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participants, not of Reuters News. Welcome to the views room. I'm Rob Cox, the editor of breaking

views, the potential commentary arm of Reuters News, coming to you from Rome, Italy. The week began

with a bang in deal terms as AT&T agreed to spin off and merge the cornucopia of media assets

it bought when it took over time Warner into a smaller rival discovery. The transaction wasn't huge,

but it was one of those rare and actually refreshing about faces by a big company

that belatedly recognizes the strategy it had been pursuing for years was flawed.

Under the telephone company's previous CEO, Randy Stevenson, AT&T got all worked up about

the need to become a content and media business. It spent over $100 billion for the owner of HBO,

Warner Studios, Looney Tunes, and CNN. Stevenson even went toe to toe with Donald Trump's

Justice Department to get the deal approved. So it was kind of mind-blowing to see his successor,

John Stanky, unwind the whole thing. Lauren Loughlin and Jen Saba break it down for us.

Meantime, the merger of ride hailing to delivery to payments giant Gojack and online shopping site Tokopedia

to create an Indonesian powerhouse just a month after Singapore-based rival Grab was valued at $40 billion in a big SPAC deal,

gave Yuna Galani and Sharon Lamb a chance to discuss

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