Personalized Story Group has acquired Slovenian personalized book publisher Hooray Heroes, which has created more than three million personalized books, adding it to a portfolio including Story Bug and My Story Tale.
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Paramount completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on October 6, forming a combined company called Skydance under David Ellison. The deal unites Paramount+ and HBO Max with CBS, CNN, TBS and franchises like Game of Thrones and the DC Universe. It closed after settlements with a coalition of U.S. states and a Hollywood writers' union cleared the main legal hurdles.
David Ellison's Paramount Skydance is set to close its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday after a year of rejected offers, a bidding war, multiple regulatory approvals, an antitrust challenge from state attorneys general and a settlement. The combined group will be renamed Skydance and trade under ticker "SKYD," controlling two storied film studios and nearly a third of basic cable programming.
Agent-to-agent advertising infrastructure startup pubX acquired Compliant, which keeps its name and leadership; terms were not disclosed.
Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will operate as Skydance once their roughly $110 billion merger closes, CEO David Ellison announced. The combination unites two major Hollywood studios, Paramount+ and HBO Max, and networks including CBS, CNN, MTV, TBS and Comedy Central. Twelve states had challenged the deal on competition grounds, but a judge approved a settlement with the state attorneys general this week, clearing the path.