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The billionaire financier's U.S.-listed investment vehicle is facing a delay in pricing its I.P.O., the latest speed bump in its journey to the public markets. Ackman delays his big bet [...]

The billionaire financier’s U.S.-listed investment vehicle is facing a delay in pricing its I.P.O., the latest speed bump in its journey to the public markets. Ackman delays his big bet [...]

ConocoPhillips has agreed to buy Marathon Oil for $22.5 billion, as consolidation in the U.S. energy sector shows little sign of slowing down. Another mega oil deal Bullish https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-07/are-oil-prices-heading-to-100-this-summer-as-a-global-shortage-takes-hold may [...]

Nearly three decades ago, a young reporter slept on the floor of Columbia's Hamilton Hall for several nights to file an article for The Village Voice. More than 100 students [...]

Nearly three decades ago, a young reporter slept on the floor of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall for several nights to file an article for The Village Voice. More than 100 students [...]

As the number of Hong Kong films being produced settles at a relatively modest level, a new trend is emerging at the Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA) that sees the [...]

The tech giant has dropped its plans to develop an electric vehicle, but some of the development at the heart of the effort has helped power other products and services. [...]

Anyone interested in the new Hong Kong cinema must have heard of the government’s much heralded First Feature Film Initiative (FFFI), launched in March 2013 to identify new talent and [...]

In late September, it was announced that A Light Never Goes Out had been selected as the Hong Kong entry in the 2024 Academy Awards’ best international feature film category [...]

The 92-year-old media tycoon is set to become chairman emeritus of Fox and News Corporation, but he still wields considerable power over the empire he built. The next chapter in [...]

News Corp said that Emma Tucker, a longtime editor in London, would replace Matt Murray, who has led the news organization for four years. The Wall Street Journal named a [...]

It may seem strange to put the name of one of Hong Kong’s greatest filmmakers in the same sentence as writer’s block, but there is a case to be made [...]

The first thing to say about Derek Yee Tung-sing is that he doesn’t shy away from contentious issues. In a rare interview in which a prominent filmmaker answers every politically [...]

On the cusp of the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule, we look back at some of the films that particularly echoed public sentiment at the time [...]

Is there a hint of truth to the ­frequently whispered, though seemingly hyperbolic claim that Hong Kong cinema is dead? After all, how do you explain the minimal fanfare when, [...]

Although Gordon Lam Ka-tung has one of the most recognisable faces in Hong Kong cinema, his unassuming demeanour belies the film-star stature he has attained in recent years. “Lam Ka-tung [...]

The company has 222 million customers, with 67 million in the U.S., and expects to add 8.5 million subscribers in the December quarter. It's been a tale of two Netflixes [...]

POLICY Biden Taps Privacy Expert For Trade Commission President Biden will nominate Alvaro Bedoya, an online privacy expert, for a seat on the Federal Trade Commission, putting another critic of [...]

The Booker Prize-winning author has reached a deal with the newsletter platform, where he plans to publish fiction and interact with readers. There is Salman Rushdie in real life, and [...]

The publishing giant will take control of Politico, Politico Europe and Politico's tech news site, Protocol. Politico, the Washington news site that has prospered for years as Beltway professionals gobbled [...]

MEDIA Owner of Politico Seeks $1 Billion in Potential Deal Politico, the Washington news site popular with Beltway power brokers, is seeking as much as $1 billion in a potential [...]

Fruit Chan Gor may have been directing movies since the 1990s but somehow he has never made one that opened in Hong Kong cinemas during the peak summer season - [...]

The company expects to end the year with about 8.5 million. In its quarterly results, it reported holding nearly $1 billion in cash. The New York Times Company said in [...]

Byline: Edmund Lee and Lauren Hirsch Not so long ago, when newspapers and magazines were going out of business all across the country, BuzzFeed and a few other fast-growing web [...]

AMAZON Profit Jumps to $7.8 Billion Amazon said on Thursday that it made more money in the latest quarter compared with last year -- a lot more. The company said [...]

