One of Nashville’s largest privately owned companies is launching an initiative aimed at bringing more diversity into the tech industry. Asurion has donated $200,000 to create a new data-science scholarship at historically black Fisk University in Nashville, according to a news release. The Asurion Data Science Scholarship will provide $10,000 scholarships to four to six students pursuing a computer science or data science degree each year. Nashville's tech community, like most across… Continue reading at 'Silicon Valley Business Journal'
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-06-09 17:16:57 UTC ]
On March 24, President Trump told a Fox News virtual town hall that he’d love to have America “opened up and just raring to go” by Easter. Bill Hemmer, who was hosting, chuckled, and said that would be “a great American resurrection.” Later the same day, during a second appearance on Fox, Trump... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-04-13 12:02:48 UTC ]
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On December 19, police in Jowhar, the capital of Hirshabelle state, raided the privately owned City FM broadcaster, briefly detained Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-12-23 23:00:13 UTC ]
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WHEN I WAS a student in Perm, Russia, my university friend told me that her grandparents were kulaks. The term dates back to the era of collectivization, a harsh agrarian reform that took place in the Soviet Union between the late 1920s and the early ’30s. Hitherto privately owned land and... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-12-14 18:00:21 UTC ]
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Purchase of British Steel gives privately owned Chinese steelmaker Jingye chance to grow outside home market dominated by giant state-owned mills Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2019-11-13 11:03:39 UTC ]
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Judging by the dozens of cannabis pitches I receive weekly, weed—which is increasingly gaining recreational legal status across the U.S., despite the hundreds of thousands of people who continue to be arrested for it every year—is ripe for advertising opportunities. Here’s one standout cannabis... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-04 20:07:05 UTC ]
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Andrew Ridgeley, one half of the iconic British pop duo Wham! will tell the story of the legendary ’80s group and his friendship with bandmate George Michael in a new memoir. Penguin Random House imprint Dutton will publish "Wham! George & Me" this fall, the publisher said in a news release.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three recent books challenge the tech industry's myths of self-reliance and prescience. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jeff Tweedy, the alternative country pioneer and frontman of the band Wilco, has written a memoir that's slated for release in November. Tweedy's "Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording With Wilco, Etc." is scheduled for publication on Nov. 13 by Dutton. In a news... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: Chance the Rapper is also a... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Rooster Bar' author John Grisham sinks his teeth into a juicy target: privately owned, for-profit law schools Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rose McGowan, an actress who has been among those leading the charge against sexual harassment and assault in the film industry, will release a memoir in January. “Brave,” McGowan's first book, will be published Jan. 30 by Harper One, an imprint of Harper Collins, according to a news release from... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The conference is fast approaching and there have been a few late additions to the stellar lineup of presenters sharing new and disruptive business ideas from the tech industry. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bob Iger, whose tenure as chairman and chief executive of Walt Disney Co. has been marked by a string of high-profile acquisitions, will write a book about leadership for Random House, the publisher announced Monday. In a news release, Random House said Iger's book will explore "the ideas,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) has been pushing the U.S. Coast Guard to buy or lease a polar ice-breaking ship owned by one of his top campaign contributors, although officials repeatedly have said the vessel doesn’t meet the service’s needs. The ship in question, the Aiviq, is a privately owned,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SILICON VALLEY — Ellen Pao, who rocked Silicon Valley with a gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers last year, signed a book deal that will detail her experiences with the tech industry’s “toxic culture.” Pao’s memoir, titled “Reset,” was acquired by the... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2016-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon.com’s ebook distribution deals are coming under close scrutiny from the European Commission, which has begun a formal antitrust investigation into the company’s contracts with publishers.The probe will focus on clauses in Amazon’s contracts that require publishers to tell the company... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The government has published details on a “new, more challenging” GSCE in computer science, and content for more “rigorous and demanding” GCSEs in music, art and design and physical education. Content has also been published for A levels in dance, music and PE as part of a “commitment to raise... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dutch ebook resale site Tom Kabinet has to close because, at least at the moment, it cannot prove that all the books offered for sale on the site have been legally obtained, an Amsterdam court ruled Tuesday.Tom Kabinet, which allows sellers to upload ebook files to the site, has been online... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2015-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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