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State AG Pushes Cable TV Channel Sale To Help Settle Paramount-WBD Suit: Report
11+ hour, 18+ min ago (197+ words) New reports say California Attorney General Rob Bonta intends to ask Paramount Skydance executives to consider selling off some cable TV networks to settle the lawsuit around the company's potential $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery. The report came from…...
Platforms Petition Court To Block Kids Recommendation Restrictions
9+ hour, 37+ min ago (434+ words) Meta Platforms and Google Monday petitioned a federal appellate court to block enforcement of a California law prohibiting social platforms from algorithmically recommending posts to minors under 18 without their parents' consent. "Absent prompt relief from this Court, Meta will have…...
What's Anti-Competitive -- And Not -- In Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger?
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Social Platforms Make New Push To Block Law Restricting Recommendations
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (290+ words) Meta Platforms, Google and TikTok are petitioning a federal judge to immediately prevent enforcement of a California law prohibiting social platforms from algorithmically recommending posts to minors under 18 without their parents' consent. Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila in…...
States Sue To Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (407+ words) A California-led coalition of 12 state attorneys general on Monday sued to prevent Paramount Skydance from completing its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. The merger "would extinguish competition between Paramount and Warner Bros. and inflict substantial harm on movie theatres,…...
California Blasts Platforms' Bid To Block Algo Restrictions 08/17/2026
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (354+ words) California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pressing a federal judge to reject tech platforms' latest request to block a law prohibiting them from algorithmically recommending posts to minors without their parents' consent. "California should not be prevented from enforcing its…...
60-Plus Conan Is A Spry Guy In Travel Show's New Season
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (406+ words) Conan O’Brien demonstrates that he’s an active 63-year-old as he travels to four more distant locations in the third season of his far-flung travel show, “Conan O’Brien Must Go.” As he enters his golden years, O’Brien is well within the…...
Paramount Skydance Urges Judge To Toss Children's Privacy Suit
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (327+ words) Paramount Skydance and its streaming service Pluto TV are urging a federal judge to throw out a privacy lawsuit by parents of young children who allege that the companies wrongly shared children's video-viewing information with Google and Microsoft. U.S. District Court…...
Paramount-WBD Now: Real Effect Of A 12-State Lawsuit?
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (364+ words) Paramount Skydance's near-completed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery is not so complete. Or near. Twelve U.S. states just filed a lawsuit to stop the deal, with the primary reason being the combination will curb entertainment content/distribution, putting the TV/movie…...
Last Call: Don't Rely On Easing Of State's 'Deadline' Subject Line Law
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (364+ words) Email marketers who use subject lines saying “Last Chance,” or “The Sale Ends Today,” must have been pleased when Washington state legislators added an amendment to the Consumer Electronic Mail Act (CEMA) earlier this year. The change took place in…...