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Harrison, New York
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Harrison is a village and town located in Westchester County, New York, approximately 22 miles northeast of Manhattan. The population was 27,472 at the 2010 census, Harrison was ranked sixth in the list of the top 10 places to live in New York State for 2014 according to the national online real estate brokerage Movoto. According to Forbes, Harrison is the 326th wealthiest place in the United States with a sale price of $1,230,625. Fundera ranked Harrison the best place in New York for small business, local custom holds that Harrison was given 24 hours to ride his horse around the area he could claim, and the horse couldnt swim or didnt want to get its feet wet, but this is folklore. In fact, the land below Westchester Path and along Long Island Sound had already purchased and partly developed by the settlers of Rye. The area that became Harrison had also sold in 1661 or 1662, and again in 1666, to Peter Disbrow, John Budd. Disbrow and Budd evidently lost their paperwork and the land was granted to Harrison. So upset were the people or Rye that they seceded to the Colony of Connecticut until 1700, harrisons Purchase was administered jointly by the settlers of Rye until it was incorporated as a town on March 7,1788, by an act of the New York State legislature. Merritts Hill in West Harrison was the site of the Battle of White Plains during the Revolutionary War, Regiment 182 of the Continental Army, of the 367 regiments there, was the Harrison Regiment, composed solely of people from Harrison. During the 1830s, David Haviland settled in Harrison where he produced Haviland China which he sold in his store in New York City before returning to his native France, in 1867 Benjamin Holladay purchased the land that is now Manhattanville College in Purchase. On the property is a Norman-style Roman Catholic chapel built for his wife, there is also Reid Castle, once called the Ophir House, before being renamed for a later purchaser. The castle hosted the King and Queen of Siam in the early 1930s, before that time, Harrisonites had to flag down the train to get a ride. Harrison remained generally free of factories through the Industrial Revolution, while large factory districts grew in the towns of White Plains, Port Chester. In 1929, the Hutchinson River Parkway was extended to Harrison, in 1967,200 residents stated support for a plan to incorporate Purchase, a community in Harrison, so that corporations could not build in the community. In response, officials from the Town of Harrison put forward plans to try to become a city to try to stop Purchase from seceding from Harrison, the resolution was for the Town became a hybrid Town / Village, which it remains today. John A. Passidomo was first elected Mayor in 1965 by only 67 votes, re-elected eight times, he served until 1983 when he resigned to become Commissioner of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. In his two and a half years at that job, he helped one of the nations first seat-belt laws despite the laws unpopularity. Harrisons Platinum Mile, a string of corporate office parks along I-287 in the Purchase section of Harrison, the mayor played an instrumental role in attracting large corporations such as PepsiCo, MasterCard and Texaco
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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University of California, Berkeley
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The University of California, Berkeley, is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. In 1960s, UC Berkeley was particularly noted for the Free Speech Movement as well as the Anti-Vietnam War Movement led by its students. S, Department of Energy, and is home to many world-renowned research institutes and organizations including Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Space Sciences Laboratory. Faculty member J. R. Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, Lawrence Livermore Lab also discovered or co-discovered six chemical elements. The Academic Ranking of World Universities also ranks the University of California, Berkeley, third in the world overall, in 1866, the private College of California purchased the land comprising the current Berkeley campus. Ten faculty members and almost 40 students made up the new University of California when it opened in Oakland in 1869, billings was a trustee of the College of California and suggested that the college be named in honor of the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley. In 1870, Henry Durant, the founder of the College of California, with the completion of North and South Halls in 1873, the university relocated to its Berkeley location with 167 male and 22 female students and held its first classes. In 1905, the University Farm was established near Sacramento, ultimately becoming the University of California, by the 1920s, the number of campus buildings had grown substantially, and included twenty structures designed by architect John Galen Howard. Robert Gordon Sproul served as president from 1930 to 1958, by 1942, the American Council on Education ranked UC Berkeley second only to Harvard University in the number of distinguished departments. During World War II, following Glenn Seaborgs then-secret discovery of plutonium, UC Berkeley physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was named scientific head of the Manhattan Project in 1942. Along with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley is now a partner in managing two other labs, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, originally, military training was compulsory for male undergraduates, and Berkeley housed an armory for that purpose. In 1917, Berkeleys ROTC program was established, and its School of Military Aeronautics trained future pilots, including Jimmy Doolittle, both Robert McNamara and Frederick C. Weyand graduated from UC Berkeleys ROTC program, earning B. A. degrees in 1937 and 1938, in 1926, future fleet admiral Chester W. Nimitz established the first Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps unit at Berkeley. The Board of Regents ended compulsory military training at Berkeley in 1962, during the McCarthy era in 1949, the Board of Regents adopted an anti-communist loyalty oath. A number of faculty members objected and were dismissed, ten years passed before they were reinstated with back pay, in 1952, the University of California became an entity separate from the Berkeley campus. Each campus was given autonomy and its own Chancellor. Then-president Sproul assumed presidency of the entire University of California system, Berkeley gained a reputation for student activism in the 1960s with the Free Speech Movement of 1964 and opposition to the Vietnam War. In the highly publicized Peoples Park protest in 1969, students and the school conflicted over use of a plot of land, then governor of California Ronald Reagan called the Berkeley campus a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters, and sex deviants. Modern students at Berkeley are less active, with a greater percentage of moderates and conservatives
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Emerging markets
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An emerging market is a country that has some characteristics of a developed market, but does not meet standards to be a developed market. This includes countries that may become developed markets in the future or were in the past, the term frontier market is used for developing countries with slower economies than emerging. The economies of China and India are considered to be the largest, according to The Economist, many people find the term outdated, but no new term has gained traction. Emerging market hedge fund capital reached a new level in the first quarter of 2011 of $121 billion. The four largest emerging and developing economies by either nominal or PPP-adjusted GDP are the BRIC countries, the next five largest markets are South Korea, Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. Iran is also considered an emerging market, in the 1970s, less developed countries was the common term for markets that were less developed than the developed countries such as the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. These markets were supposed to provide potential for profit. This term was thought by some to be politically incorrect so the emerging market label was created, emphasizing the fluid nature of the category, political scientist Ian Bremmer defines an emerging market as a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the markets. The research on emerging markets is diffused within management literature, more critical scholars have also studied key emerging markets like Mexico and Turkey. Julien Vercueil recently proposed a definition of the emerging economies. Catching-up growth, during at least the last decade, it has experienced an economic growth that has narrowed the income gap with advanced economies. Hence, emerging economies appears to be a by-product of the current globalization, at the beginning of the 2010s, more than 50 countries, representing 60% of the worlds population and 45% of its GDP, matched these criteria. The term rapidly developing economies is being used to denote emerging markets such as The United Arab Emirates, Chile and these countries do not share any common agenda, but some experts believe that they are enjoying an increasing role in the world economy and on political platforms. It is difficult to make an exact list of emerging markets, the best guides tend to be investment information sources like EMIS and these sources are well-informed, but the nature of investment information sources leads to two potential problems. One is an element of historicity, markets may be maintained in an index for continuity, possible examples of this are South Korea and Taiwan. In an Opalesque. TV video, hedge fund manager Jonathan Binder discusses the current, Binder says that in the future investors will not necessarily think of the traditional classifications of G10 versus emerging markets. Instead, people should look at the world as countries that are fiscally responsible, whether that country is in Europe or in South America should make no difference, making the traditional blocs of categorization irrelevant. Guégan et al. also discuss the relevance of the emerging country comparing the credit worthiness of so-called emerging countries to so-called developed countries
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American Express
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The American Express Company, also known as Amex, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattans Three World Financial Center in New York City, United States. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the company is best known for its credit card, charge card, and travelers cheque businesses. Amex cards account for approximately 24% of the dollar volume of credit card transactions in the US. BusinessWeek and Interbrand ranked American Express as the 22nd most valuable brand in the world, Fortune listed Amex as one of the top 20 Most Admired Companies in the World. The companys logo, adopted in 1958, is a Centurion whose image appears on the travelers cheques, charge cards. In 1850, American Express was started as an express business in Buffalo. It was founded as a joint stock corporation by the merger of the companies owned by Henry Wells, William G. Fargo. Wells and Fargo also started Wells Fargo & Co. in 1852 when Butterfield, American Express initially established its headquarters in a building at the intersection of Jay Street and Hudson Street in what was later called the Tribeca section of Manhattan. For years it enjoyed a monopoly on the movement of express shipments throughout New York State. In 1874, American Express moved its headquarters to 65 Broadway in what was becoming the Financial District of Manhattan, in 1854, the American Express Co. purchased a lot on Vesey Street in New York City as the site for its stables. A stable was constructed in 1867, five blocks north at 4–8 Hubert Street, in 1880, American Express built a new warehouse behind the Broadway Building at 46 Trinity Place. The designer is unknown, but it has a façade of brick arches that are reminiscent of pre-skyscraper New York, American Express has long been out of this building, but it still bears a terracotta seal with the American Express Eagle. In 1890–91 the company constructed a new building by Edward H. Kendall on the site of its former headquarters on Hudson Street. By 1903, the company had assets of some $28 million, to reflect this, the company purchased the Broadway buildings and site. The old buildings, dubbed by the New York Times as among the ancient landmarks of lower Broadway, were inadequate for such a rapidly expanding concern, after some delays due to the war in Europe, the 21-story neo-classical American Express Co. Building was constructed in 1916–17 to the design of James L. Aspinwall, of the firm of Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker, the building consolidated the two lots of the former buildings with a single address,65 Broadway. This building was part of the Express Row section of lower Broadway at the time, kenny, and Standard & Poors, who has renamed the building for itself. American Express extended its reach nationwide by arranging affiliations with other companies, railroads
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Providence Equity Partners
