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AT&T, Discovery join media brands as cord-cutters encroach
NEW YORK (AP) ??" AT&T will join its media operations with those run by Discovery to create a new company in a $43 billion deal that run its CNN, HBO, TNT and TBS with channels like the Food Network and HGTV.With the agreement Monday, AT&T is easing back from a years long push into a streaming entertainment sector where big players are slugging it out with increasingly large war chests dedicated to premium and original content.
The newly formed and publicly traded company will enter a streaming arena that has been flooded in the past two years with new players... Read More
Indonesia's Gojek, Tokopedia to merge as GoTo Group
SINGAPORE (AP) ??" Indonesian ride hailing company Gojek and the country's biggest e-commerce firm Tokopedia said Monday that they are merging to form the GoTo Group, adding to surging competition in Southeast Asia that is attracting billions of dollars from investors.The companies said the deal was Indonesia's biggest ever, based on historical fundraising rounds for Gojek, priced in 2019, and Tokopedia, priced in early-2020, that put the combined past valuations of both companies at $18 billion.
The new company will provide services from ride-hailing and financial... Read More
Sharks use Earth's magnetic field as a GPS, scientists say
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ??" Sharks use the Earth's magnetic field as a sort of natural GPS to navigate journeys that take them great distances across the world's oceans, scientists have found.Researchers said their marine laboratory experiments with a small species of shark confirm long-held speculation that sharks use magnetic fields as aids to navigation ??" behavior observed in other marine animals such as sea turtles.
Their study, published this month in the journal Current Biology, also sheds light on why sharks are able to traverse seas and find their way back to... Read More
Pipeline operator says "normal operations" have resumed
ATLANTA (AP) ??" The operator of the nation's largest gasoline pipeline ??" hit earlier this week by a ransomware attack ??" announced Saturday that it has resumed "normal operations," delivering fuel to its markets, including a large swath of the East Coast.Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline had begun the process of restarting the pipeline's operations on Wednesday evening, warning it could take several days for the supply chain to return to normal.
"Since that time, we have returned the system to normal operations, delivering millions of gallons per hour to the markets... Read More
US climate envoy Kerry meets with pope on climate crisis
VATICAN CITY (AP) ??" John Kerry, President Joe Biden's climate envoy, met privately with Pope Francis on Saturday, afterward calling the pope a "compelling moral authority on the subject of the climate crisis" who has been "ahead of the curve."The former U.S. Secretary of State told Vatican News that the pope's embrace of climate issues "hopefully can push people to greater ambition to get the job done."
Kerry is visiting European capitals to strengthen cooperation on climate change ahead of the next round of U.N. climate talks in Glasgow this November.
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