Leila Abboud

Former Bloomberg Gadfly Columnist

Leila Abboud is a former Bloomberg Gadfly columnist.

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Rocket Internet's Spectacular Display

Oliver Samwer should wow investors with a grand buyback.

September 28, 2017

September 28, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

Rocket Internet's Spectacular Display

Oliver Samwer should wow investors with a grand buyback.

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September 28, 2017

September 28, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

Uber Can't Be Warm and Cuddly and Worth $70 Billion

Fixing the culture is one thing, but employee rights are going to be expensive.

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September 26, 2017

September 26, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

All These Takeout Deliveries Are Getting Hard to Stomach

Investor appetite for Delivery Hero, Just Eat and co. won't be bottomless.

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September 7, 2017

September 7, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud and Chris Hughes

A Cable Billionaire Who Won't Take No For an Answer

Altice probably came out ahead on its SFR standoff.

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September 6, 2017

September 6, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

Intel Wins a Battle, But the War Goes On

Brussels won't be deterred by Intel setback.

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August 31, 2017

August 31, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

Bollore's Ugly Deal Gets Uglier

Vivendi's quixotic Havas takeover is getting expensive, too.

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August 30, 2017

August 30, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

RTL's Plot Twist

Not all broadcasters are equal in the face of the internet threat to revenue.

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August 29, 2017

August 29, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

Ad Land's Misery Spreads to TV

Investors are taking fright at European broadcasters' weaker ad sales.

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August 23, 2017

August 23, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

Madison Avenue's Amazon Problem

Faced with an online threat, consumer goods giants are paring spending.

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August 23, 2017

August 23, 2017

OpinionLionel Laurent and Leila Abboud

Investors Embrace An(Other) Unpopular President

French stocks overlook Emmanuel Macron's sliding popularity.

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August 17, 2017

August 17, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

Keep the Internet's Backbone Free From Censorship

Banning haters like The Daily Stormer is well-intentioned but dangerous.

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August 11, 2017

August 11, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

A French Billionaire Wants to Make Sweet, Sweet Music

Universal spinoff wouldn't be a surefire hit.

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August 10, 2017

August 10, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud and Chris Hughes

Taming the Cable Cowboy

A bid for Charter Communications isn't impossible, just extremely difficult.

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August 4, 2017

August 4, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

Pearson's Fate in Their Backpacks

Turnaround hinges on students' willingness to go on buying books.

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August 3, 2017

August 3, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

Neymar Is Less Greedy Than He Looks

Soccer wages have been remarkably consistent as a percentage of club revenue.

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August 2, 2017

August 2, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

IPhone Supplier Goes Stratospheric

AMS shows we should be careful about chipmaker euphoria.

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August 1, 2017

August 1, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

Macron Should Call a Billionaire's Bluff

Altice is promising to spend 15 billion euros on a French fiber network. France should tell him to go right ahead.

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July 28, 2017

July 28, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

BT's Endless Torment

These results won't do anything to bring investors on board.

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July 26, 2017

July 26, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

Game of Thrones Faces TV's Army of the Dead

HBO's monster hit is plagued by piracy, but it might as well just live with it.

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July 24, 2017

July 24, 2017

OpinionLeila Abboud

A Billionaire Grand Master Runs Up a Blind Alley

The departure of Telecom Italia's Flavio Cattaneo casts more doubt over Bollore's strategy.

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