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Providence Equity Partners LLC is an American global private equity investment firm focused on media, communications, education and information investments. The firm specializes in leveraged buyout transactions as well as capital investments and has invested in more than 140 companies globally since its inception in 1989. The firm manages funds with over $45 billion in commitments, making it a global player in the private equity industry. The firm also invests in credit funds through its Capital Markets group and affiliate, Benefit Street Partners closed on a $1.75 billion middle market direct lending fund in April 2014. Providence was one of the pioneers of a sector-based approach to private equity investing. The firm’s sixth fund, Providence Equity Partners VI, closed on $12 billion in 2007, Providence is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island with five additional offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing and New Delhi. Providence is led by Founder and CEO Jonathan M. Nelson, Providence partners with companies across different stages in their development, from growth capital and complex recapitalizations of family-owned businesses to large buyouts and take-privates. The firm targets equity investments of $150 million to $800 million, Providence prefers to lead its investments, serve on company boards, and work collaboratively with company management. In 2008, Providence hired Thomas Gahan as president of the new capital markets group. Prior to joining Providence, Mr. Gahan was head of Deutsche Bank’s corporate and investment banking in the Americas, the credit platform has 18 investment professionals based in the firm’s New York office. Providence’s investments have included AutoTrader. com Group, Blackboard Inc, providence’s recent exits by sale or IPO include iQivi, Hulu, YES Network, Decision Recourses, MobileServ, Bresnan Communications, and Kabel Deutschland. In March 2013, Providence and the National Football League formed a partnership to invest primarily in sports. In September 2012, Providence sold a less than 10% stake in the firm to Florida’s state pension system, Senior Advisors that work with the firm on new investment opportunities and certain of the firm’s existing investments, include, Tony Ball Peter Chernin Richard D. Parsons Official website
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Malaria No More
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Malaria No More is a nonprofit organization that aims to end death caused by malaria. Malaria No More is known for its participation in the Idol Gives Back charity specials, at Malaria No More, we envision a world where no child dies from a mosquito bite. Malaria No More was established in December 2006 by Peter Chernin, entrepreneur and co-founder of Priceline. com Scott Case is the vice-chairman at Malaria No More since 2006. The nonprofit organization has a network of affiliate organizations in other countries such as Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands. This allows for the advocacy to rally public support and work with other grassroots groups such as the Mosquitoes Suck Tour to inspire students to get involved. Other organizations, such as Malaria No More continue distribution of more broad-based prophylaxis in Africa, the organization had announced tentative plans to close in 2015, based on the progress which had been made in its mission by 2011
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Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, in 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, Twitters origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a student at New York University. The original project name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr. The developers initially considered 10958 as a code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use. Work on the project started on March 21,2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9,50 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dorsey has explained the origin of the Twitter title. we came across the word twitter, and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds, and thats exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as a service for Odeo employees. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitters startup until 2011, Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007. Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview, With Twitter and they called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didnt replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is, Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network, the tipping point for Twitters popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000, the Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages, remarked Newsweeks Steven Levy
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Pandora Radio
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Pandora Internet Radio is a music streaming and automated music recommendation service powered by the Music Genome Project. The service, operated by Pandora Media, Inc. is available only in Australia, New Zealand, the service plays musical selections of a certain genre based on the users artist selection. The user then provides positive or negative feedback for songs chosen by the service, the service can be accessed either through a web browser or by downloading and installing application software on the users device such as a personal computer or mobile phone. In 2000, Pandora Media Inc. began as Savage Beast Technologies, the idea was to create a separate, individualized radio station for each user having just the good music on it, with none of the junk that other users like. The company quickly ran through its two million dollars in funding and in 2001 the company ran out of money. Founder Tim Westergren convinced the fifty employees of the company to work for two years without pay, initially the company pursued a transitional strategy of technology licensing to third parties including AOL, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, and Tower Records. In 2004 the company returned to its vision of producing customized radio stations. The website began as only a service but quickly changed to an advertising service to make it also available free for users. In 2011, Pandora launched its IPO on the NYSE and is listed as P, on March 7,2013, Pandora chairman and chief executive Joseph J. Kennedy announced that he would be leaving the company after nine years. In April 2013, Pandora announced that their radio streaming service had passed 200 million users, by December 2013, Pandora was noted as accounting for 70% of all Internet radio and 8% of total radio listening in the United States. On September 1,2013, Pandora removed a 40-hour-per-month limitation for free mobile listening, in December 2013, iTunes was described as Pandoras biggest existential threat. In early 2015, Pandora removed lyrics from song pages, on April 16,2015, song samples were officially removed. At around the time, a new feature was introduced to give users the ability to receive notices about their favorite artists through the music player. They also redesigned the thumbs up/down feature to allow the listener to undo their action, by January 2015, songs played on Pandora had received over 50 billion thumbs up from users. On June 11,2013, Pandora announced that it would purchase the conventional FM radio station KXMZ in Rapid City, on October 7,2015, Pandora announced that it has acquired independent ticketing agency Ticketfly for $450 million. In November 2015, streaming music service Rdio, founded by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstroem, declared bankruptcy, Pandora brought on 100 Rdio employees, including Iain Morris and Rich Masio—who joined a growing Licensing department in pursuit of direct licenses with labels and publishers. A station is set by specifying an artist or song, or a combination of items of any kind in a single station. Listeners can tune into pre-made genre stations, other users stations, each track played can be responded to with favorable or unfavorable buttons, which determine if it should be played, and how much should similarly classified songs be played in the station
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News Corp
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News Corporation is an American multinational mass media company, formed as a spin-off of the former News Corporation focusing on newspapers and publishing. On June 28,2012, Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corporations publishing operations would be spun off to form a new, the move also came in the wake of a series of scandals that had damaged the reputation of multiple News Corporation-owned properties. The logo of the new News Corporation was unveiled at a presentation on May 28,2013. The shares fell in price by 3% to $14.55 per share, the new News Corp began trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol NWS on July 1,2013, at the same time, the former News Corporation was renamed 21st Century Fox. The newspapers will be operated by GateHouse Media, a group owned by Fortress. Robert Thomson indicated that the newspapers were not strategically consistent with the portfolio of the company. GateHouse then filed for prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27,2013, then GateHouse emerged from bankruptcy on November 26,2013. On May 2,2014, News Corp acquired romance novel publisher Harlequin Enterprises from Torstar for $415 million, the deal closed on August 1, it is now operated a subsidiary. On September 30,2014, News Corp announced its acquisition of Move, Inc. a real estate listings company, a 20% stake is owned by REA Group, a publicly-traded subsidiary of News Corp Australia. In October 2015, News Corp sold its digital education brand Amplify Education to a management team supported by a group of investors for an undisclosed sum. HarperCollins, a book trade publisher News America Marketing, a distributor of advertising and coupon promotions Wireless Group
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DirecTV
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DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider based in El Segundo, California and is a subsidiary of AT&T. Its satellite service, launched on June 17,1994, transmits digital television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America. Its primary competitors are Dish Network and cable television providers, DirecTV provides television and audio services to subscribers through satellite transmissions. Services include the equivalent of local television stations, broadcast television networks, subscription television services, satellite radio services. Subscribers have access to hundreds of channels, so its competitors are cable television service, most subscribers use reception antennas which are much smaller than the first generation antennas, which were typically a few yards across. Advances in antenna technology, including fractal antennas, have allowed a reduction in antenna size across all industries. Receiving equipment includes a dish, an integrated receiver/decoder and a DirecTV access card. Consumers who purchase DirecTV subscribe to various packages of DirecTV programming for which the subscriber pays a monthly fee, additional monthly fees may include a protection plan, DVR, additional receivers, HD channels, and other premium channel packages. A subscriber also can order pay-per-view and video on demand events, all programming distributed by DirecTV is delivered to its broadcast centers in Castle Rock, Colorado, and Los Angeles, where it is then digitized and compressed. The resulting signal is encrypted by DirecTV to prevent its unauthorized reception, DirecTV then transmits these signals to several satellites located in geostationary orbit. As of the quarter ended September 30,2012, DirecTV U. S. had 19.981 million subscribers, for the same period, DirecTV Latin America ended with 9.666 million subscribers and revenues of US$1.577 billion. In addition to serving residences, DirecTV offers service to bars, restaurants, hotels, dorms, the company also offered mobile service for cars, boats, and RVs as well as aircraft in cooperation with Connexion by Boeing. On November 30,2016, DirecTV Now, an internet streaming TV service was launched, in 1953, Howard Hughes created the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, to which he transferred full ownership of Hughes Aircraft. Ostensibly created as a medical research foundation, HHMI was accused of being used by Hughes as a tax shelter. Following Hughes death in 1976, HHMI was incorporated in 1977, in 1984, the court appointed a new board for HHMI, which proceeded to sell off Hughes Aircraft to General Motors on December 20,1985, for an estimated $5.1 billion. General Motors then merged Hughes Aircraft with its subsidiary Delco Electronics to create Hughes Electronics Corporation, the new subsidiary was initially composed of four units, Delco Electronics Company, Hughes Aircraft Company, Hughes Space and Communications Company, and Hughes Network Systems. Stanley E. Hubbard founded United States Satellite Broadcasting in 1981 and was a proponent for the development of direct-broadcast satellite service in the United States. USSB was awarded five frequencies by the FCC, at the coveted 101 degree west satellite location, Hughes Communications, Inc. was also awarded 27 frequencies at the same 101-degree location
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E-Trade
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E-Trade Financial Corporation is a financial services company headquartered in New York City. It is an online discount stock brokerage firm for self-directed investors, investors can buy and sell such securities as stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds via electronic trading platforms or by phone. E-Trade Financial also provides banking services to investors, such as sweep deposits. As of December 31,2016, the company had 3.5 million brokerage accounts, in 2016, the company processed 164,134 daily average revenue trades. The companys primary offices are in Alpharetta, Georgia, Jersey City, New Jersey, Arlington, Virginia, Sandy, Utah, Menlo Park, California, and New York City. In 1982, William A. Porter and Bernard A. Newcomb founded TradePlus in Palo Alto, in 1991 Porter and Newcomb founded a new company, E-Trade Securities, Inc. with several hundred thousand dollars of startup capital from TradePlus. E*Trade offered its services via America Online and Compuserve. In 1994 its revenues neared $11 million, up from $850,000 in 1992, by June 30,1996, the company had 73,000 customers and processed 8,000 trades per day, with quarterly revenue of $15 million. In August 1996, the company executed an initial public offering, in 2001, the company acquired Web Street Securities, a publicly traded online brokerage firm, for $45 million in stock. Web Street had offices in Beverly Hills, Boston, Denver, in 2003, Toronto-Dominion Bank held talks to merge its TD Waterhouse discount brokerage with E*Trade, but the two sides could not come to an agreement over control of the merged entity. TD Waterhouse wound up merging with Ameritrade to form TD Ameritrade, after the merger, E*Trade continued talks to merge with TD Ameritrade but the two sides could not agree on price and governance rights. In August 2005, E*Trade Financial acquired Harrisdirect, formerly a discount brokerage service of Bank of Montreal, two months later, E*Trade acquired Brown & Company, formerly a discount brokerage service of JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $1.6 billion in cash. In July 2007, Etrade Australia, which was a separately operated company owned 6% by E*Trade Financial, was purchased by Australian ANZ Bank for $432 million and this resulted in a net $2.2 billion reduction in assets on the companys balance sheet. Citadel received a seat on E-Trade Financials Board of Directors and Mitch Caplan resigned as E-Trades CEO. Although E-Trades management admitted that the deal was costly for the company, it removed the risk associated with the subprime investments, in November 2007, E*Trade revoked the brand name license from SBI E*Trade Securities in Japan. In March 2008, E*Trade named Donald Layton, formerly JPMorgan Chase vice chairman, Layton had joined E*Trades board of directors in November 2007, at the same time as the Citadel deal. In July 2008, E*Trade sold its Canadian division to Scotiabank for CAD$444 million, in December 2009, Robert Druskin, a former chief operating officer of Citigroup Inc. was named interim CEO and chairman. The company also announced it would seek approval for a 1-for-10 reverse stock split
