Peel Regional Police and the U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau say they plan to announce arrests on Wednesday in the theft of roughly $20 million in gold and nearly $2 million US in cash from Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2024-04-16 19:47:31 UTC ]
Up to 200 U.S. libraries of all types will be selected to receive $10,000 grants to support, restore, and sustain their core activities. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
A new industry initiative to help independent booksellers and comic shops recover from the Covid-19 pandemic is being launched today, with a $500,000 contribution from Ingram Charities and Ingram Content Group as well as significant gifts from Bookshop.org and four major publishers. The Survive... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
John Bolton’s tell-all book about his time in the Trump administration was supposed to come out on March 17. Then it was supposed to come out on May 12. It didn’t come out on either date, because in both cases, the White House, which Bolton served as national security adviser until September,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-06-23 12:10:14 UTC ]
Telecommunications giant Spectrum Inc. is investing nearly $2 million in a Northern Kentucky facility ahead of a push to hire on 300 more workers. Spectrum, born from the acquisition of Time Warner Cable by Charter Communications (Nasdaq: CHTR), is investing $1.7 million in upgrades to its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2019-10-11 16:16:40 UTC ]
Google has long been a philanthropic powerhouse, with STEM education, economic security and inclusion as top priorities. Through its charitable arm, the company also is tackling housing and homelessness, along with criminal justice reform. Next up — libraries. On Thursday, Google.org announced... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2019-10-03 21:51:27 UTC ]
AT&T is now part of Harry Potter lore as the first brand to ink a sponsorship deal with the new augmented reality game about the wizarding world. AT&T stores are incorporated into the landscape of the game, called “Harry Potter: Wizards Unite,” which is by Niantic, the creator of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-06-21 21:00:51 UTC ]
As part of an agreement to avoid a government shutdown, the new funding deal would add about $2 million to the budgets at both agencies through September 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the 11th annual Thrillerfest banquet, held July 9 in New York City, John Lescroart won a charity award for helping to raise over $2 million for Sacramento’s libraries. Joyce Carol Oates picked up the Best Short Story honor for her story, 'Gun Accident.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp.'s publishing spinoff will be armed with $2.6 billion in cash and no debt, demonstrating Chairman Rupert Murdoch's passion for print even as the new company confronts an industry in decline.The cash pile could come in handy for acquisitions or just to shore up the publishing business,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Social media aggregation site Storify debuted a major aesthetic refresh to its Web site on Tuesday morning, revamping the main homepage and tweaking the site's search tools to better surface the most relevant media among the items from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and others that are published... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]