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Potential Paramount & Warner Bros. Merger, Apple Vision Pro Production & Silicon Valley's Job Market

Bloomberg Tech

Bloomberg

Tech News, News, Business News

4.470 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow break down reports of a potential merger between media giants Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Plus, Apple ramps up production of its Vision Pro for a 2024 release. And, a look at the state of jobs in Silicon Valley after a year of layoffs at big tech companies.  

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Join global business leaders and investors at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit, returning to Singapore on July 31st.

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Take part in solutions driven discussions on how to drive business value and unlock opportunity

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while remaining nimble in times of change and greater ESG accountability.

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Learn more at Bloomberg Live.com slash sustainablebiz Singapore. That's Bloomberg Live.com slash Sustainable Biz Singapore.

0:23.7

That's Bloomberg Live.com slash sustainable Biz Singapore.

0:28.0

From the heart of where innovation, money and power collie in Silicon Valley and beyond,

0:37.0

this is Bloomberg Technology with Caroline Hyde and Edna Luddler. I'm Caroline Heine-Hyne Bloomberg's world headquarters in New York.

0:57.0

And I'm Ed Lodlow in San Francisco. This is Bloomberg Technology.

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Coming up, Paramount, Warner Brothers, are they in talks for a possible merger?

1:06.0

We're going to break down what we know on any talks between the two biggest media companies

1:10.8

in the world.

1:11.8

We'll get the outlook for the tech sector as the Nasat 100 bounces back from a sell-off

1:16.8

the knocked it off record highs. Denny Fish of Janice Henderson in the house.

1:20.6

Plus Apple ramps up production of its Vision Pro headset

1:23.2

saying the stage for a launch by this February. The one story that everyone's

1:27.4

talking about, Warner Brothers Discovery and Paramount have held talks about a

1:31.8

merger according to Bloomberg's sources.

1:34.8

Who else to turn to on the details than Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw, who leads our screen

1:39.5

time coverage of global Hollywood and Lucas, what do we know?

1:44.0

Well, we know that Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zazlav had lunch with or had a meal with Paramount Global CEO Bob Backish

1:52.8

and that there have been sort of informal conversations

1:56.7

between the two companies also involving

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