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Hulu
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Hulu is an American subscription video on demand service owned by Hulu LLC, a joint venture with The Walt Disney Company, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and as of August 10,2016, Time Warner. It is primarily oriented towards television series, carrying current and past episodes of series from its owners respective television networks, the subscription service is, in turn, divided into advertising-supported and mostly ad-free tiers. In 2016, Hulu spun out its content into a joint venture with Yahoo. called Yahoo. View and announced plans for a television streaming service some time in 2017. The name Hulu comes from two Mandarin Chinese words, húlú, calabash, bottle gourd, and hùlù, interactive recording, the company blog explains, In Mandarin, Hulu has two interesting meanings, each highly relevant to our mission. The primary meaning interested us because it is used in an ancient Chinese proverb that describes the Hulu as the holder of precious things and it literally translates to gourd, and in ancient times, the Hulu was hollowed out and used to hold precious things. The secondary meaning is interactive recording and we saw both definitions as appropriate bookends and highly relevant to the mission of Hulu. Key executives instrumental in the founding of Hulu include Bruce Campbell, Peter Chernin, JB Perrette, Michael Lang, Beth Comstock, the venture was announced in March 2006 with AOL, Comcast, Facebook, MSN, Myspace, and Yahoo. planned as initial distribution partners. Kilar was named the CEO in June 2006, the name Hulu was chosen in late August 2007, when the website went live, with an announcement only and no content. It invited users to leave their addresses for the upcoming beta test. In October, Hulu began the private beta testing by invitation, Hulu launched for public access in the United States on March 12,2008. The first product to launch was the HULU Syndication network, which was designed and developed by the NBC Universal team from New York, on October 29,2007, followed by the Hulu. com destinations site. Hulu began a campaign during NBCs broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII with an initial ad starring Alec Baldwin titled Alec in Huluwood. The ad intended to reveal the shocking secret behind Hulu. Advertisements have since aired featuring Eliza Dushku, Seth MacFarlane, Denis Leary, with its investment came a seat on the board of directors, where Providence was said to act as an independent voice on the board. In October 2012, Providence sold its 10 percent stake to Hulus media owners, ComScore says monthly video streams reached 903 million in January 2010, over three times the figure for a year earlier, and second only to YouTube. On August 16,2010, a report revealed that Hulu was planning an Initial Public Offering which could value the company at more than $2 billion. On June 21,2011, The Wall Street Journal reported that an unsolicited offer caused Hulu to begin weighing whether to sell itself
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Barack Obama
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Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to have served as president and he previously served in the U. S. Senate representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008, and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, two years after the territory was admitted to the Union as the 50th state and he grew up mostly in Hawaii, but also spent one year of his childhood in Washington State and four years in Indonesia. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago, in 1988 Obama enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, he became a civil rights attorney and professor, Obama represented the 13th District for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he ran for the U. S. Senate. In 2008, Obama was nominated for president, a year after his campaign began and he was elected over Republican John McCain, and was inaugurated on January 20,2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, during his first two years in office, Obama signed more landmark legislation than any Democratic president since LBJs Great Society. Main reforms were the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, after a lengthy debate over the national debt limit, Obama signed the Budget Control and the American Taxpayer Relief Acts. In foreign policy, Obama increased U. S. troop levels in Afghanistan, reduced nuclear weapons with the U. S. -Russian New START treaty, and ended military involvement in the Iraq War. He ordered military involvement in Libya in opposition to Muammar Gaddafi, after winning re-election over Mitt Romney, Obama was sworn in for a second term in 2013. Obama also advocated gun control in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning climate change and immigration. In foreign policy, Obama ordered military intervention in Iraq in response to gains made by ISIL after the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq, Obama left office in January 2017 with a 60% approval rating. He currently resides in Washington, D. C and his presidential library will be built in Chicago. Obama was born on August 4,1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu and he is the only President to have been born in Hawaii. He was born to a mother and a black father. His mother, Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss and his father, Barack Obama Sr. was a married Luo Kenyan man from Nyangoma Kogelo. Obamas parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the couple married in Wailuku, Hawaii on February 2,1961, six months before Obama was born. In late August 1961, Obamas mother moved him to the University of Washington in Seattle for a year
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Jews
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The Jews, also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites, or Hebrews, of the Ancient Near East. Jews originated as a national and religious group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE, the Merneptah Stele appears to confirm the existence of a people of Israel, associated with the god El, somewhere in Canaan as far back as the 13th century BCE. The Israelites, as an outgrowth of the Canaanite population, consolidated their hold with the emergence of the Kingdom of Israel, some consider that these Canaanite sedentary Israelites melded with incoming nomadic groups known as Hebrews. The worldwide Jewish population reached a peak of 16.7 million prior to World War II, but approximately 6 million Jews were systematically murdered during the Holocaust. Since then the population has risen again, and as of 2015 was estimated at 14.3 million by the Berman Jewish DataBank. According to the report, about 43% of all Jews reside in Israel and these numbers include all those who self-identified as Jews in a socio-demographic study or were identified as such by a respondent in the same household. The exact world Jewish population, however, is difficult to measure, Israel is the only country where Jews form a majority of the population. The modern State of Israel was established as a Jewish state and defines itself as such in its Declaration of Independence and its Law of Return grants the right of citizenship to any Jew who requests it. The English word Jew continues Middle English Gyw, Iewe, according to the Hebrew Bible, the name of both the tribe and kingdom derive from Judah, the fourth son of Jacob. The Hebrew word for Jew, יְהוּדִי ISO 259-3 Yhudi, is pronounced, with the stress on the syllable, in Israeli Hebrew. The Ladino name is ג׳ודיו, Djudio, ג׳ודיוס, Djudios, Yiddish, ייִד Yid, ייִדן, Yidn. The etymological equivalent is in use in languages, e. g. but derivations of the word Hebrew are also in use to describe a Jew, e. g. in Italian. The German word Jude is pronounced, the corresponding adjective jüdisch is the origin of the word Yiddish, in such contexts Jewish is the only acceptable possibility. Some people, however, have become so wary of this construction that they have extended the stigma to any use of Jew as a noun, a factual reconstruction for the origin of the Jews is a difficult and complex endeavor. It requires examining at least 3,000 years of ancient human history using documents in vast quantities, as archaeological discovery relies upon researchers and scholars from diverse disciplines, the goal is to interpret all of the factual data, focusing on the most consistent theory. In this case, it is complicated by long standing politics and religious, Jacob and his family migrated to Ancient Egypt after being invited to live with Jacobs son Joseph by the Pharaoh himself. The patriarchs descendants were later enslaved until the Exodus led by Moses, traditionally dated to the 13th century BCE, Modern archaeology has largely discarded the historicity of the Patriarchs and of the Exodus story, with it being reframed as constituting the Israelites inspiring national myth narrative. The growth of Yahweh-centric belief, along with a number of practices, gradually gave rise to a distinct Israelite ethnic group
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Unitarianism
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Unitarians believe that Jesus was inspired by God in his moral teachings and is a savior but a human being rather than a deity. Unitarianism is also known for the rejection of several other Western Christian doctrines, including the doctrines of sin, predestination. Unitarians in previous centuries accepted the doctrine of punishment in an eternal hell, Unitarianism might be considered a part of Protestantism depending on ones stance or viewpoint, perhaps it being described a part of Nontrinitarianism, or both, is more accurate. The Unitarian movement was not called Unitarian initially and it began almost simultaneously in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and in Transylvania in the mid-16th century. Among the adherents were a significant number of Italians, in England, the first Unitarian Church was established in 1774 on Essex Street, London, where todays British Unitarian headquarters are still located. In J. Gordon Meltons Encyclopedia of American Religions, it is classified among the family of churches. Unitarianism is a noun and follows the same English usage as other theologies that have developed within a religious movement. In that case it would be a belief system not necessarily associated with the Unitarian religious movement. Although these groups are unitarians in the sense, they are not in the proper sense. To avoid confusion, this article is about Unitarianism as a religious movement, for the generic form of unitarianism, see Nontrinitarianism. Recently some religious groups have adopted the 19th-century term biblical unitarianism to distinguish their theology from Unitarianism and these likewise have no direct relation to the Unitarian movement. The term Unitarian is sometimes applied today to those who belong to a Unitarian church, in the past, the vast majority of members of Unitarian churches were Unitarians also in theology. Over time, however, some Unitarians and Unitarian Universalists moved away from the traditional Christian roots of Unitarianism, for example, in the 1890s the American Unitarian Association began to allow non-Christian and non-theistic churches and individuals to be part of their fellowship. As a result, people who held no Unitarian belief began to be called Unitarians because they were members of churches that belonged to the American Unitarian Association, after several decades, the non-theistic members outnumbered the theological Unitarians. A similar, though much smaller, phenomenon has taken place in the Unitarian churches in the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries. Unitarian theology, therefore, is distinguishable from the system of modern Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist churches. This article includes information about Unitarianism as a theology and about the development of theologically Unitarian churches, for a more specific discussion of Unitarianism as it evolved into a pluralistic liberal religious movement, see Unitarian Universalism. Unitarianism, both as a theology and as a family of churches, was defined and developed in Poland, Transylvania, England, Wales
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English literature
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However, until the early 19th century, it only deals with the literature of the United Kingdom and Ireland. It does not include literature written in the languages of Britain. The English language has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years, the earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English. Middle English began in the late 11th century with the Norman conquest of England, early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London and the King James Bible as well as the Great Vowel Shift. Through the influence of the British Empire, the English language has spread around the world since the 17th century. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and ending soon after the Norman Conquest in 1066. These works include such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works. In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, from the 9th century, that chronicle the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The poem Battle of Maldon also deals with history and this is a work of uncertain date, celebrating the Battle of Maldon of 991, at which the Anglo-Saxons failed to prevent a Viking invasion. Oral tradition was strong in early English culture and most literary works were written to be performed. Epic poems were popular, and some, including Beowulf, have survived to the present day. Beowulf is the most famous work in Old English, and has achieved national status in England. The only surviving manuscript is the Nowell Codex, the date of which is debated. Beowulf is the title, and its composition is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known, and it is also one of the earliest recorded examples of sustained poetry in a Germanic language. The poem, The Dream of the Rood, was inscribed upon the Ruthwell Cross, Two Old English poems from the late 10th century are The Wanderer and The Seafarer. Classical antiquity was not forgotten in Anglo-Saxon England, and several Old English poems are adaptations of late classical philosophical texts, the longest is King Alfreds 9th-century translation of Boethius Consolation of Philosophy. After the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the form of the Anglo-Saxon language became less common. Under the influence of the new aristocracy, French became the language of courts, parliament
