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Lauren Thomas

ARTICLES BY LAUREN THOMAS

Netflix has said a deal with Warner Bros. would help it attract and retain more subscribers. Philip Cheung for WSJ

Netflix landed a big deal. Now it could have a big fight.

4 min read . 06 Dec 2025

Warner Discovery essentially put itself up for sale in October after receiving several unsolicited offers from Paramount, which Warner Discovery rebuffed. (Bloomberg)

Netflix makes majority cash bid for Warner Discovery

2 min read . 02 Dec 2025

Comcast and Netflix are primarily interested in the Warner Bros. movie and television studios and the HBO Max streaming service but not its cable network holdings, (REUTERS)

Paramount, Comcast, Netflix prepare bids for Warner as deadline approaches

1 min read . 14 Nov 2025

Whit Bernard, left, and Clive Meanwell Zé Otavio

This unlikely duo is developing a weight-loss pill. Big Pharma is obsessed.

6 min read . 07 Nov 2025

The overall jobs market in the U.S. has slowed and the economy looks weaker, but bankers are showing confidence in the future. (REUTERS)

Wall Street is poaching bankers in a red-hot job market

3 min read . 24 Sept 2025

Illustration: Emil Lendof/WSJ, iStock

The year’s buzziest deals are corporate breakups

4 min read . 04 Sept 2025

Tan has so far shied away from spinning off the manufacturing segment, which lost $3.2 billion in the second quarter. (REUTERS)

Inside Intel’s tricky dance with Trump

12 min read . 25 Aug 2025

Intel reigned for decades as the world’s most valuable semiconductor company, (Reuters)

Intel’s CEO, under attack from Trump, is already at odds with his board

5 min read . 08 Aug 2025

Shell in early talks to acquire rival BP

3 min read . 25 Jun 2025

Illustration: Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ

Dealmakers are struggling to make sense of Trump’s antitrust policy

3 min read . 22 Apr 2025

A Harley-Davidson motorcycle. (AFP)

Major hedge fund prepares for fight at Harley-Davidson

2 min read . 16 Apr 2025

Elon Musk merges X with xAI, boosting valuation and ad revenue, as investor interest surges ahead of Trump’s new trade tariffs. (Image: Reuters)

How Elon Musk rescued X from the brink

5 min read . 09 Apr 2025

Elon Musk’s merger of X and xAI values the combined company at over $110 billion. (AP)

Elon Musk’s megadeal between X and xAI breaks Wall Street’s rulebook

3 min read . 01 Apr 2025

Lip-Bu Tan, the new chief executive of Intel. (Times of India)

Inside the mind of Intel’s new CEO: ‘Disrupt and Leapfrog’

5 min read . 14 Mar 2025

Dealmakers are wary after the recent whipsaw on tariffs. Photo: John Taggart for WSJ

For CEOs and bankers, the Trump euphoria is fading fast

3 min read . 10 Feb 2025

Illustration: Rachel Mendelson/WSJ, iStock (2)

The celebrity activist investor is going extinct

6 min read . 27 Dec 2024

Activist Starboard Value Takes $1 Billion Stake in Pfizer

Pfizer faces pressure as Starboard Value takes $1 billion stake

3 min read . 07 Oct 2024

Noam Shazeer is leading Google’s efforts to build the next version of its most powerful AI technology, Gemini. (File Photo: Bloomberg)

Google paid $2.7 billion to bring back an AI genius who quit in frustration

5 min read . 25 Sept 2024

Edgar Bronfman Jr. is trying to get back into the media business with a bid for Paramount. Matthew Staver/Bloomberg News

The Seagram heir who wants to buy Paramount

6 min read . 24 Aug 2024

Current Starbucks chief Laxman Narasimhan has stepped down after roughly 16 months on the job. GRANT HINDSLEY for WSJ

Inside Starbucks’s surprising CEO firing and hiring

8 min read . 14 Aug 2024