Los Angeles Clippers chairman Steve Ballmer is paying $400 million in cash to buy the Forum arena from the Madison Square Garden Company, the LA Times reported Tuesday.
The deal allows Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO who paid $2 billion to buy the Clippers in 2014, to move forward with plans to build a new arena for the NBA franchise.
As the deadly coronavirus unnerves markets around the world and sends officials scrambling to prepare for a pandemic, retail giants like Amazon and startups alike are grappling with production slowdowns without a clear end in sight as the fast-moving virus spreads through Europe and the Middle East.
The Definitive Account of Amazon’s Ambition: Key Scenes From PBS’s Epic Investigation
The highly-anticipated PBS Frontline documentary about Amazon's historic 25-year ascension aired Tuesday evening. The two-hour episode, Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos, resulted from a year-long examination of the company's impact on society.
At every turn, Frontline uses facts, public records, and interviews with former insiders to question and in some cases debunk Amazon's time-worn responses to its critics related to issues such as worker treatment, privacy, and antitrust.