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Lorimar Television
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Lorimar, later known as Lorimar Television and Lorimar Distribution, was an American production company that was later a subsidiary of Warner Bros. active from 1969 until 1993. It was founded by Irwin Molasky, Merv Adelson, and Lee Rich, who named the company by combining their initials - LR, IM, and MA. Inspired by Adelsons ex-wife, Lori, an O was added as was a final R, the company was founded on $185,000 loan Merv Adelson gave to Lee Rich. Prior to Lorimar, Rich had a reputation, first as an advertising executive at Benton & Bowles, then as a television producer. Lorimar initially started producing movies for the ABC Movie of the Week. Rich bought the script to an adaptation of Earl Hamner Jr. s novel The Homecoming and subsequently sold the rights to CBS. The Homecoming, A Christmas Story, airing during the 1971 holiday season, was a ratings success, throughout the 1970s, Lorimar produced several other shows, as well, including Eight is Enough, of these, the most popular by far was Dallas. In 1980, Lorimar purchased the bankrupt Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, in 1984-85, three of the top 10 shows in the United States were produced by Lorimar, Dallas, Knots Landing, and Falcon Crest. In the mid-1980s, Lorimars output swung toward family-friendly sitcoms, among these were The Hogan Family, Perfect Strangers, and Full House, in 1985, Lorimar announced their intention to buy a 15% share in the then-troubled Warner Communications company. Around that same year, Rich left the company and moved to MGM, in 1988, Lorimar-Telepicturess production arm became Lorimar Television, however, the L-T distribution business remained until 1989. Lorimars distribution business was folded into Warner Bros, Television Distribution and became Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, since then, the Telepictures name has been resurrected as both a company, and once again as a syndication company. The former MGM studio lot was sold to Sony to house Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Lorimar continued as a production company until July 1993, when it was folded into Warner Bros. Television, for issues as a result of declining syndication sales. The last series to premiere under the Lorimar name was Time Trax, les Moonves was the president and CEO of Lorimar Television from 1990 to 1993. Moonves then became the chairman of Warner Bros, Television after the merger with Lorimar. Additionally, Lorimar has owned key components of the library of the defunct Allied Artists film studio, which includes Cabaret and Papillon. Animation-produced revival show aired on Cartoon Network for one season in 2011, Lorimar not only specialized in producing television programs, they also produced a number of theatrical motion pictures, most of which were originally distributed by other studios
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Showtime (TV network)
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The Showtime brand is used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to the group of eight multiplex channels in the United States. As of July 2015, Showtimes programming is available to approximately 28.693 million television households in the United States, the channel and its corresponding networks are headquartered at Paramount Plaza on the northern end of New York Citys Broadway district. The following week on July 8, Showtime launched on Viacom Cablevisions system in Dublin, California, the first program and television special to be broadcast on Showtime was Celebration, a concert special featuring performances by Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd and ABBA. By the end of its first year on the air, Showtime had a total of 55,000 subscribers nationwide. On March 7,1978, Showtime became a nationally distributed service after it was uplinked to satellite, turning it into a competitor with HBO, in 1979, Viacom sold a 50% ownership interest in Showtime to the TelePrompTer Corporation. On July 4,1981, Showtime adopted a 24-hour programming schedule,1982 saw the premiere of Showtimes first made-for-cable movie Falcons Gold and its first original series and childrens program Faerie Tale Theatre. The three companies announced their agreement in principle to acquire interests in TMC on November 11,1982. Subsequently, in late December of that year, the U. S. Department of Justice launched a preliminary inquiry into the proposed partnership. On January 7,1983, Viacom International added itself as a partner, under the revised proposal, the four studios would each own a 22. 58% stake in the two networks, with American Express owning a 9. 68% minority interest. In addition, the consortium would appoint a management team separate from those employed by the two channels – which would continue to operate as separate services – to operate the joint venture, on August 10,1985, after Time Inc. and cable provider Tele-Communications Inc. The subsidiary was renamed Showtime Networks, Inc. in 1988, also in 1988, the company formed Showtime Event Television as a pay-per-view distributor of special event programming. In 1990, Showtime ventured into acquiring and premiering independent films exclusively for the channel as part of the 30-Minute Movie short film anthology series. One of its first premieres,12,01 PM, was nominated for an Academy Award, in the years that followed, Showtime expanded its acquisitions into the realm of feature-length fare, including the Adrian Lyne-directed 1997 remake of Lolita. In 2000, Showtime launched Showtime Interactive 24.7, a service that provided DVD-style interaction of its entertainment offerings. On June 14,2005, Viacom decided to separate itself into two companies, both of which would be controlled by Viacom parent National Amusements, amid stagnation of the stock price. A new company assumed the Viacom name kept Paramount Pictures, the MTV Networks and BET Networks cable divisions. Showtime broadcasts its primary and multiplex channels on both Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules and this planned extension to the multiplex did not come to fruition – although a third multiplex service, Showtime 3, would make its debut in 1996. Three additional themed channels made their debut in March 2001, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next and Showtime Women do not have distribution by most pay television providers as extensive as the other Showtime multiplex channels
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The Movie Channel
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This article is about the American premium cable-satellite television network and sister channel of Showtime. For the unrelated, defunct television channel in the United Kingdom, for the programming format of television channels focused on movies, see movie channel. Not to be confused with the Canadian premium television service The Movie Network, the Movie Channel is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by the Showtime Networks subsidiary of CBS Corporation. The channel, along with its parent network Showtime and sister network Flix, are headquartered at Paramount Plaza on the end of New York Citys Broadway district. The Movie Channel traces its history to the development of Gridtronics, the video-to-cable movie delivery concept was presented by Fuqua and Stern at the 1969 National Cable Television Association Convention. TVC was purchased by Warner Communications in 1972, and gave the service the financial funding, Warner Communications launched the Gridtronics service on April 1,1973. Included among its initial offerings was the Warner Star Channel, a network developed as a vehicle to promote the Warner Bros. film library, Cable providers sometimes experienced technical problems trying to transmit the delivered tapes to viewers, especially when the tapes jammed during playback. m. Eastern and Pacific Time on weekdays and 8,00 p. m. on weekends, Eastern and Pacific, three hours before the transponder space reverted to use by Nickelodeon. On September 14 of that year, American Express reached an agreement with Warner Communications to buy 50% of Warner Cable Corporation for $175 million in cash and short-term notes. On December 1,1979, the network was relaunched as The Movie Channel, on January 1,1980, TMC discontinued its time-lease arrangement with Nickelodeon and became a 24-hour standalone service. At that point, TMC became the first premium channel to air R-rated films during the daytime hours, as the standard for television broadcasts in stereo was a few years away, cable operators had to simulcast the multichannel audio feed as an FM radio signal. Interstitial segments that aired during breaks between films for much of the 1980s included Behind the Scenes, The Heart of Hollywood, Reel Shorts, cities such as ONTV and SelecTV. In addition to the launch of Cinemax as then-HBO parent Time Inc, the three companies officially announced their agreement in principle to acquire interests in The Movie Channel on November 11,1982. Subsequently, in late December of that year, the U. S. Department of Justice launched a preliminary inquiry into the proposed partnership. On January 7,1983, Viacom International added itself as a partner and drafted an amendment to the proposal to consolidate The Movie Channel with the companys own competing premium service, Showtime. Under the revised proposal, the four studios would each own a 22. 58% stake in the two networks, with American Express owning a 9. 68% minority interest. In addition, the consortium would appoint a management team separate from those employed by the two channels – which would continue to operate as separate services – to operate the joint venture, on August 10,1985, after Time Inc. and cable provider Tele-Communications Inc. The subsidiary would eventually be renamed Showtime Networks, Inc. in 1988, hosts appearing on the channel between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s included Robert Osborne, Michelle Russell, Lauren Graham and Joe Bob Briggs
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St. Martin's Press
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St. Martins Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City, New York. St. Martins Presss current editor in chief is George Witte, Macmillan Publishers of the United Kingdom founded St. Martins in 1952 and named it after St Martins Lane in London, where associated press Macmillan Publishers was headquartered. Martins as well as some U. S. publishing houses, including Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Holt Publishers, and Tor-Forge Books. Authors published by St. Martin include Sherrilyn Kenyon, M. K. Asante, Charlotte Bingham, John Bingham, Dan Brown, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Ken Bruen, Augusten Burroughs and it also publishes the New York Times crossword puzzle books. In 1984, St. Martins became the first major publisher to release its hardcover books by its in-house mass-market paperback company
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News Corporation
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The original News Corporation or News Corp. was an American multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City. It was the worlds fourth-largest media group in 2014 in terms of revenue, board members include prominent former Spanish prime minister José María Aznar. News Corporation was a traded company listed on the NASDAQ. Formerly incorporated in Adelaide, South Australia, the company was re-incorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law after a majority of shareholders approved the move on 12 November 2004. News Corporation was headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York and its major holdings at the time of the split were News Limited, News International, Dow Jones & Company, the book publisher HarperCollins, and the Fox Entertainment Group. News Corp was created in 1979 by Rupert Murdoch as a company for News Limited. News Limited was created in 1923 in Adelaide, subsequently the controlling interest was bought by The Herald, in 1949, Sir Keith Murdoch took control of The Adelaide News. When he died in 1952, his son Rupert inherited a controlling interest in an Adelaide afternoon tabloid, News Limited operates today as News Corporations Australian brand, The Australian operating out of Surry Hills, in Sydney. News Ltd. made its first acquisition in the United States in 1973, soon afterwards it founded the National Star, a supermarket tabloid, and in 1976 it purchased the New York Post. In 1981, News Corp bought half of the movie studio 20th Century Fox, in 1985, News Corp announced it was buying the Metromedia group of stations, setting the stage for the launch of a fourth U. S. commercial broadcasting television network. On 4 September 1985, Murdoch became a citizen to satisfy the legal requirement that only United States citizens could own American television stations. In 1986, the Metromedia deal closed, and the Fox Broadcasting Company was launched and this network, known on-screen as Fox, can now be picked up in over 96% of U. S. households. In 1986 and 1987, News Corp moved to adjust the production process of its British newspapers, a number of senior Australian media moguls were brought into Murdochs powerhouse, including John Dux, who was managing director of the South China Morning Post. This led to a confrontation with the printing unions National Graphical Association and Society of Graphical, the move of News Internationals London operation to Wapping in the East End resulted in nightly battles outside the new plant. Delivery vans and depots were frequently and violently attacked, in 1993, News Corp acquired a 63. 6% stake of the Hong Kong-based STAR TV satellite network for over $500 million, followed by the purchase of the remaining 36. 4% in July 1995. Murdoch declared that, have proved a threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. In 1995, the Fox network became the object of scrutiny from the FCC when it was alleged that its Australian base made Murdochs ownership of Fox illegal, the FCC, however, ruled in Murdochs favour, stating that his ownership of Fox was in the publics best interests
