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Reports: Amazon Deal To Buy MGM Studios For $9 Billion Nearly Done 1 week ago According to numerous reports Amazon is very close to a deal to buy MGM Studios and its film library for nearly $9 billion with debt. This would significantly alter the streaming wars and give Amazon a huge base of over 4,000 titles, 17,000 hours of TV as well as the Epix pay-TV network. An agreement is expected this week unless their is a last-minute hitch. Some on Twitter have concerns about Amazon’s growing power. Journalist Dan Primack says that a top Amazon exec told him: “We’ll keep doing big deals unt...

Industry groups respond to relaxed CDC guidelines, unvaccinated adults open to financial incentives, and Apple reacts to employee outcry over new hire Also: Ellen DeGeneres announces her show to leave the air, social platforms respond to vaccine disinformation researchers, and Twitter users question vaccine promotions. Hello, communicators: Ellen DeGeneres has announced that her talk show will end after its upcoming 19th season and she will seek new challenges and opportunities as a creative person. Embedded in the announcement was the news from earlier this year that her show lost over a mil...

Peloton Treadmills Recalled After One Death, 70 Incidents The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Wednesday a voluntary recall of the The Peloton Tread+ and the Peloton Tread. The commission already had warned users in April. Anyone who has either treadmill should stop using it immediately and contact Peloton. A full refund is available for those who return the machines. About 125,000 units are involved. The company has stopped the sale and distribution of the Tread+ and is working on hardware modifications to make the exercise machine safe. In the United States, the Tread was o...

The Market Activity April 3, 2021 | News Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.  Happy Saturday, everyone. I do hope that you are in good spirits and in good health. I am learning to nap, something that has become a requirement in my life after I realized that the news cycle is never going to slow down. And because my partner and I adopted a third dog who likes to get up early,...

You might have just missed the best time to sell your startup Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.  Happy Saturday, everyone. I do hope that you are in good spirits and in good health. I am learning to nap, something that has become a requirement in my life after I realized that the news cycle is never going to slow down. And because my partner and I adopted a third dog who likes t...