Here are the business stories making the headlines across Scotland and the UK this morning.
Paramount makes $108bn hostile bid for Warner Bros to trump Netflix
Paramount Skydance has made a $108.4billion hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery as it seeks to trump Netflix’s deal for the Hollywood entertainment group.
Paramount, which is led by David Ellison, son of the Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison — the world’’s second-richest man with a fortune of $270billion — who has said it would approach Warner Bros shareholders directly with an offer of $30 per share in cash for the entire company.
The Paramount bid is also backed by Affinity Partners, the investment company formed by Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, as well as $24billion in financing from the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi.
Aberdeen’s Marcliffe Hotel issues warning over Facebook scam
Aberdeen’s Marcliffe Hotel has warned the public after a fraudulent Facebook account was created impersonating the hotel and contacting entrants of its popular competitions.
The fake account asked entrants to provide bank details in order to claim prizes.
It appeared shortly after the launch of the hotel’s latest giveaway, a three-course dinner for two at the brand-new glass domed Skylark brasserie.
Trigger warning slapped on Harry Potter for ‘outdated attitudes’
A host of classic books for children and young people, including the first in the Harry Potter series, have been marked with trigger warnings at one of the country’s leading universities.
Students at the University of Glasgow have been cautioned that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone contains “outdated attitudes, abuse and language”.
The work by JK Rowling appears alongside a number of titles, including Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, the dystopian 2001 novel Noughts & Crosses by Malory Blackman and Edith Nesbit’s 1899 book The Treasure Seekers, assessed as having the potential to cause offence.