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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20th Century Fox
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, the studio was formerly owned by News Corporation. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio. Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, the studios biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn, at first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called Fox-20th Century, even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck, the new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31,1935, the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President, Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Foxs longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a training school. The contracts included an option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary, however, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915. The companys films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their credits as well as its opening fanfare. Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studios leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple, favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO, while Zanuck went off for eighteen months war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by going for light entertainment. The studios—indeed the industrys—biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable, in 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Foxs output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like The Razors Edge, Wilson, Gentlemans Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and they also made the 1958 film version of South Pacific
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Titanic (1997 film)
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Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance-disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. Camerons inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks, production began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck. The modern scenes on the vessel were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh. Scale models, computer-generated imagery, and a reconstruction of the Titanic built at Playas de Rosarito in Baja California were used to re-create the sinking, the film was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. It was the most expensive film made at time, with an estimated budget of $200 million. Upon its release on December 19,1997, Titanic achieved critical and commercial success, with an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, Titanic was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark. It remained the highest-grossing film of all time until Camerons 2009 film Avatar surpassed it in 2010. A 3D version of Titanic, released on April 4,2012 to commemorate the centennial of the sinking, earned it an additional $343.6 million worldwide and it became the second film to gross more than $2 billion worldwide. In 2015, Titanic Live, an orchestra version of the film. In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team aboard the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh search the wreck of RMS Titanic for a necklace with a rare diamond, the Heart of the Ocean. They recover a safe containing a drawing of a woman wearing only the necklace dated April 14,1912. Rose Dawson Calvert, the woman in the drawing, is brought aboard Keldysh, in 1912 Southampton, 17-year-old first-class passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater, her fiancé Cal Hockley, and her mother Ruth board the luxurious Titanic. Ruth emphasizes that Roses marriage will resolve their familys financial problems, distraught over the engagement, Rose considers suicide by jumping from the stern, Jack Dawson, a penniless artist, intervenes and discourages her. Discovered with Jack, Rose tells a concerned Cal that she was peering over the edge, when Cal becomes indifferent, she suggests to him that Jack deserves a reward. He invites Jack to dine with them in first class the following night, Jack and Rose develop a tentative friendship, despite Cal and Ruth being wary of him. Following dinner, Rose secretly joins Jack at a party in third class, aware of Cal and Ruths disapproval, Rose rebuffs Jacks advances, but realizes she prefers him over Cal. After rendezvousing on the bow at sunset, Rose takes Jack to her room, at her request, Jack sketches Rose posing nude wearing Cals engagement present. They evade Cals bodyguard and have sex in an automobile inside the cargo hold, on the forward deck, they witness a collision with an iceberg and overhear the officers and designer discussing its seriousness
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Avatar (2009 film)
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The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Navi – a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The films title refers to a genetically engineered Navi body with the mind of a remotely located human that is used to interact with the natives of Pandora, Development of Avatar began in 1994, when Cameron wrote an 80-page treatment for the film. Work on the language of the films extraterrestrial beings began in 2005, Avatar was officially budgeted at $237 million. Other estimates put the cost between $280 million and $310 million for production and at $150 million for promotion, the film made extensive use of new motion capture filming techniques, and was released for traditional viewing, 3D viewing, and for 4D experiences in select South Korean theaters. The stereoscopic filmmaking was touted as a breakthrough in cinematic technology and it also became the first film to gross more than $2 billion and the best-selling film of 2010 in the United States. Avatar was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, following the films success, Cameron signed with 20th Century Fox to produce three sequels, making Avatar the first of a planned tetralogy. On April 14,2016, Cameron confirmed that there were now plans for four sequels, Avatar 2 was scheduled for release in December 2018 before being delayed, with the sequels following in December 2020,2022, and 2023, respectively. By 2154, humans have depleted Earths natural resources, leading to an energy crisis. The Resources Development Administration mines for a valuable mineral – unobtanium – on Pandora, Pandora, whose atmosphere is poisonous to humans, is inhabited by the Navi, 10-foot tall, blue-skinned, sapient humanoids who live in harmony with nature and worship a mother goddess called Eywa. Dr. Grace Augustine, head of the Avatar Program, considers Sully an inadequate replacement, witnessing an auspicious sign, she takes him to her clan, whereupon Neytiris mother Moat, the clans spiritual leader, orders her daughter to initiate Jake into their society. When Grace learns of this, she herself, Jake. Over the following three months, Jake grows to sympathize with the natives, while trying to warn the Navi, Jake confesses to being a spy and the Navi take him and Grace captive. Seeing this, Quaritchs men destroy Hometree, killing Neytiris father, Moat frees Jake and Grace, but they are detached from their avatars and imprisoned by Quaritchs forces. Pilot Trudy Chacón, disgusted by Quaritchs brutality, carries them to Graces outpost, to regain the Navis trust, Jake connects his mind to that of Toruk, a dragon-like predator feared and honored by the Navi. Jake finds the refugees at the sacred Tree of Souls and pleads with Moat to heal Grace, the clan attempts to transfer Grace from her human body into her avatar with the aid of the Tree of Souls, but she dies before the process can be completed. Supported by the new chief Tsutey, who acts as Jakes translator, Jake speaks to unite the clan, noticing the impending gathering, Quaritch organizes a pre-emptive strike against the Tree of Souls, believing that its destruction will demoralize the natives. On the eve of battle, Jake prays to Eywa, via a connection to the Tree of Souls. Quaritch prepares to slit the throat of Jakes avatar, but Neytiri kills Quaritch, humans Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, a disabled former Marine who becomes part of the Avatar Program after his twin brother is killed
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Fox News
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Fox News, officially known as the Fox News Channel, is an American basic cable and satellite news television channel that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. As of February 2015, approximately 94,700,000 American households receive the Fox News Channel, the channel broadcasts primarily from studios at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, New York. The channel was created by Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who hired former Republican Party media consultant and it launched on October 7,1996, to 17 million cable subscribers. It grew during the late 1990s and 2000s to become a dominant cable news network in the United States, Rupert Murdoch is the current chairman and acting CEO of Fox News. Fox News Channel has been accused of biased reporting and promoting the Republican Party, critics have cited the channel as detrimental to the integrity of news overall. Fox News Channel employees have responded that news reporting operates independently of its opinion and commentary programming, in July 1985, 20th Century Fox announced that Murdoch had completed his purchase of 50 percent of Fox Filmed Entertainment, the parent company of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. A year later, 20th Century Fox earned $5.6 million in its third period ended May 31,1986. Prior to founding FNC, Murdoch had gained experience in the 24-hour news business when News Corporations BSkyB subsidiary began Europes first 24-hour news channel in the United Kingdom in 1989, in February 1996, after former U. S. Republican Party political strategist and NBC executive Roger Ailes left cable television channel Americas Talking, Ailes demanded five months of 14-hour workdays and several weeks of rehearsal shows before its launch on October 7,1996. At its debut 17 million households were able to watch FNC, however, it was absent from the markets of New York City. Rolling news coverage during the day consisted of 20-minute single-topic shows such as Fox on Crime or Fox on Politics, interviews featured facts at the bottom of the screen about the topic or the guest. The flagship newscast at the time was The Schneider Report, with Mike Schneiders fast-paced delivery of the news, during the evening, Fox featured opinion shows, The OReilly Report, The Crier Report and Hannity & Colmes. From the beginning, FNC has placed emphasis on visual presentation. Graphics were designed to be colorful and attention-getting, this helped the viewer to grasp the main points of what was being said, Fox News also created the Fox News Alert, which interrupted its regular programming when a breaking news story occurred. To accelerate its adoption by cable providers, Fox News paid systems up to $11 per subscriber to distribute the channel and this contrasted with the normal practice, in which cable operators paid stations carriage fees for programming. Time Warner selected MSNBC as the news channel, not Fox News. Fox News claimed that this violated an agreement, citing its agreement to keep its U. S. City officials threatened to take action affecting Time Warners cable franchises in the city, during the September 11,2001 attacks, Fox News was the first news organization to run a news ticker on the bottom of the screen to keep up with the flow of information that day
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FX (TV channel)
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FX is an American basic cable and satellite television channel launched on June 1,1994, based in Los Angeles, California and owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC. FXs programming primarily includes original drama and comedy series, and reruns of theatrical films, as of July 2015, FX is available to approximately 94,006,000 pay television households in the United States. In addition to the flagship U. S. network, the FX name is licensed to a number of related pay television channels in various countries around the world, FX, originally stylized as fX, launched on June 1,1994. Broadcasting from an apartment in Manhattans Flatiron District, fX was one of the first forays into large-scale interactive television. FX had two taglines during this period, TV Made Fresh Daily and The Worlds First Living Television Network, the live shows were each mostly focused on one broad topic. Shows included Personal fX, The Pet Department, Under Scrutiny with Jane Wallace, other notable fX personalities included Karyn Bryant and Orlando Jones, who were panelists on Sound fX. The channel prided itself on its interactivity with viewers, FX, in 1994, was an early adopter of the internet, embracing e-mail and the World Wide Web as methods of feedback. Select viewers were allowed to spend a day at the apartment, the first incarnation of fX was not available on Time Warner Cable, one of the major cable systems in New York City, where its programming originated. TWC would not carry the channel until September 2001, the live shows gradually disappeared one by one until only Personal fX remained. Breakfast Time was moved to the Fox network and renamed Fox After Breakfast in mid-1996 and it underwent several format changes, but never found a substantial audience and was canceled less than a year later. By the time that all programming was dropped, the channel focused entirely on its classic television shows until its relaunch in mid-1997. Personal fX remained on the refocused FX until May 1,1998, FX vacated the apartment in the summer of 1998 and the channels operations were streamlined with the other Fox-owned cable channels. In early 1997, fX was relaunched as FX, Fox Gone Cable, during the first few years after its relaunch, FX was known for little else than airing reruns of such Fox shows as The X-Files and Married. With Children, as well as 20th Century Fox-produced shows such as M*A*S*H, the channel also added Major League Baseball games to its lineup at that time, and eventually expanded its sports programming to include NASCAR races in 2001. In the summer of 1998, FX debuted three original series, Bobcats Big Ass Show, Instant Comedy with the Groundlings and Penn & Tellers Sin City Spectacular, all three series were cancelled the following year. Soon after its relaunch, the Fox Gone Cable tagline was dropped, by 1999, new original programs were added with the debut of shows such as Son of the Beach and The X Show. Beginning in 2002, the channel emerged as a force in original cable programming, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for edgy dramas. That year, FX debuted the police drama The Shield, which became a breakout hit, both shows were lauded by critics, and achieved equal success with viewers
