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  • Media Nusantara Plunges as Saban Divests Shares: Jakarta Mover

    PT Media Nusantara Citra, Indonesia’s largest media company by market value, plunged the most in almost four years after Saban Capital sold $85 million worth of shares.

  • Univision’s Saban Seeks to Triple Asia Investments in Two Years

    Saban Capital Group Inc., the private- equity firm of Univision Communications Inc. Chairman Haim Saban, wants to triple its investments in Asia over the next two years focusing on media and communication.

  • Qatar: Attention-Starved Teen of the Middle East

    Here is the genius of Qatar, the peanut-sized Persian Gulf state that provides material support to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and possibly some of Syria’s jihadist rebel groups, in a single image: A two-cheeked kiss, in public, between Qatar’s second-most powerful man, the prime minister (and foreign minister), Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, and Haim Saban, the Israeli-American billionaire who funds, among other things, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

  • News Corp. to Take Fox Off Air If Courts Back Aereo

    News Corp.’s Fox network will go off the air and become a cable channel if U.S. courts don’t stop Internet startup Aereo Inc. from retransmitting shows like “The Simpsons” without permission, said Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey.

  • ‘Power Rangers’ Billionaire Saban Looking for Asian Investments

    Saban Capital Group, U.S. billionaire Haim Saban’s private-equity firm, opened its first Asian office in Hong Kong and plans to invest “a significant” amount of capital in the region, said the company’s president.

  • Murdoch-Diller Showdown Threatens to Make Fox Cable-Only

    Billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Barry Diller are squaring off in what’s fast becoming a struggle for the future of television.

  • Adelson-Led Billionaires Spend Cash in Israel Elections

    Sheldon Adelson, the U.S. casino mogul who has called himself the world’s richest Jew, couldn’t vote in Israel’s parliamentary elections in January. That didn’t stop his free daily newspaper, Yisrael Hayom, from publishing a front-page editorial last year arguing in favor of bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities -- an option voiced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • Bank Leumi Advances on Report Haim Saban May Purchase Stake

    Bank Leumi Le-Israel Ltd. rose to the highest in almost a month after a local website reported investor Haim Saban and outgoing Leumi Chief Executive Officer Galia Maor may acquire a stake in the bank. The bank denied the report after the close of trading today.

  • Billionaire Saban Acquires 5% of Indonesia’s Media Nusantara in Asia Push

    Saban Capital Group, led by U.S. billionaire Haim Saban, bought a 5 percent stake in Indonesia’s PT Media Nusantara Citra for 692 billion rupiah ($78.2 million) in its first investment in the Southeast Asian country.

  • Partner Outperforming Cellcom on Saban: Israel Overnight

    Partner Communications Co. is outperforming Cellcom Israel Ltd. in the stock market on prospects investment from a new shareholder will help the phone company revive sales growth amid rising competition.

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