Nine plans to close the Mi9 deal ahead of its planned IPO, the proceeds of which will be used to pay down debt, people familiar with the matter said. The targeted size of the IPO hasn’t been...
Nine agreed to pay around 40 million Australian dollars (US$37.9 million) for the stake, a person familiar with the matter said. Nine will continue to be Microsoft’s Australian media partner, the...
The Global Agenda Council on Informed Societies was formed in 2010 after emerging from the GAC on the Future of Journalism. The overall vision of the Council is to identify and raise awareness of...
The Global Agenda Council on the Future of Media was formed in 2010 and is now in its third term. Throughout its existence, the Council has focused on two main themes: 1) industry-related risks and...
Currently three Global Agenda Councils exist that that relate to the issues of the media industry: The Global Agenda Council on Social Media, The Future of Media and Informed Societies.
The Global...
This project is an innovative web-based case study on the media outlook in Latin America, Middle East, China and India featuring interviews with regional and global leaders addressing the challenges...
The film was released nationwide in theaters on November 27, 2013.The film was originally planned to be released in 2014. In July 2013, the MPAA rated the film as R rating for strong violence,...
The season continues the story of former sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who relinquished his leadership in order to live a quiet life in contrast to his cold-hearted nature in the previous season....
When Jane Foster is possessed by a great power, Thor must protect her from a new threat of old times: the Dark Elves. Thor must team up with Loki to save the Nine Realms from the Dark Elves led by...
Flint Lockwood now works at The Live Corp Company for his idol Chester V. But he's forced to leave his post when he learns that his most infamous machine is still operational and is churning out...
Ender's Game is a 2013 American science fiction action thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card. Directed and written by Gavin Hood, the film stars Asa Butterfield as...
Asian furniture has a quite distinct history. The traditions out of India, China, Pakistan, Indonesia (Bali and Java) and Japan are some of the best known, but places such as Korea, Mongolia, and...
The first three-quarters of the twentieth century are often seen as the march towards Modernism. Art Deco, De Stijl, Bauhaus, Wiener Werkstätte, and Vienna Secession designers all worked to some...
The furniture of the Middle Ages was usually heavy, oak, and ornamented with carved designs. Along with the other arts, the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth century marked a...
Ancient furniture has been excavated from the 8th-century BC Phrygian tumulus, the Midas Mound, in Gordion, Turkey. Pieces found here include tables and inlaid serving stands. There are also...
A range of unique stone furniture has been excavated in Skara Brae, a Neolithic village located in Orkney. The site dates from 3100–2500 BC and due to a shortage of wood in Orkney, the people of...
The large-scale, production-line manufacturing of affordable automobiles was debuted by Ransom Olds in 1902 at his Oldsmobile factory located in Lansing, Michigan and based upon the assembly line...
In 1890, Émile Levassor and Armand Peugeot of France began producing vehicles with Daimler engines, and so laid the foundation of the automobile industry in France.The first design for an American...
Daimler and Maybach founded Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) in Cannstatt in 1890, and sold their first automobile in 1892 under the brand name, Daimler. It was a horse-drawn stagecoach built by...
Although several other German engineers (including Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach, and Siegfried Marcus) were working on the problem at about the same time, Karl Benz generally is acknowledged as...
In 1807 Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude probably created the world's first internal combustion engine which they called a Pyréolophore, but they chose to install it in a boat on the river...
The first working steam-powered vehicle was designed — and most likely built — by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672. It was a 65 cm-long scale-model toy...
The word automobile comes, via the French automobile from the Ancient Greek word αὐτός (autós, "self") and the Latin mobilis ("movable"); meaning a vehicle that moves itself. The loanword was first...
DAVID BECKHAM has designed a collection for British brand Belstaff - a menswear offering inspired by "reviving luxury moto classics that have been redefined by Beckham's iconic personal style". The...
GIVENCHY's new CEO, Sebastian Suhl - who joined 18 months ago from Prada Group - has spoken about the brand's impressive growth over recent months, revealing it's just the beginning. The LVMH-owned...
WHO is Britain's most stylish star? The British Fashion Council (BFC) has asked you to decide, as it opens voting for this year's British Style Award - an accolade always chosen by the...
REALLY, what's all the fuss about? The great British high street has spent years rubbing shoulders with America's finest - Gap, Banana Republic, Abercrombie & Fitch and most recently, Club...
SO WHO are the design names to watch in Scotland now? The buyers from Harrods and Liberty have a few names in mind, unveiled yesterday at designer fashion showcase Scotland Re:Designed. Young...