LONDON, – Britain said on Tuesday it could intervene in Paramount Skydance Corp’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, potentially holding up the $110 billion deal after the U.S. and China gave it the green light. <\/p>\n
The move is the first step \u200bin a process that could see the deal referred to the UK’s anti-trust regulator, which made headlines in 2023 when it blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard to the fury of the two U.S. companies. It later changed its mind after Microsoft amended its acquisition plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LONDON, – Britain said on Tuesday it could intervene in Paramount Skydance Corp’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, potentially holding up the $110 billion deal after the U.S. and China gave it the green light. The move is the first step \u200bin a process that could see the deal referred to the UK’s anti-trust regulator, which made headlines in 2023 when it blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard to the fury of the two U.S. companies. It later changed its mind after Microsoft amended its acquisition plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018004,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017978\/revisions\/1018004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}