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Preparing our nation for 21st century challenges in the digital age


In early December of 2017, world technology leaders assembled in Wuzhen, China, for the 4th Annual World Internet Conference. It was a widely attended event and included the chief executive officers of Apple and Google. The theme of the conference was ...

21st Century Fox bid for Sky is provisionally rejected by UK regulator


LONDON — The media mogul Rupert Murdoch has long coveted Sky, the British satellite broadcaster, and he has made multiple attempts over several years to take over the company. On Tuesday, a British regulator beat him back, provisionally rejecting 21st ...

Baidu's Robin Li is Helping China Win the 21st Century


When Robin Li looks back at the question now, he can laugh. But things were different in 1992, when the Baidu CEO was a tongue-tied Chinese student applying for a computer-graphics graduate program in the U.S. The interviewing professor asked him, “Do ...

Patriots have seven biggest playoff spreads in 21st century


The New England Patriots are favored by 13.5 points against the Tennessee Titans ahead of Saturday's matchup in the Divisional Round of the playoffs. That shouldn't be a surprise to Patriots fans given their history. The Patriots had the NFL's best ...

21st Century Fox in Talks With Sinclair to Buy Tribune-Owned Fox Affiliate Stations


21st Century Fox and Sinclair Broadcast Group are in talks for a deal that calls for Fox to acquire a number of TV stations now owned by Tribune Media. The complicated deal is part of Sinclair's efforts to secure regulatory approval from the FCC and ...

Downtown Markham is part of city's 21st-century 'exciting story'


The future is now for Markham Downtown, the 243-acre parcel of land also known as Markham Centre. What could be dubbed Markham's 21st-century downtown, the area bordered by Highway 7, Highway 407, Warden Avenue and Kennedy Road is home to ...

OPINION: Global sustainability challenges in 21st century


"The technosphere is the brainchild of the USA scientist Peter Haff - also one of the co-authors of this paper. It is all the structures that humans have constructed to keep them alive, in very numbers now, on the planet: houses, factories, farms ...

Making Sense of 21st-century Fashion? Not So Fast…


Carrie Bradshaw. Kardashians. Designer jeans and going-out tops. “It” bags. Ath-leisure. High-low. How will early millenium style go down in fashion history? By Jessica Iredale on December 22, 2017. The year 2000 and the great anticipation — and ...

21st Century Oncology fine a big hit to Medicare: your say


I refer to the front-page story in The News-Press this week regarding yet another crime by 21st Century Oncology. According to the story, 21st Oncology agreed to pay a fine of $26 million to settle a Justice Department lawsuit. For a change, the ...

Disney Will Get More Vice After Acquiring 21st Century Fox's $70 Million Stake


Disney will be adding a little more Vice into its life. The media conglomerate will obtain 21st Century Fox's $70 million stake in Vice Media under the mammoth asset deal Disney and Fox announced Thursday, a rep for 21st Century Fox confirmed to Variety.

Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox for $52.4 Billion: What It Means for Deadpool, Fantastic Four, X-Men and the MCU


The Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday that it struck a $52.4 billion, all-stock deal to acquire 20th Century Fox and other assets from Rupert Murdoch's media empire. The transaction has a total value of $66.1 billion, with Disney assuming $13.7 ...

Disney Will Acquire 21st Century Fox For $52.4 Billion


21st Century Fox will spin off Fox Broadcasting, Fox News, FS1 and other assets to its shareholders ahead of Disney's acquisition. Photo Illustration: Dianna McDougall; Sources: Getty Images, Disney, 21st Century Fox. Share. By Jason Lynch. |. December ...

Disney to buy key 21st Century Fox assets for $52.4 billion


The Walt Disney Co. logo on a screen above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 7, 2017. CEO Robert Iger says the company will begin its own streaming service for Disney and Pixar movies in 2019. Disney CEO Robert Iger has made a grand ...

Disney Agrees to $2.5 Billion Breakup Fee if Regulators Block 21st Century Fox Deal


Disney has committed to pay a $2.5 billion breakup fee to 21st Century Fox if its $52.4 billion deal to buy most of Fox's film and TV assets is blocked by federal regulators. The agreement unveiled Thursday also provides for a breakup fee of $1.52 ...

Disney buying big chunk of 21st Century Fox in $52.4b deal


NEW YORK (AP) — Disney is buying a large part of the Murdoch family's 21st Century Fox for about $52.4 billion in stock, including film and television studios and cable and international TV businesses, as it tries to meet competition from technology ...

Disney Makes $52.4b deal for 21st Century Fox in big bet on video streaming


LOS ANGELES — Walt Disney Co. said Thursday that it had reached a deal to buy most of the assets of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., the conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, in an all-stock transaction valued at roughly $52.4 billion. While the ...

