{"id":981699,"date":"2025-12-23T08:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981699"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:30:52","slug":"why-larry-ellison-is-committing-40-4-bn-to-strengthen-paramounts-warner-bros-acquisition-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/23\/why-larry-ellison-is-committing-40-4-bn-to-strengthen-paramounts-warner-bros-acquisition-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Larry Ellison is committing $40.4 bn to strengthen Paramount\u2019s Warner Bros. acquisition bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle and one of the world\u2019s richest people, has stepped in personally to back Paramount Skydance\u2019s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. The move is aimed at allaying concerns over whether Paramount really has the money to close the deal. <\/p>\n<p>Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison will provide a personal guarantee of $40.4 billion in equity financing to support Paramount Skydance\u2019s all-cash $108.4 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a regulatory filing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle and one of the world\u2019s richest people, has stepped in personally to back Paramount Skydance\u2019s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. The move is aimed at allaying concerns over whether Paramount really has the money to close the deal. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison will provide a personal guarantee of $40.4 billion in equity financing to support Paramount Skydance\u2019s all-cash $108.4 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a regulatory filing.<\/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":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981699","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=981699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}