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Fox Sports Networks
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At the dawn of the cable television era, many regional sports networks vied to compete with the largest national sports network, ESPN. That same year, Fox purchased SportSouth from Turner and rebranded that network as Fox Sports South, on July 11,2000, Comcast purchased a majority interest in the Minneapolis-based Midwest Sports Channel and Baltimore-based Home Team Sports from Viacom. News Corporation, a minority owner in both networks, wanted to acquire them outright and integrate the two networks into Fox Sports Net, the company filed a lawsuit against Comcast ten days later on July 21, in an attempt to block the sale. Fox Sports Chicago ceased operations in June 2006, after losing the cable television rights to local professional teams two years earlier to the newly launched Comcast SportsNet Chicago. On May 4,2009, DirecTV Group Inc, despite Cablevisions sale of the networks, the channels continued to use Fox Sports Net/National Sports Partners in its copyright tag until 2008. On April 1,2011, DirecTV Sports Networks rebranded its FSN regional affiliates under the Root Sports brand, in 2012, FSN/Fox Sports Local relocated its headquarters from the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California to Houston, Texas. It was also in 2012 when FSN/Fox Sports Local was re-branded to its current branding, the FSN owned-and-operated networks were spun off along with most of News Corporations U. S. entertainment properties into 21st Century Fox on July 1,2013. FSN has often served as the ground for innovations in sports broadcast graphics developed by Fox. The Fox Sports Networks were the first U. S. sports channels to introduce a graphic to display the games score. Since FSN implemented with the banner graphic, many other major networks have abandoned the corner box graphic in favor of the bar. FSN first used the banner for most of its broadcasts beginning in 2001. For baseball broadcasts, a baseball diamond graphic was placed on the far left with the pitch count/speed on the right side. In mid-July 2003, Fox Sports Net adopted new graphics for its baseball broadcasts, Fox Sports Net would formally become known as FSN in September 2004. In mid-June 2005, the banner was given a cosmetic upgrade, the FSN logo at far right was also rendered in a black ovular shape with the region name rendered in white. It also phased in a package designed by Troika Design Group – however, in-game graphics still used the previous. From September 2012 to September 2013, Fox syndicated select college football games produced by the Fox Sports regional networks to broadcast television stations in some of these markets. Comcast Sports Net Mid-Atlantic resumed airing select Fox Sports-produced ACC games in 2013, however, as of 2015, most of Fox Sports Networks other programming is presently carried in the Baltimore and Washington, D. C. Fox College Sports also broadcasts high school and Independent Womens Football League games, Fox College Sports formerly partnered with Big Ten Network to provide programming
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FX Movie Channel
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FX Movie Channel is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. The channels programming consists largely of movies, primarily those from the 20th Century Fox, Twentieth Century Pictures, and Fox Film Corporation library. Since 2012, FXM has separated its film content into two blocks, with its main programming focusing more on recent films and its early-morning. As of February 2015, FXM is available to approximately 52,607,000 pay television households in the United States, the first movie to air on fXM was the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The channel officially changed to its name to Fox Movie Channel on March 1,2000, on January 1,2012, Fox Movie Channel adopted a hybrid programming format, with the debut of the time-shared service FX Movie Channel, effectively reviving the channels original name. As a result, films broadcast on the FXM block are edited to allow for commercial time, Fox Movie Channel still retained uncut and commercial-free broadcasts of its films. On January 1,2015, FXM deviated from its format for the first time. FXM – through FX – maintains movie licensing agreements with sister company 20th Century Fox. Entertainment, Universal Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, FXM provides a high definition simulcast feed that broadcasts the channels film content in the 720p resolution format, the companys default transmission format. Official website for FX Movie Channel Official website for FXM Retro Arabian Market Site
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National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)
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The channel airs non-fiction television programs produced by National Geographic and other production companies. Its primary sister network worldwide, including the United States, is Nat Geo Wild, as of February 2015, National Geographic Channel is available to approximately 86,144,000 pay television households in the United States. In September 1997, the first National Geographic Channels were launched in the United Kingdom, Europe, in July 1998, National Geographic Channel Asia was launched in partnership and distribution with STAR TV. Today, the channel is available in over 143 countries, seen in more than 160 million homes, according to people connected to the channel, it was first launched in the country due to the sales success of the magazine National Geographic. In the United States, the National Geographic Channel, launched on January 12,2001, is a joint venture of National Geographic Television & Film, National Geographic provides programming expertise and the Fox Networks Group provides its expertise on distribution, marketing, and advertising sales. In the same year a Latin American version of the channel was released, in Australia, National Geographic Channel is carried by Foxtel, Optus, Austar, Neighbourhood Cable, TransTV, and SelecTV. The Australian version includes Australian guest presenters of promotional material and to certain programs, series. In New Zealand, National Geographic Channel is broadcast on SKY Network Television, in South Africa, the channel is carried by Digital Satellite Television MultiChoices multi-channel digital satellite television service in Africa. In the Middle East, an Arabic version is broadcasting free to air on Nilesat as National Geographic Abu Dhabi and it is co-owned by the National Geographic Society/Fox International Channels and Abu Dhabi Media Company. In India, the channel was launched on July 1,1998, the 2000s, A New Reality, also narrated by Lowe, premiered on July 12,2015. On November 14,2016, National Geographic Channel was rebranded as National Geographic and it was originally composed in 1964 for the Societys television specials, which were broadcast on CBS, ABC, PBS and NBC from 1964 until the early 2000s. Designed to offer a music video channel for both international and smaller independent local labels with a focus on cultural lyrics and rhythms. Nat Geo Music became available in Italy on October 15,2007, Nat Geo Junior is available in Belgium, India, and the Netherlands and is formatted specifically for children. Nat Geo Junior is also featured as a block on the National Geographic Channel in Asia. The United States 720p high definition simulcast of the National Geographic Channel launched in January 2006 and it is available on all major cable and satellite providers. In Canada, the Canadian version of NGC HD launched on December 19,2006. It is available nationally via the two satellite services, Shaw Direct on channel 276, Bell TV on channel 828, Videotron on channel 754. In Australia, this channel has been available on the Foxtel HD+ service since July 1,2008, in Asia Pacific, this channel was the first channel to support 1080i HD and 5. 1-channel surround sound
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Speed (TV network)
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Speed was a sports-oriented cable and satellite television network that was owned by the Fox Sports Media Group division of 21st Century Fox. The network was dedicated to programming, including auto racing. An international version of the network, now known as Fox Sports Racing, concurrently launched in Canada, the Caribbean and the U. S. After it was acquired by News Corporation in 2001 and relaunched as Speed Channel, Speeds lineup consisted mostly of automotive-themed reality shows, NASCAR-related programs, along with news programs focusing on motorsports. Most of Speeds live event programming was carried over to Fox Sports 1, many of the programs once found on Speed can now be found in the United States on CBS Sports Network, MAVTV and Velocity, others not such as Speed Center. The network originally launched as Speedvision on December 31,1995, Speedvision also carried coverage of various minor and professional auto racing series, including the Sports Car Club of Americas World Challenge series. In the summer of 2001, the Fox Entertainment Group purchased a 30% ownership interest in Speedvision, in August of that year, Fox negotiated a deal to acquire the stakes held by Cox and Comcast, thus giving them majority control of the network. Speed Channel also added a weekly show in 2003, WindTunnel with Dave Despain. Starting in 2003, Speed began to carry NASCARs Craftsman Truck Series, the channel also offered coverage of practices and qualifying races in NASCARs main national series, the Gatorade Duels qualifying races, and the Sprint All-Star Race. In 2005, the name was shortened to simply Speed. Until late 2007, Speed also aired coverage of International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation events over the winter months – including bobsledding, luge and skeleton. Its winter sports coverage also included an annual charity bobsledding event organized by NASCAR driver and bobsled builder Geoff Bodine, universal Sports acquired the rights to FIBT events beginning in the 2007–08 season. By the late 2000s, these came along with an number of reality series. By 2008, Speed was carried in over 73 million households, the service was shut down in 2014. On October 12,2012, Fox Sports announced that it was unable to renew its contract to air Formula One racing on Speed after the conclusion of the 2012 season. On March 5,2013, Fox Sports announced that Speed would be shut down. The network began carrying Major League Baseball games and coverage of select post-season games beginning in 2014, however, all three finally agreed to terms to carry Fox Sports 1 three days before the scheduled launch. For any remaining television providers that did not reach a deal, Speed became available in Canada shortly after its U. S. launch
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Fox Reality Channel
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It was launched on May 24,2005 and was owned by the Fox Entertainment Group. It featured many shows that were originally on the Fox network, Fox Reality Channel also featured reality shows syndicated from other networks, as well as many international shows from the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. In October 2009, it was announced that Fox Reality Channel would be discontinued on most providers on March 29,2010 and re-branded as an American version of Nat Geo Wild. On that date, the old website was taken down and redirected to its archived programming on Hulu. com. Nat Geo Wild was launched on Dish Network on April 19,2010, direcTV removed Fox Reality and added Nat Geo Wild on June 30,2010. The program premiered in May 2007, and is shared with sister broadcast network MyNetworkTV, American Idol Extra, The official aftershow of the immensely popular American Idol. This show includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with contestants who have been eliminated, battle of the Bods, is a reality show in which five girls rank themselves in order of attractiveness and try to match the rankings of a panel of male judges. The program premiered January 19,2008, busted and Disgusted is an original series bringing viewers clips of the most outrageous behavior caught on camera. The show premiered on April 1,2009, friends who participated in this event included Toni Ferrari, Rebecca Cardon, Brennan Swain, Coral Smith, Nikki McKibbin, Michelle Deighton, and Jon Jonny Fairplay Dalton. Corkscrewed, follows American Idol producers Ken Warwick and Nigel Lythgoe as they purchase a vineyard in Paso Robles, California, the program premiered on November 30,2006. Has a group of seven former celebrities compete to win their own reality show, househusbands of Hollywood, follows the lives of five men who manage households in families in which their wives earn the majority of the household income. The 10-episode series premiered on Saturday, August 15,2009, long Way Down, profiles actor Ewan McGregor as he bikes through 18 countries, riding from John o Groats in Scotland to Cape Town in South Africa. Rob and Amber, Against the Odds, follows the lives of reality couple Rob Mariano and my Bare Lady, gives adult film stars the opportunity to try out different careers. The program premiered on December 7,2006, paradise Hotel 2, follows a group of single men and women who live together for a period in an exclusive resort. The program premiered February 4,2008 and was shared by MyNetworkTV, seducing Cindy, follows Cindy Margolis, once the most downloaded woman on the Internet, as she searches for a new love. The program premiered on January 30,2010 at 9, 00PM Eastern/8, solitary, turns the concept of solitary confinement into a game show. The program, which features an unseen host presiding over treatments, or challenges, the Search for the Next Elvira,13 contestants vie for the chance to become Elviras newest handmaiden of the dark in a Fox Reality Channel original series. The program premiered on October 13,2007, sex Decoy, Love Stings, set inside the private life and professional world of Sandra Hope and Mate Check Private Investigations
