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Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for $2.2B in cash (Alison Weissbrot/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/agencies/publicis-to-acquire-liveramp-for-22-billion/

Publicis to Acquire LiveRamp for $2.2 Billion
The data collaboration platform will remain agnostic under new owner

"How one woman’s farm is a model for small-scale farmers in Malawi"
#Malawi #Farming

How one woman's farm is a model for small-scale farmers in Malawi
In Malawi’s Chiradzulu district, located in the southern region of the country, Diana Sitima’s farm shows how a combination of agroecology and secure land ownership can create a thriving commercial enterprise. Many neighboring farmers rely primarily on growing and selling maize. But, on her 3.5-hectare (8.6-acre) farm, Sitima combines diverse crops of fruits and vegetables […]

Since when did autumn become dangerous?
Anyway, one of a myriad reasons I don’t log into LinkedIn (except, apparently, to self-promote, which is the whole reason it exists).

Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for $2.2B in cash (Alison Weissbrot/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/agencies/publicis-to-acquire-liveramp-for-22-billion/

Publicis to Acquire LiveRamp for $2.2 Billion
The data collaboration platform will remain agnostic under new owner

There is growing concern Donald Trump’s massive $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service may soon be settled by his own administration
– an unprecedented, self-dealing maneuver for a US president,
in which billions of taxpayer dollars could be transferred to the president or his allies.
Trump may agree to drop his lawsuit in exchange for the launch of a $1.7bn fund to compensate people he says were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration,
according t…

Accenture says it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal for the cybersecurity startups valued at $4.18B (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

The “best university in continental Europe” opens two related, but different professorships (say “history of X” and “philosophy of X”).
However, the committee members hate each other so much that the rectorate takes away one of the positions, and the remaining one then becomes “history and philosophy of X,” which conveniently disqualifies all the junior applicants for the separate positions, leaving just the one senior guy on which they can agree 🥳
(No, I’m not involved.)

The “best university in continental Europe” opens two related, but different professorships (say “history of X” and “philosophy of X”).
However, the committee members hate each other so much that the rectorate takes away one of the positions, and the remaining one then becomes “history and philosophy of X,” which conveniently disqualifies all the junior applicants for the separate positions, leaving just the one senior guy on which they can agree 🥳
(No, I’m not involved.)

Sources: Paramount hopes to close its acquisition of WBD by July 15, a far more ambitious timeline than Paramount has publicly telegraphed (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-closing-date-david-ellison

Ellison’s Fast and Furious Takeover
Paramount is hoping to close its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery much sooner than the company has publicly stated, Status has learned.

Kara Swisher says she'll leave CNN as soon as she can if the Ellisons acquire WBD, the network's parent company; she's under contract until the end of 2026 (Zoe Engels/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/im-just-not

‘I’m Just Not Staying’: Kara Swisher Jumping Ship At CNN As Soon As She Can Over ‘ ...
CNN’s Kara Swisher said she'll depart CNN as soon as she can if the "incompetent" Ellison family successfully acquires the network's parent company.