The 6 biggest reveals from WBD's filing on why it rejected Paramount

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David Zaslav, right, of Warner Bros. Discovery, which rejected bids from David Ellison's Paramount Skydance.

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LinkedIn is giving us its own version of Spotify Wrapped. Are you ready?

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LinkedIn Year in Review

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  • LinkedIn is hopping on the Spotify Wrapped bandwagon.
  • The professional networking platform released a "Year in Review" feature that recaps user data.
  • I spent 281 days on LinkedIn this year, and a lot of my connections scored AI jobs.

Curious just how much time you're spending on LinkedIn?

The Oscars have a new stage on YouTube. The audience may have other plans.

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Adrien Brody won the 2025 Best Actor Oscar for his role in "The Brutalist" — a movie with lots of acclaim and a pretty modest box office.

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The Oscars are heading to YouTube starting in 2029, ending a more than 50-year run on ABC

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YouTube will soon own the global rights to the Oscars.

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Watch live: Netflix and Paramount fight over Warner Bros. Discovery

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Paramount CEO David Ellison wants to buy Warner Bros. Discovery — but has had his offers rejected multiple times.

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Netflix is bringing 3 Barstool video podcasts to the platform in an exclusive deal

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Boston, MA - June 21: Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy celebrates the Boston Celtics during a duck boat parade to celebrate the 18th Boston Celtics NBA championship. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Barstool Sports' founder Dave Portnoy. Three of the company's video podcasts are coming to Netflix.

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How much the bankers are getting paid as Netflix and Paramount fight to buy Warner Bros. Discovery

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David Zaslav is pursuing a potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Why WBD's CEO never responded to David Ellison's text during the bidding war

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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav ignored Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison's text before announcing the company's Netflix deal.

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Middle Eastern money raised questions about Paramount's WBD bid — but that's not why Netflix won

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Paramount CEO David Ellison wanted to use $24 billion of funding from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi to help fund his bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Here's what Netflix's co-CEOs are saying after WBD rejected Paramount's hostile bid

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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos at the "Black Rabbit" event.

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