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2025 mergers and acquisitions
- Paramount GlobalParamount Global paid $16 million to settle a lawsuit from President Trump.
- KotakuKotaku, the games site, was failing within a month of its 2004 launch. Brian Crecente was brought in to rescue it.
- Polygon (website)Christopher Grant first turned down Vox Media's offer to build a video game site. Polygon launched in 2012.
- Boston CelticsRed Auerbach of the Boston Celtics reportedly offered the Ice Capades to Rochester to land Bill Russell.
- DirecTVDirecTV, headquartered in El Segundo, California, began broadcasting on the 17th of June 1994. By the end of that year's count it had 320,000 subscribers. Twenty years later, in 2014, the figure stood at 20,265,000. That is a lot of…
- U.S. SteelU.S. Steel began in 1901 as the world's first billion-dollar corporation.
- Skydance MediaSkydance Media took its name from a pilot's aerobatics. David Ellison founded it on the 4th of April 2006.
- GKIDSGKIDS won its first Best Animated Feature Oscar with The Boy and the Heron.
- Quartz (publication)A ChatGPT-powered tool quietly wrote hundreds of daily articles for the website Quartz for a year.
- PC WorldPC World magazine stopped printing in 2013 after thirty years. The August 2013 issue was its last on paper.