Japan's NTT plans to take NTT Data private for $16.4 billion

Open this picture. It illustrates the EXTENT of Japan's dominance in the LNG supply chain 👉 A Japanese company produces the shale gas 👉 Gas is sent to an LNG plant partially owned by a Japanese company 👉 LNG is loaded on a ship built and owned by a Japanese company 👉 The ship is controlled by a Japanese company, which sends it to Thailand 👉 T... See more

Let’s assume for a moment, though, that between the two sales, Paramount walks away with $4.5 billion in cash. Paramount has $13.5 billion of net debt, as of March 31. If Bakish decided to use the $4.5 billion in cash from the sales of S&S and BET to pay down that debt—always a good use of cash—Paramount would still have $9 billion in debt. On ... See more

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No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds. And yet, in a stroke of good fortune, a formidable special interes... See more

Frankly, Paramount Global should also have known better than to try to sell the third largest book publisher to the industry’s biggest player. I’m sure the $2.2 billion purchase price—incredibly, nearly one quarter of Paramount’s now anemic $10.5 billion market value—must have been more than a little enticing, and therefore worth the risk, along wi... See more

Basically, enterprise customers would rather pay a fee to get a premium SaaS type model of the product that has the security and privacy functionality they need, rather than doing the work of using the open source version and building that functionality themselves. Red Hat was acquired by IBM in 2019 for 34 billion and generates billions a year in ... See more