Murdoch's Fox beats Comcast with agreed $32.5 billion bid for Sky

Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox has bid £14 per share for British pay-TV broadcaster Sky. Fox originally bid £10.75 in December 2016 but its bid was trumped by Comcast in February, which bid £12.50.

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Murdoch's Fox beats Comcast with agreed $32.5 billion bid for Sky Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox has bid £14 per share for British pay-TV broadcaster Sky. Fox originally bid £10.75 in December 2016 but its bid was trumped by Comcast in February, which bid £12.50. Read More »

This diagram shows exactly how the Thai soccer team were rescued from the caves All 12 boys and their soccer coach were successfully extracted from the Tham Luang cave complex after being trapped there since June 23. They had to be tethered to two divers with a rope and harness, and follow a 3-mile guide rope back to the cave's entrance. Read More »

'We need a fundamental rethink': MediaMath, long seen as an ad tech takeover target, is instead building a war chest to fix a broken industry BI PRIME: On the heels of AT&T's purchase of AppNexus, the independent ad tech firm MediaMath has raised $225 million to fund a plan to invest in AI and potentially make acquisitions. Read More »

The human population is 7.5 billion and counting — a mathematician counts how many humans the Earth can actually support The world's population has reached 7.5 billion people. Since 1960, world population has grown exponentially by about one billion every 13 years. Humans have a large ecological footprint, but Earth will only have capacity for so long until death by starvation and disease balances the birth rate. Read More »

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An ex-Apple employee has been charged with stealing autonomous vehicle secrets Ex-Apple employee Xiaolang Zhang was allegedly trying to board a "last minute" flight to China when he was stopped by federal authorities. Sources claim he was about to begin working for XMotors, a company building "intelligently connected" electronic cars. Read More »

Doctors have warned an emerging STI could become an antibiotic-resistant superbug The bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium (known as MG) will give a person similar symptoms to chlamydia, but it is more resistant to antibiotics. Doctors say it could become the next superbug if not treated properly. Read More »

The Trump administration might have separated a child and parent who are both US citizens The Trump administration said in a court filing Tuesday that it was on track to reunite 38 young immigrant children who were forcibly separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border — though dozens more would need more time. One of those children may even be a US citizen. Read More »

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The father of a doctor who helped rescue the Thai soccer team died while his son saved 13 lives Anesthetist Richard Harris was the last person out of the cave on Tuesday night, the same evening his father passed away. Harris played a crucial role in the mission, assessing the health of all 12 boys and their coach and deciding when they could leave the cave. Read More »

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