Disney bulks up with $52.4B 21st Century Fox deal


Disney CEO Robert Iger has made a grand addition to the house that Walt built. The Walt Disney Co. said Thursday that it had reached a $52.4-billion deal to acquire a huge swath of assets from 21st Century Fox, including the historic 20th Century Fox ...

Disney buys most of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion


December 14, 2017 New York—Disney is buying a large part of the Murdoch family's 21st Century Fox for about $52.4 billion in stock, including film and television studios and cable and international TV businesses, as it tries to meet competition from ...

Comcast 'No Longer' Pursuing 21st Century Fox Assets as Disney Closes in on Deal


All yours, Disney: Comcast has taken itself out of the running for Fox. As a matter of fact, the NBCUniversal parent company says it never even made the Murdoch Family-led corporation “a definitive offer.” “When a set of assets like Fox's becomes ...

Comcast Mulls Over Sky Buyout to Gain 21st Century Assets


Per a recent Bloomberg report, Comcast Corp (CMCSA - Free Report) is eyeing the takeover of Sky plc (SKYAY - Free Report) — a U.K.-based broadcasting company and European pay-TV provider. Comcast considers Sky's technological assets superior than ...

Shankar Named President, 21st Century Fox, Asia


Star India chairman and CEO Uday Shankar has been named president of 21 Century Fox, Asia. Shankar will be in charge of all of the companies video businesses across Asia. He will continue to serve as chairman and CEO of Star India. As part of a ...

Shares of 21st Century Fox Rise on Latest Report of Possible Disney Buy


Shares of 21st Century Fox rose moderately in early trading Tuesday after CNBC added new fuel to speculation that the Murdoch-controlled company would sell a significant chunk of its assets to the Walt Disney Co. It's the latest report to suggest ...

Uday Shankar to Head 21st Century Fox in Asia


Uday Shankar, currently head of Star India, has been promoted to become president of 21st Century Fox in Asia. As well as continuing at Star, he will lead 21st Century Fox's video businesses across all of Asia, including Star India and Fox Networks ...

21st Century Fox Restarts Talks to Sell Most of the Company to Disney


Walt Disney Co. (dis, +0.08%) has restarted discussions to purchase most of 21st Century Fox (fox, +0.00%), said those briefed on the talks on Sunday. The Financial Times reported negotiations are focused on Fox's film studio, cable channels such as FX ...

Disney Is Back in the Hunt for Parts of 21st Century Fox


Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox have re-started more serious discussions that could result in the owner of ABC and ESPN picking up pieces of the empire controlled by the Murdoch family, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, while Comcast ...

21st Century Fox's Lachlan Murdoch: Wave of Sexual Harassment Allegations Marks a 'Cathartic Moment'


Lachlan Murdoch, executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, said the tidal wave of sexual harassment charges against men in media and entertainment should lead to healthier working environments. “We're going through this cathartic moment as an industry ...

Comcast, Disney Keep Focus on 21st Century Fox Assets Despite AT&T-Time Warner Battle


Comcast and Disney are staying focused on the prospect of bidding for key 21st Century Fox assets despite the concern about the climate for media mergers raised by the Justice Department's decision to fight the $85 billion union of AT&T and Time Warner ...

Opera about Gold Rush shadows cast on 21st Century America


In a “Girls of the Golden West” pre-premiere conversation onstage at the San Francisco Opera House on Tuesday, Nov. 21, director/librettist Peter Sellars, along with longtime opera collaborator and composer John Adams, told dramaturg Kip Cranna they've ...

After Shareholder Complaints, 21st Century Fox Sets Workplace Council at Fox News


After a chaotic period of revelations of and complaints about sexual harassment and discrimination at its Fox News operations, 21st Century Fox said it had created a workplace council at the unit to advise senior management on matters ranging from ...

21st Century Fox Sets Up Anti-Harassment Panel


21 Century Fox has formed a Workplace Professionalism and Inclusion Council at Fox News in order to settle a lawsuit from a shareholder complaining about the way sexual harassment allegations against former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes and host Bill O ...

Google Offers Omaha a Path to 21st Century IT Efficiency


Now, DOTComm employees have mobile access to necessary technical support documents and the ability to send information, sometimes in the form of video, back to the main office. Security-wise, Google Cloud also offered a more robust spam filter that ...

In The Face of Cord Cutting 21st Century Fox Goes Up for Sale


Century Fox is in talks with 3 potential buyers including Comcast, Verizon, and Sony for a potential sale. This comes a week after it was reported that Fox and Disney have been in talks for a possible sale. It is ...

Sony Pictures Joins 21st Century Fox Hunt as Deal Talk Spreads Across Biz


The swirl of takeover talk around 21st Century Fox is only gaining steam as sources confirm Sony Pictures Entertainment has joined the list of companies making overtures to the Murdoch empire. 21st Century Fox surprisingly became a takeover target ...

