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    Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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    1741 points meetpateltech | 15 comments | 05 Dec 25 12:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.723s | source | bottom
    1. moolcool ◴[05 Dec 25 13:38 UTC] No.46161112[source]▶
    https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741...
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    2. skeeter2020 ◴[05 Dec 25 14:05 UTC] No.46161435[source]▶
    What's funny is that Onion article uses "a blockbuster $112 billion deal" because in 1998 a figure that high was so preposterous it helped with the parody. They'd need to add a few zeros today.
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    3. teeray ◴[05 Dec 25 14:45 UTC] No.46161961[source]▶
    “Dr. Evil, this is 1969, that kind of money doesn’t even exist! It’s like saying you want a gajillion bajillion dollars!”
    4. giraffe_lady ◴[05 Dec 25 14:54 UTC] No.46162087[source]▶
    Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico is an excellent joke all on its own damn.
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    5. tgv ◴[05 Dec 25 15:07 UTC] No.46162251[source]▶
    Remember, that's just a subsidiairy of the Sheinhardt Wig Company.
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    6. mortos ◴[05 Dec 25 15:57 UTC] No.46163011[source]▶
    Also a pretty subtle one, this article was written after Boeing and McConnell Douglas merged a year prior.
    7. jimbokun ◴[05 Dec 25 16:30 UTC] No.46163537[source]▶
    > Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”
    8. scruple ◴[05 Dec 25 18:20 UTC] No.46165106[source]▶
    > Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.
    9. ezfe ◴[05 Dec 25 19:00 UTC] No.46165704[source]▶
    Inflation adjusted it would be about double since 1998 - $223 billion, this Netflix deal is for approximately 1/3rd that amount.
    10. qnleigh ◴[05 Dec 25 19:22 UTC] No.46166028[source]▶
    > Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”
    11. xp84 ◴[05 Dec 25 20:30 UTC] No.46166841[source]▶
    Also funny is how many of the companies listed as top-level parts of the conglomerates, like Viacom, Paramount, Boeing, SBC-Ameritech, Bell Atlantic-NYNEX, etc. have since conglomerated further in the years since!
    12. dvngnt_ ◴[05 Dec 25 21:49 UTC] No.46167845[source]▶
    > A spokesperson for the newly formed Bank One-Chase Manhattan-MCI-WorldCom said the company plans to cut 92,000 jobs this month.

    They're pretty close with the headcount though

    13. venturecruelty ◴[05 Dec 25 23:15 UTC] No.46168667{3}[source]▶
    "Not poisoning rivers since 1997"
    14. padjo ◴[05 Dec 25 23:31 UTC] No.46168828[source]▶
    Wow, I get two cookie banners and an unclosable full screen pop up on that link. The web really has become garbage.
    15. jakub_g ◴[07 Dec 25 22:38 UTC] No.46186021[source]▶
    > “Take Paramount-Viacom-ABC-Disney, for example,” he said. “Disney makes the movie, Joel Siegel of Paramount-owned ABC-TV gives the movie a rave review, and Disney subsidiaries Blockbuster and McDonald’s promote the video release of the movie in their respective stores with mail-in rebates and Happy Meal action figures. It’s a win-win scenario.”

    Apart from McDonald's, we're not that far!