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Warner Bros Discovery is exploring a sale of its music library that could be valued at more than $1bn, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest move by chief executive David Zaslav to reduce debt at the sprawling Hollywood empire.
An undisputed disruptor of the auto industry, Elon Musk's Tesla has spearheaded some of the biggest shifts happening in the industry, from electric driving to software development and connected services. As he takes on more projects with Twitter and SpaceX, hear him talk about the EV group's next ambition: to become the largest carmaker on earth.
As the author of a series that has attracted 1.2bn reads, Rachel Smythe is one of the world's leading webtoons creators. But in her native New Zealand, almost no one seems to know what she does.
The writer is former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the co-founder and partner of the Krebs Stamos Group In the build-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the national security community braced for a campaign combining military combat, disinformation, electronic warfare and cyber attacks.
It is noon in Los Angeles. RZA, a trim 52-year-old, sports a pair of aviator-style sunglasses, a customary accessory. "You cool with the shades and all that?" he asks, to which I answer in the affirmative. I thank him for his time. "My time is ready to be given," he replies, Zen-like.
"I've always been that entrepreneur where I'd do any job. If it's a family member that needs help painting, I could go do that. If it's a garage, I could go do that," says Mist, a 29-year-old rapper from Birmingham. "One thing I've been taught is always have residual income."
AT&T is nearing a deal to combine its content unit Warner Media with rival Discovery to create a media giant with an enterprise value of $150bn, just a few years after acquiring the owner of CNN, HBO and Warner Bros, said people briefed about the matter.
How do you make money in the music industry? Streaming platforms like Spotify now dominate. But social media apps like TikTok and Instagram are also changing the playing field.
The Walt Disney Company, in its 97th year, has decided its television future lies in streaming. But what happens to its past? Disney Plus has been a knockout success, signing up more than 70m subscribers in its first year to cement the Mickey Mouse empire as a serious competitor to Netflix, whose boss Reed Hastings had expected its new rival to secure 20m customers "at best".
"Ugh. I hate it," Abigail Disney groans as I ask her to clear up once and for all just how much she is worth. It's easier to talk about sex than money, Walt Disney's grand-niece observes.
James Murdoch is set to invest about $1bn from the proceeds of the sale of his stake in 21st Century Fox to assemble a new portfolio of media companies that could include a liberal-leaning news outlet, according to people close to the billionaire investor.
Spotify's lead over Apple's music-streaming service in the US is narrowing, denting the air of invincibility around the recently floated pioneer. While Spotify still holds a commanding lead globally, Apple's faster growth rate in the world's largest music market reflects its ability to push its services to owners of its devices, such as the iPhone.
When Deloitte launched a digital division five years ago, competitors looked on nervously. The unit, which aimed to combine the "best aspects of a small creative agency" with Deloitte's global infrastructure, immediately set the consultancy apart in the eyes of clients as a leading provider of digital expertise.
Sunspel, which has been making luxury clothing since its founding in Nottingham in 1860, has shops today in London, Berlin and Tokyo. The FT visits its factory in nearby Long Eaton, Derbyshire, its UK manufacturing base since 1937, to see how its signature Sunspel T-shirt is made.
There is no area of business, society or life which technology is not upending. This report looks at the fullest range, from gold mining in Russia to gay bars in London
Francesca Bria tells John Thornhill how she is helping citizens in Barcelona design their digital future, moving from an economy fuelled by advertising and surveillance and towards transparency and a new social pact on the ownership of data.
Death rates have fallen dramatically but scientists now need to focus on the diseases's heartlands to win the fight against malaria, Janet Hemingway, outgoing director of the Liverpool School for Tropical Medicine tells Andrew Jack and Clive Cookson.
The circumstances of its conception were murky and surrounded by intrigue, which has never been a bar to future greatness. No fuss or fanfare attended its birth, which ditto. Eighteen years on, the infant has grown to much-admired maturity and become one of the great fixed points of this newspaper, a Financial Times institution as important and as enduring as Sam Brittan or Lex.