21st Century Fox Shares Soar on Reports of Comcast Acquisition Overture, Verizon Interest


Comcast only has a tiny footprint overseas, but domestically it already ranks as one of the biggest cable programmers with USA Network, Bravo, Syfy, Oxygen, CNBC, MSNBC, E! and NBC Sports in the fold. Fox's international TV assets would greatly expand ...

21st Century Fox's Lachlan Murdoch: 'We Have the Required Scale'


21st Century Fox co-executive chairman Lachlan Murdoch defended the current scale of the media conglomerate Wednesday at its annual shareholders meeting — indirectly addressing recent speculation triggered by reports of a possible sale. “There's a lot ...

21st century will belong to India: Modi


IWAI hires expert technical support for projects at Haldia, Farakka · New divisions for Cyber security, deradicalisation come into effect · Air pollution: Kejriwal to meet Khattar on Wed · Metro stations to sell IITF tickets from tom · Probationers of ...

Cable Gains Power 21st Century Fox Earnings Despite Declines in Film, Broadcast TV


An 11% gain in cable affiliate revenue drove 21st Century Fox's bottom line for the quarter ended Sept. 30 even as the filmed entertainment and broadcast TV segments posted year-over-year profit declines. Fox hit Wall Street's expectations in ...

'The Simpsons' Predicted Disney Would Buy 21st Century Fox Back in 1998


What cultural phenomenon will “The Simpsons” prove true next? “The Simpsons” predicted that Disney would purchase 21st Century Fox, which was then known as 20th Century Fox, nearly two decades before the companies announced a $52.4 billion merger on ...

21st Century Fox held talks to sell assets to Disney: report


Twenty-First Century Fox shares spiked 9.9 percent Monday after a report that the company has talked to Disney about selling parts of its media assets. The talks between the two are no longer ongoing — but they could start up anew, according to the ...

21st Century Fox Has Reportedly Been in Talks to Sell Most of Its Company to Disney


The two companies have reportedly been in on-again, off-again talks for the past few weeks. Getty Images. Share. By Jason Lynch. |. November 6, 2017. Share. The number of big media companies could be decreasing by one: 21st Century Fox has been holding ...

21st Century Fox in Talks to Sell Most of Company to Disney, Report Says


Fox's shares rose 5.8 percent to $26.40 in afternoon trading in response. Disney's shares were up 1.2 pct at $99.86. The CNBC report said the two sides were not talking currently, but had held talks in the last few weeks, reflecting a view among Fox ...

21st Century Fox Shares Soar on Report of Disney Sale Talks


Shares in 21st Century Fox soared 9% on Monday following a market-rattling report from CNBC that the Murdochs have held talks in recent weeks to sell a large portion of their media conglomerate to Disney. CNBC's David Faber reported that the sale talks ...

China's Communist leadership has a model of totalitarianism for the 21st century


While the Trump White House wallowed in its usual trifling controversies, China's Communist leadership this month staged what will be remembered as the most important political event of the year, and maybe of the century so far. As the party Congress ...

Silver anniversary: Making the catechism shine in the 21st century


Pope Francis addresses participants at an encounter marking the 25th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church at the Vatican Oct. 11. The death penalty is "contrary to the Gospel," the pope said in his speech. (CNS/Paul Haring). Vatican City ...

CMA Outlines Review of 21st Century Fox-Sky Deal


The UK government has elaborated on the key issues it will be looking at in its review of 21st Century Fox's bid to buy the 61% of Sky that it does not already own. That came in an issues statement Tuesday (Oct. 10) from the UK's Competition & Markets ...

CMA Outlines Review of 21st Century Fox/Sky Deal


The UK government has elaborated on the key issues it will be looking at in its review of 21st Century Fox's bid to buy Sky Plc--actually the 61% it does not already own. That came in an issues statement Tuesday (Oct. 10) from the Competition & Markets ...

Cincinnati's historic Music Hall reopens: What's new, what's not — and how will it sound?


There's a long list of things that will be new to audience members at the reopening of Cincinnati's Music Hall on Oct. 6. There's a shorter list of things that are unchanged. Hanging over both lists and the 16-month, $135 million renovation of the ...

Compensation Falls for Murdochs at 21st Century Fox


Compensation for Rupert, Lachlan and James Murdoch fell at 21st Century Fox as the executives continued to earn the same basic salary as they did last year but took in fewer stock awards and pension benefits, according to a proxy statement filed with ...

21st Century Distributing Now Carrying Beale Street Audio


Century's dealers and their customers will benefit from the line's superior performance, warranties, customer support, and competitive prices.” Dealers can now purchase the full Beale Street Audio line from any of 21

Maysa can turn your favorite '80s karaoke song into a 21st-century protest anthem


Whenever a soul singer with a golden throat reanimates a rusty pop song, they often seem to be saying, “Listen to this” — and then launch into that thing like a rocket, belting it out and blowing it up. Maysa has precious-metal pipes, too, but when ...

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