ENERGY Jet Fuel Shortages In West Worry Airlines The airline industry took the unusual step on Tuesday of asking federal regulators to help increase jet fuel supplies at the Reno-Tahoe [...]

Not so long ago, when newspapers and magazines were going out of business all across the country, BuzzFeed and a few other fast-growing web publications seemed like the future of [...]

HBO and its streaming service, HBO Max, have attracted 67.5 million customers, and the company expects to reach 73 million by year end. AT&T may not want HBO Max anymore, [...]

New data shows Netflix, long the king of streaming, is losing attention as subscribers shift to competitors like Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video. The cracks are showing in Netflix's worldwide [...]

The late, great Canto-pop singer Anita Mui Yim-fong is set to ­receive the big-budget biopic treatment her iconic status ­deserves with the simply titled Anita, a new Hong Kong film [...]

Byline: Edmund Lee To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. An hour into our interview, the artist David Choe [...]

An hour into our interview, the artist David Choe admits that he lied about something. He said he had turned down two offers to do a television show many years [...]

The digital media company, which will merge with a publicly listed shell company in what is known as a SPAC deal, also lined up about $150 million in debt financing. [...]

POLICY Central Banks Are Urged To Issue Digital Currencies An umbrella organization for the world's central banks urged its members on Wednesday to issue digital equivalents to cash that would [...]

A new report details ViacomCBS's use of a labyrinthine tax shelter to sell rights to its shows and films overseas. Dismissed by critics and devoured by fans, ''Transformers: Age of [...]

An early-morning meeting at a Greenwich Village townhouse, under the watchful eye of Steve McQueen, was part of a monthslong campaign. In the predawn hours of April 1, David Zaslav, [...]

Following its spinoff of WarnerMedia, AT&T is back to primarily being a wireless company, with all of the challenges that entails. At a meeting of AT&T's top leaders at the [...]

The telecommunications giant will spin off WarnerMedia in a transaction that will combine HBO and CNN with Oprah Winfrey’s OWN and HGTV. Just three years after it thundered into Hollywood [...]

A merger could be announced as soon as Monday, in a deal that would offload the media business that AT&T fought to buy. Less than three years after AT&T spent [...]

ViacomCBS reports that its decision to revamp and rebrand its streaming service seems to be paying off. SpongeBob, ''Star Trek'' and the Super Bowl have attracted new subscribers to ViacomCBS's [...]

AUTOS: https://scoop.nyt.net/ui/article/100000007745457/web/editing AUTOMOBILES G.M. Profit Hits $3 Billion, But Chips Shortage Looms A global shortage of computer chips that has forced automakers to idle plants in recent weeks is expected [...]

The publisher added 301,000 digital subscribers for the first quarter, the slowest gain in over a year. Profits jumped, beating Wall Street expectations. No doubt, President Biden has lowered the [...]

Verizon offloaded its media business to Apollo Global Management in a deal valued at $5 billion as the mobile phone giant focuses on building out its 5G network. Yahoo and [...]

A new foundation is starting with $250 million in backing from influential executives and major companies. Some of the wealthiest and most influential Asian-American business leaders are mounting an ambitious [...]

In making the deal with the private equity firm Apollo, Verizon is acknowledging that it couldn't compete with Google and Facebook for digital ads. Instead, it will concentrate on building [...]

As it takes the risk of transforming itself from a TV giant into a streaming start-up, the cable operator beat investors' estimates in its first-quarter results. If you want a [...]

AT&T, HBO's parent company, reported that HBO and the new streamer added 2.7 million subscribers in the first quarter. AT&T added 2.7 million new customers to HBO and HBO Max [...]

The streaming service reported the addition of four million new customers for the first quarter, below the six million it had forecast. Netflix still rules the streaming universe. As of [...]

Byline: Edmund Lee To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. The Wall Street Journal is a rarity in 21st-century [...]

A new publication from a Vanity Fair veteran aims to attract writers with a revenue-sharing plan. The project has private equity backing. A former editor at Vanity Fair has been [...]