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Fox Entertainment Group
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The company is wholly owned and controlled by the American media conglomerate 21st Century Fox, which is owned and chaired by Rupert Murdoch, since the company acquired all the stock of Fox. The transaction was completed on March 12,2005, the division was part of the renamed 21st Century Fox after it had spun off its publishing divisions into the newly formed New News Corporation in 2013 as part of a corporate re-organization. It is named after William Fox, born Wilhelm Fuchs, who created the original Fox Film Corporation, jim Gianopulos is currently the chairman of Fox Entertainment Group, a position he shared with Tom Rothman until 2012. These stations would become the foundation of the Fox television network. Not long after the Metromedia deal was made, Murdoch purchased Daviss shares and News Corp assumed full control of the film studio, which was then placed within Fox Entertainment Group. In 1995, Saban entered into a joint venture with the Fox childrens television network to form Fox Kids Worldwide, in 1997 it was renamed Fox Family Worldwide. On July 23,2001, it was announced that Fox Family Worldwide would be sold to Disney from News Corporation and businessperson Haim Saban, on October 24,2001, the sale was completed. In September 2013, Fox Networks Group divided FX into two channels, with the new channel FXX leaning toward comedy shows and targeting younger viewers
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James Murdoch
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James Rupert Jacob Murdoch is an American businessman, the younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive officer of 21st Century Fox, and Chairman of Sky plc. He is the chairman and chief executive of News Corp. Europe and Asia, where he oversaw assets such as News International, publisher of The News of the World newspaper, SKY Italia, Sky Deutschland and he sits on the News Corporation board of directors and is a member of the office of the chairman. He was made Executive Chairman of News International in December 2007 He has since resigned from the post and he previously held a non-executive chair at British Sky Broadcasting, in which News Corporation has a controlling minority stake. In April 2012, he was forced to resign as chairman of BSkyB in the wake of the ongoing phone-hacking scandal, however he was reappointed Chairman of the company following its merger with its Italian and German sister companies to form Sky plc. He was formerly a vice president of News Corporation, the controlling shareholder of BSkyB. In May 2012, a highly critical UK Parliamentary report said Murdoch showed wilful ignorance of the extent of phone-hacking and found him guilty of an astonishing lack of curiosity over the issue. It went on to say that both Murdoch and his father, Rupert, should ultimately be prepared to take responsibility for wrongdoing at the News of the World, Murdoch is a British citizen by birth and a naturalised U. S. citizen. He lost Australian citizenship when his father became a U. S. citizen, Murdoch was born in Wimbledon, London, England. He is the fourth of multibillionaire media mogul Rupert Murdochs six children, as a youngster James was regarded as the brightest of the Murdoch children, but was also considered something of a rebel. Murdoch attended Horace Mann School in New York City and graduated in 1991 and he then studied film and history at Harvard University, where he edited underground magazines and drew a comic strip for the college’s famed satirical magazine, Harvard Lampoon. He dropped out of university in 1995 without completing his studies, with university friends Brian Brater and Jarret Myer, he backed the establishment of Rawkus Records, an independent hip hop record label. The company was bought by News Corporation in 1998, in 1996 Murdoch joined News Corporation and was appointed chairman of Festival Records. He also continued to contribute cartoons to U. S. magazine Gear and he is credited with sparking his father’s interest in the internet, and he reportedly tried to persuade his father to buy internet company Pointcast for US$450million. It was subsequently sold to another company for $7 million, after installing a new management team at Festival, Murdoch purchased the controlling 51 percent share of Mushroom Records in 1999, and the merged group was rebranded as Festival Mushroom Records. On 13 February 2003, James became a director of BSkyB, later that year, he controversially became CEO of BSkyB, in which News Corporation owns a controlling minority stake. Following the shock resignation of his brother Lachlan Murdoch from his positions at News Corporation on 29 July 2005. On 7 December 2007, Murdoch stepped down as CEO from BSkyB and was appointed chairman of the company
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Rupert Murdoch
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Keith Rupert Murdoch /ˈmɜːrdɒk/, AC, KCSG is an Australian-born American media mogul. His father, Keith Murdoch, had been a reporter, editor, after his fathers death in 1952, Murdoch declined to join his late fathers registered public company and created his own private company, News Limited. Murdoch moved to New York City in 1974, to expand into the U. S. market, however, he retained interests in Australia and Britain. In 1981, Murdoch bought The Times, his first British broadsheet, in 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, Murdoch consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. Murdochs News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox, HarperCollins, and The Wall Street Journal, Murdoch formed the British broadcaster BSkyB in 1990, and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000, Murdochs News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries, Murdoch faces police and government investigations into bribery and corruption by the British government and FBI investigations in the U. S. On 21 July 2012, Murdoch resigned as a director of News International, on 1 July 2015, Murdoch left his post as CEO of 21st Century Fox. Murdoch and his own both 21st Century Fox and News Corp through the Murdoch Family Trust. In July 2016, after the resignation of Roger Ailes due to accusations of sexual harassment, Keith Rupert Murdoch was born on 11 March 1931 in Melbourne to Sir Keith Murdoch and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. He is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, Murdochs parents were also born in Melbourne. Keith Murdoch was a war correspondent and later a newspaper magnate owning two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town. Later in life, Keith Rupert chose to use Rupert, the first name of his maternal grandfather. Keith Murdoch the elder asked to meet with his wife after seeing her debutante photograph in one of his own newspapers and they married in 1928. In addition to Rupert, the couple had three daughters, Janet Calvert-Jones, Anne Kantor and Helen Handbury, Murdoch attended Geelong Grammar School, where he was co-editor of the schools official journal The Corian and editor of the student journal If Revived. He took his schools cricket team to the National Junior Finals and he worked part-time at the Melbourne Herald and was groomed by his father to take over the family business. After her husbands death from cancer in 1952, Elisabeth Murdoch did charity work, as governor of the Royal Womens Hospital in Melbourne. At the age of 102, she had 74 descendants, Murdoch completed an MA before working as a sub-editor with the Daily Express for two years. Following his fathers death, when he was 21, Murdoch returned from Oxford to take charge of the family business News Limited, Rupert Murdoch turned its newspaper, Adelaide News, its main asset, into a major success
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The Wall Street Journal
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The Wall Street Journal is an American business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The Journal, along with its Asian and European editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, the newspaper is published in the broadsheet format and online. The Wall Street Journal is the largest newspaper in the United States by circulation, according to the Alliance for Audited Media, the Journal had a circulation of about 2.4 million copies as of March 2013, compared with USA Todays 1.7 million. The newspaper has won 39 Pulitzer Prizes through 2015 and derives its name from Wall Street in the heart of the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. The Journal has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8,1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, the Journal also publishes the luxury news and lifestyle magazine WSJ. They were later aggregated in a daily summary called the Customers Afternoon Letter. In 1896, The Dow Jones Industrial Average was officially launched and it was the first of several indices of stock and bond prices on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1899, the Journals Review & Outlook column, which still today, appeared for the first time. Journalist Clarence Barron purchased control of the company for US$130,000 in 1902, circulation was then around 7,000, Barron and his predecessors were credited with creating an atmosphere of fearless, independent financial reporting—a novelty in the early days of business journalism. In 1921, Barrons, Americas premier financial weekly, was founded, Barron died in 1928, a year before Black Tuesday, the stock market crash that greatly affected the Great Depression in the United States. Barrons descendants, the Bancroft family, would continue to control the company until 2007, the Journal took its modern shape and prominence in the 1940s, a time of industrial expansion for the United States and its financial institutions in New York. Bernard Kilgore was named managing editor of the paper in 1941, under Kilgore, in 1947, that the paper won its first Pulitzer Prize, for William Henry Grimess editorials. In 1970, Dow Jones bought the Ottaway newspaper chain, which at the time comprised nine dailies, later, the name was changed to Dow Jones Local Media Group. In 2007 News Corp. acquired Dow Jones, a luxury lifestyle magazine, was launched in 2008. A complement to the print newspaper, The Wall Street Journal Online, was launched in 1996, in 2003, Dow Jones began to integrate reporting of the Journals print and online subscribers together in Audit Bureau of Circulations statements. In 2007, it was believed to be the largest paid-subscription news site on the Web. Since then, online subscribership has fallen, due in part to rising subscription costs, in May 2008, an annual subscription to the online edition of The Wall Street Journal cost $119 for those who do not have subscriptions to the print edition. By June 2013, the monthly cost for a subscription to the edition was $22.99, or $275.88 annually
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Tribune Media
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The Tribune Media Company, also known as Tribune Media and formerly known as the Tribune Company, is an American conglomerate that is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. A significant amount of the stock of publicly traded Tribune is held by three firms that were the senior debt holders, Oaktree Capital Management, Angelo, Gordon & Co. Investment interests include the Food Network, the Tribune Company was founded on June 10,1847, the Chicago Daily Tribune published its first edition in a one-room plant located at LaSalle and Lake Streets in downtown Chicago. The original press run consisted of 400 copies printed on a hand press, the Tribune constructed its first building, a four-story structure at Dearborn and Madison Streets, in 1869. The building was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of October 1871, the Tribune resumed printing two days later with an editorial declaring Chicago Shall Rise Again. Joseph Medill, a native Ohioan who first acquired an interest in the Tribune in 1855, gained control of the newspaper in 1874. Medills two grandsons, cousins Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, assumed leadership of the company in 1911 and that same year, the Chicago Tribunes first newsprint mill opened in Thorold, Ontario, Canada. The mill marked the beginnings of the Canadian newsprint producer later known as QUNO, Patterson established the companys second newspaper, the New York News in 1919. Tribunes ownership of the New York City tabloid was considered interlocking due to an agreement between McCormick and Patterson, the paper launched a European edition during World War I. To compete with the Saturday Evening Post and Colliers in 1924, the company entered broadcasting in 1924 by leasing WDAP, one of Chicagos first radio stations. Tribune later changed the call letters to WGN, reflecting the Tribunes nickname. WGN was purchased by the company in 1926 and went on to be first in the radio industry, in 1925, the company completed its new headquarters and one of Chicagos first skyscrapers, the Tribune Tower. That same year, the decided to fund the future Joseph Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Liberty magazine eventually exceeded Colliers circulation, but lacked enough advertising and was sold in 1931, the Tribunes European edition was also cut. However, Tribune launched the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate content syndication service in 1933, expecting a printers strike in November 1948, the Tribune printed their paper early, incorrectly proclaiming Dewey Defeats Truman in the 1948 presidential election. Tribune entered into the industry, then in its infancy, in 1948, with the establishments of WGN-TV in Chicago in April. In 1956, the Tribune Company purchased the Chicago American from William Randolph Hearst, also in 1963, the company purchased some part of the folded New York Mirror. The company increased its broadcast station holdings with the acquisition of radio station WQCD-FM in New York City in 1964, in 1967, the company began printing a tabloid serving suburban areas of Chicago, The Suburban Trib
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Yahoo!
