TNB Tech Minute: Warner Rejects Paramount’s Hostile Bid
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:33.8 | Wednesday, December 17th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:38.8 | Warner Brothers Discovery has rejected Paramount's unsolicited all-cash-takeover bid, stating |
| 0:45.1 | that Netflix's proposal remains superior. In a sharply critical letter to shareholders, |
| 0:50.8 | Warner called Paramount's nearly $78 billion offer illusory, raising concerns over |
| 0:56.3 | the credibility of its funding. Netflix earlier this month agreed to pay $72 billion in cash |
| 1:02.7 | in stock for Warner's a studio and HBO Max streaming business after the entertainment company splits |
| 1:08.6 | itself into two. Warner emphasized that the Netflix merger is fully backed by a public company with an |
| 1:14.7 | investment-grade balance sheet. |
| 1:16.6 | Paramount didn't immediately comment Wednesday morning. |
| 1:18.9 | It must now decide whether to submit a sweetened proposal. |
| 1:23.3 | Shares of Chinese artificial intelligence chip startup, MetaX, integrated circuits, jumped |
| 1:28.6 | almost eightfold on their first day of trading in Shanghai. The initial public offering raised |
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