 29 (Reuters) – Winter Storm Ezra disrupted holiday travel across the U.S. Northeast, Midwest and Great Lakes for a third straight day on Monday, causing thousands of flight delays and hundreds of cancellations as airlines...
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New York subway ends its MetroCard era and switches fully to tap-and-go fares
NEW YORK (AP) — When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity into one of the world’s oldest and largest transit systems.
Now, more than three decades later, the gold-hued fare card and its...
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- Poland urges Brussels to probe TikTok over AI-generated content
- Meta buys startup Manus in latest move to advance its artificial intelligence efforts
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- South Korea’s L&F slashes value of battery material supply deal with Tesla
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