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Yahoo Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2,1995, Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, Google Employee number 20 and it is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo. Search, and related services, including Yahoo, answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports, and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States, according to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month. Yahoo itself claims it attracts more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages, in January 1994 Yang and Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, when they created a website named Jerry and Davids guide to the World Wide Web. The site was a directory of websites, organized in a hierarchy. In March 1994, Jerry and Davids Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed Yahoo, the yahoo. com domain was created on January 18,1995. The word yahoo is a backronym for Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle or Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, the term hierarchical described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. However, Filo and Yang insist they mainly selected the name because they liked the definition of a yahoo, rude, unsophisticated. This meaning derives from the Yahoo race of beings from Gullivers Travels. Yahoo grew rapidly throughout the 1990s, like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal. By 1998, Yahoo was the most popular starting point for web users and it also made many high-profile acquisitions. Its stock price skyrocketed during the bubble, Yahoo stocks closing at an all-time high of $118.75 a share on January 3,2000. However, after the bubble burst, it reached a post-bubble low of $8.11 on September 26,2001. Yahoo began using Google for search in 2000, over the next four years, it developed its own search technologies, which it began using in 2004. In response to Googles Gmail, Yahoo began to offer unlimited email storage in 2007, the company struggled through 2008, with several large layoffs. In February 2008, Microsoft Corporation made a bid to acquire Yahoo for $44.6 billion
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Carol Bartz
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Bartz was born in Winona, Minnesota, the daughter of Shirley Ann and Virgil Julius Bartz. Her mother died when Carol was eight years old, a few years later, she and her younger brother, Jim, moved from Minnesota across the Mississippi River to the home of their grandmother, Alice, on a dairy farm near Alma, Wisconsin. In high school, Bartz did well in mathematics, and was also homecoming queen, while in college, she supported herself as a cocktail waitress. Bartz also has two brothers and two half sisters all living in Wisconsin and Minnesota. In 1976, Bartz went to work at the manufacturing conglomerate 3M, Bartz moved on to the computer industry, including jobs at Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems. She became CEO of Autodesk in 1992, according to Forbes, Bartz transformed Autodesk from an aimless maker of PC software into a leader of computer-aided design software, targeting architects and builders. She stepped down as CEO in 2006 and became the chairman of the board. Bartz served on boards of directors, including those of Intel, Cisco Systems, Autodesk, BEA Systems, Network Appliance. Additionally, she has been a member of the United States Presidents Council of Advisors on Science, on January 13,2009, Bartz was named CEO of Yahoo. The Internet services company which operated the fourth most-visited Web domain name in the world, during a conference call with financial analysts later in January 2009, she announced her intention to make sure Yahoo. got some friggin breathing room so the company could kick some butt. Rob Hof of Business Week was skeptical that Bartz or anyone else could save the company and its not yet clear if Bartz can turn Yahoo around no matter how good she may be. Yet broad support remains for Bartz despite the tough talk, canceled holiday parties, with a new round of job layoffs and the removal of a number of Yahoo. Bartz was also quoted to have said that she would drop-kick to fucking Mars employees who leak to the press, everything is on a need-to-know basis. At her one-year mark at Yahoo in January 2010, Bartz gave herself a B- grade for the job done in 2009, I did move fast, but this is a big job. Others in the media, however, rated her job higher given the challenges she had to manage, when Bartz was hired by Yahoo in early 2009, she was paid an annual base salary of $1 million. She was eligible for an annual 400% bonus and received 5,000,000 shares in addition to an equity grant of $18 million of stock, in 2010 Bartz was named “most overpaid” CEO by proxy voting firm Glass-Lewis when she received $47.2 million in compensation. On September 6,2011, Bartz was removed from her position at Yahoo. Bartz expressed her desire to remain on the Board of Directors. However, on September 9,2011, Bartz resigned from the companys Board of Directors, Bartz has been a member of eight public company boards in the last 20 years
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Fullscreen (company)
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Fullscreen, Inc. is a global network of content creators and brands on YouTube owned by Otter Media, a joint venture of AT&T and The Chernin Group. It is an independent YouTube network based on unique viewers according to comScore Video Metrix, Fullscreen offers tools, services, and consultation to its members. As of September 22,2014, Fullscreen, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Otter Media, Fullscreen acquired social media creative studio, McBeard, in May 2015. In addition to the network, Fullscreen also provides a channel management and optimization service for brands. The premium service, which includes a suite of software tools and consultation on programming strategy, is designed to build audience. Fullscreen’s current clients include NBCUniversal, FOX, FremantleMedia, JASH, Fine Brothers Entertainment, Rooster Teeth, WIGS, Fullscreen was founded on January 2011 by CEO George Strompolos, who hired Ezra Cooperstein as Fullscreen’s COO. Previously an executive at Google/YouTube, Strompolos was responsible for establishing distribution partnerships with new media companies and he co-created and developed YouTube’s Partnership Program that has developed a new class of content producers around the world. Peter Chernin was a partner and advisor since Fullscreen’s inception. In September of 2016, Fullscreen subsidiary McBeard acquired Channel Plus and changed its name to Video Labs, in November 2015, Andy Forssell joined the company as COO. He will oversee Fullscreens three business divisions and also join Fullscreens board, on November 30,2012, Fullscreen launched their Million Dollar Creator Fund committing one million dollars worth of advertising and promotion to their creators. Shane and Friends Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig Filthy Preppy Teen$ Dr. Havocs Diary Zall Good with Alexis G. v. Fullscreen Inc
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Tumblr
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Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Yahoo. since 2013. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog, Users can follow other users blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private, for bloggers, many of the websites features are accessed from a dashboard interface. As of April 1,2017, Tumblr hosts over 341.8 million blogs, as of January 2016, the website had 555 million monthly visitors. Development of Tumblr began in 2006 during a gap between contracts at David Karps software consulting company, Davidville. Karp had been interested in tumblelogs for some time and was waiting for one of the established blogging platforms to introduce their own tumblelogging platform, as no one had done so after a year of waiting, Karp and developer Marco Arment began working on their own tumblelogging platform. Tumblr was launched in February 2007 and within two weeks, the service had gained 75,000 users, Arment left the company in September 2010 to focus on Instapaper. In early June 2012, Tumblr featured its first major advertising campaign in conjunction with Adidas. Adidas launched an official soccer Tumblr blog and bought placements on the user dashboard and this launch was only two months after Tumblr announced it would be moving towards paid advertising on its site. On May 20,2013, it was announced that Yahoo. many of Tumblrs users were unhappy with the news, causing some to start a petition, achieving nearly 170,000 signatures. David Karp remained CEO and the deal was finalized on June 20,2013, Dashboard, The dashboard is the primary tool for the typical Tumblr user. It is a feed of recent posts from blogs that they follow. Through the dashboard, users are able to comment, reblog, the dashboard allows the user to upload text posts, images, video, quotes, or links to their blog with a click of a button displayed at the top of the dashboard. Users are also able to connect their blogs to their Twitter and Facebook accounts, so whenever they make a post, it also be sent as a tweet. Queue, Users are able to set up a schedule to delay posts that they make and they can spread their posts over several hours or even days. Tags, Users can help their audience find posts about certain topics by adding tags, HTML editing, Tumblr allows users to edit their blogs theme HTML coding to control the appearance of their blog. Users are also able to use a domain name for their blog. With Tumblrs 2009 acquisition of Tumblerette, an iOS application created by Jeff Rock and Garrett Ross, the site became available to BlackBerry smartphones on April 17,2010 via a Mobelux application in BlackBerry World
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Flipboard
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Flipboard is a news aggregation and social network aggregation company based in Palo Alto, California, with offices in New York, Vancouver and Bejiing. Its software, also known as Flipboard, was first released in July 2010, readers can also save stories into Flipboard magazines. As of March 2016 the company claims there have been 28 million magazines created by users on Flipboard, the service can be accessed via web browser, or by a Flipboard application for Microsoft Windows and macOS, and via mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. The client software is available at no charge and is localized in 21 languages and its current headquarters is located at 735 Emerson St, Palo Alto, CA94301, recently moving from a nearby building. Flipboard was originally launched for Apple Inc. s iPad in 2010, later that year it launched on the iPhone and iPod Touch. On May 5,2012, Flipboard was released for Android phones, on May 30,2012 a beta version of Flipboard for Android was released through its website. A final stable release of the Flipboard for Android was released on June 22,2012 in Google Play, the Windows 8 version of the Flipboard app was also demonstrated during the Microsoft 2013 Build Conference and on the Flipboard blog with video, although no release date was given. On October 22,2014, Flipboard for Windows 8 was rolled out to Windows Phone devices starting with the Nokia Lumia 2520, in March 2014, Flipboard bought Zite, a magazine-style reading app, from the CNN television network. Flipboards content filtering, topic engine and recommendations system was integrated from this acquisition, Zite was shut down on December 7,2015. In February 2015, Flipboard became available on the web, up until then, Flipboard was a mobile app, only available on tablets and mobile phones. The web client provides webpage links on desktop browsers, and lacks some features of the client software, in February 2017, Flipboard updated their mobile apps for iOS and Android to 4. The reaction to the application was mainly positive, with Techpad calling it a killer iPad application, Apple reviewed Flipboard positively, and named the application Apples iPad App of the Year in 2010. On May 15,2011, Flipboard was blocked by the Great Firewall of China, mcCue said on his Twitter feed – China has now officially blocked Flipboard. The company then released its first edition localised for China, beginning in February 2015, the company started self-censoring users using the application from China. The content guide for China does not include Twitter and Facebook anymore, existing subscriptions for Twitter or Facebook are also automatically removed. The applications user interface is designed for intuitive flipping through content, once the feeds have been set up, the first page seen when the application is opened is a list of the subscribed content. The iPhone and Android versions have a Cover Stories section on the first page collating only the most recent, important items from all of the subscriptions and this is meant to be read when the user only has a short period of time for reading. Comparison of feed aggregators List of most downloaded Android applications Richmond, Flipboard, The Closest Thing Ive Seen to the Future of Magazines
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New Girl
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New Girl is an American sitcom television series that premiered on Fox on September 20,2011. The show combines comedy and drama elements as the characters, who are in their thirties, deal with maturing relationships. The sixth season premiered on September 20,2016, produced in Los Angeles as a single-camera comedy, New Girl is an ensemble show aimed at a general audience. Most episodes are anchored around Jess, who according to series creator, Meriwether, the shows first marketing push was on Zooey Deschanel and the promotional tagline Simply Adorkable, a portmanteau of adorable and dork. The producers rejected early criticism of Jess girlishness, insisting that Jess was not meant to be emblematic of all women, instead, they aim to portray realistic, emotionally driven characters, and to approach the show from that angle rather than simply firing off punchlines. New Girl has received favorable responses from critics, who named the one of the best new comedies of the 2011 fall season. The pilot episode drew 10.28 million U. S. viewers, particular praise has been given to the performances of Deschanel, Greenfield, Johnson and Morris. Max Greenfield was considered the breakout star in season 1. The show has nominated for several awards, including five Golden Globe Awards. Jessica Jess Christopher Day is a young woman who teaches at a Los Angeles middle school. Jess comes home to find her boyfriend, Spencer, with another woman and leaves him immediately and she answers an ad for a new roommate on Craigslist, and moves in with three young men, Nick, Schmidt, and Coach. After the pilot episode, Winston, who had lived in the apartment with Nick and Schmidt. Cece, Jessicas childhood best friend and a fashion model. Coach returns to the loft in season 3 after revealing that he had broken up with Malia, the principal cast of New Girl includes, Zooey Deschanel as Jessica Jess Christopher Day, a bubbly, offbeat teacher in her early thirties who is originally from Portland, Oregon. In the pilot episode, she moves into the apartment where Nick, Schmidt. Jake Johnson as Nicholas Nick Miller, a slacker and grumpy young man who is originally from Chicago. He is introduced as a law school drop-out who supports himself by working as a bartender, Nick completes writing his first book in season six. Max Greenfield as Winston Saint-Marie Schmidt, a confident, Jewish ladies man who is originally from Long Island
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Touch (TV series)
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Touch is an American drama television series that ran on Fox from January 25,2012, to May 10,2013. The series was created by Tim Kring and starred Kiefer Sutherland, during its first season the series aired regularly on Thursday nights beginning March 22,2012. Thirteen episodes were ordered for the first season, with the season finale airing on Thursday, May 31,2012. On May 9,2012, Fox renewed the show for a second season, the second season was originally scheduled to begin Friday, October 26,2012, but was pushed back to Friday, February 8,2013. On May 9,2013, Fox canceled Touch after two seasons, Touch centers on former reporter Martin Bohm and his 11-year-old son diagnosed as autistic, Jake. Martins wife died in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks, Jakes repeated escapes from special schools put Martins capacity to raise the child in question, and social worker Clea Hopkins arrives to perform an evaluation of Jakes living conditions. Martin, worried that he lose his son, attempts to communicate with him. Martin realizes that Jake is trying to tell him to follow the numbers, a larger overarching plot involves Tellers work. Teller himself had seen the numbers during a stroke, and has been fascinated with them since, the sequence of numbers that Jake presents falls into what Teller claimed was the Amelia Sequence, based on Amelia Robbins, who was one of his former child patients. Teller later is found dead after attempting to locate Amelia at the facility where Jake spends his days. Martin discovers his old office, rented out from a Jewish synagogue and he also learns that Tellers office mate, Avram, recognizes Jake as one of the 36 Righteous Ones. When Aster Corps attempts to force the state to relinquish Martins custody rights, Martin, with Cleas help, is able to sneak Jake out, through Jakes directions, they end up meeting Amelias mother, Lucy, on a pier in Los Angeles. Martin, Jake, and Lucy gain help in their quest from news syndicate BreakWire and its owner, Jake starts to talk to Amelia in their telepathic world. The season ends with Amelia losing her powers and Jake being secretly marked as the special one of the 36 by the rabbi. Calvin loses his brother after all his efforts, and Martin becomes the sole protector of the 36. The God Sequence is finally fully revealed, Kiefer Sutherland as Martin Bohm, a former journalist turned baggage handler, whose wife died in the September 11 attacks. Danny Glover as Professor Arthur Teller, an expert on the few who possess numerical clairvoyance. Maria Bello as Lucy Robbins, the mother of Amelia, a girl who shares a similar to that of Jake
