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Caroline Hyde

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Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

Now, MoreThreads joins CameraCon, Huawei, and Racing to fill a market void after Nvidia was, of course, forced to exit China.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

Plus, SoftBank, well, it's said to be in talks to acquire Digital Bridge, a PE firm with heavy investments in assets like data centers, according to sources.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

Now, the potential deal builds on SoftBank's efforts to take advantage of an AI-driven boom in digital infrastructure.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

A transaction could come together in a matter of weeks.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

And BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust recorded its longest streak of weekly withdrawals since its debut back in January 2024.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

Investors yanked more than $2.7 billion from the ETF over the five weeks to November the 28th.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

The ETF is now on pace for a sixth straight week of net outflows.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

Well, the policymakers are really being egged on by Congress and not just by Elizabeth Warren.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

We're seeing Republicans, including California's Darrell Issa, get into the act.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

And he is flagging his concerns on the consumer side.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

And really, it would fall to the Justice Department to conduct this review.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

Our expectation is that the agency's antitrust division will give this transaction the wire brush treatment.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

It will not go through the review process very easily.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

The biggest concern, Ed, really is around the streaming question.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

Of course, Warner Brothers has its storied movie studios and deep library of film and other productions.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

But it also owns HBO Max, which is the fourth largest streaming service in the world to Netflix's number one.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

So when you combine those, that would give Netflix following this deal 30 percent control over the global streaming market, 450 million users worldwide.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

And that would attract a lot of attention from regulatory authorities, not only here in Washington,

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

but in the European Union as well.

Bloomberg Tech
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $72 Billion Cash, Stock Deal

One of the things that our analysts here at Bloomberg, Jennifer Wray, said is that perhaps Netflix, to make this deal more palatable, could let go of HBO Max.