Appeals Court Upholds AT&T's $81B Time Warner Merger
A federal appeals court has approved Dallas-based AT&T's takeover of Time Warner.
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A federal appeals court has approved Dallas-based AT&T's takeover of Time Warner.
A federal judge ruled the merger was legal one month ago and imposed no conditions on the union.
AT&T is launching a new streaming service incorporating networks from the Time Warner company it just bought.
Comcast will likely bid for Fox's entertainment business as early as Wednesday now that a judge has cleared AT&T's $85 billion takeover of Time Warner.
A U.S. district court judge has approved AT&T's proposed $85 billion purchase of Time Warner, a corporate combination that promises to unleash even more megamergers in the fast-changing media business.
The fate of the AT&T-Time Warner merger, a deal opposed by the government that could shape how much consumers pay for streaming TV and movies, rests in the hands of a federal judge.
Samantha Bee apologized to Ivanka Trump and viewers on Thursday for using an obscenity to describe her on a segment of her TBS comedy show.
AT&T paid President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, $600,000 for advice on its proposed purchase of Time Warner.
In the antitrust trial's last day in federal court, the U.S. government pleaded its case Monday for blocking AT&T from absorbing Time Warner, saying that the combination would hurt consumers.
The Trump administration is facing off against AT&T to block the telephone giant from absorbing Time Warner, in a case that could shape how consumers get streaming TV and movies.
The Justice Department intends to sue AT&T to stop its $85 billion purchase of Time Warner.
AT&T now says that it is "uncertain" about when its $85 billion Time Warner purchase will close. The company had previously stated that the deal would be done by the end of the year.
The European Union has given its blessing to AT&T's proposed $85 billion purchase of Time Warner, saying that it raises no competition concerns in Europe. The deal still needs approval from U.S. regulators.
The CEOs of AT&T and Time Warner are heading to Capitol Hill in a bid to convince senators that a merger of their two companies will mean innovative new experiences for consumers.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is calling on the government to block a proposed $85 billion merger of communications giants AT&T and Time Warner.
Dallas-based AT&T is buying Time Warner, owner of the Warner Bros. movie studio as well as HBO and CNN, for $85.4 billion in a deal that could shake up the media landscape.
Time Warner's deal with Hulu comes almost a month after Comcast said that it's adding Netflix to its X1 set-top boxes in the latest deal to blur the lines separating cable TV from Internet video services.
Charter Communications is closing on its $67 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. The deals make Charter the second-largest home Internet provider and third-largest video provider in the U.S.
Federal regulators will impose several conditions meant to protect online video services as they back Charter's bid to buy Time Warner Cable and create the country's second-largest home Internet provider.
It wasn't a robocall, but a federal judge left a message anyway for companies Tuesday when he awarded nearly $230,000 to a Texas woman, finding that a cable company crossed the line when it harassed her with 153 robocalls even after she complained about the wrong numbers.
