In the filing, Disney and Fox said the ongoing antitrust scrutiny of U.S. telecommunications provider AT&T Inc's (T.N) planned merger with
media conglomerate Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) heightened concerns about potential regulatory hurdles to Comcast's bid.
Its other investors include Times Internet Ltd, part of
media conglomerate Times Group, and Lightspeed Ventures.
Not exact matches
Vice had not provided updates on its offline intentions until today, but rumours of a takeover attempt by conventional broadcasting companies
Time Warner and Fox served to keep the news channel - speculation alive, because being absorbed into a traditional
media conglomerate would give Vice easy access to their cable networks and partners.
And over
time this has an insidious effect on the free
media because people start to check themselves, understanding that critiquing the president can actually hurt their bosses, or their
media conglomerates bottom line.
Times Internet Ltd (TIL) is the digital business arm of
media conglomerate Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd (BCCL) that runs several market - leading newspapers such as The
Times of India and The Economic
Times as well as TV news channels.
The Economic
Times reported that Walmart has reached agreements with Tiger Global Management, the New York investment firm; Naspers, the South African
media conglomerate; Accel, the venture capital firm and Tencent Holdings, the Chinese company, to purchase their stakes in Flipkart.
That includes YouTube networks such as Maker Studios and digital
media startups such as BuzzFeed, as well as newspapers (The New York
Times), magazines (Condé Nast and Fortune publisher
Time Inc.), and classic
media conglomerates (
Time Warner and News Corp.).
In the intervening years, Walt Disney and its fellow
media conglomerates may have cleaned up
Times Square, but now our kids are whoring themselves for attention on News Corp — owned MySpace.
At the same
time the national reviewers were employees of companies that were either owned by the
media conglomerates that owned the publishing imprints or were so dependent on the advertising revenue from those companies that they might as well have been.
MI: True — but at the same
time, the Big Six publishers are also owned by what in many cases are large international
media conglomerates, and I don't believe that their interests ultimately have anything to do with creating a more competitive bookselling marketplace, or a world that is ultimately better for book buyers and readers — or authors, for that matter.
Instead (though not necessarily due to the Act) we saw connectivity and
media companies engulf each other, forming enormous
conglomerates like AOL
Time Warner and Comcast NBC Universal.