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Shares of Ziff Davis jumped on Tuesday after the digital media and internet company agreed to sell its connectivity division to Accenture in a $1.2 billion all-cash transaction.The deal values the unit at more than Ziff Davis’s recent market capitalisation, underscoring the scale of the divestment and prompting a strong positive reaction from investors.The stock jumped 74% to $48.82 in midday trading, after touching a 52-week high of $50.55. Over the past year, the shares have been up 22%, reversing a prolonged period of weakness.By contrast, shares in Accenture slipped 0.6% but gained later in the session and were up…

Jon Gray, President and COO of Blackstone, speaks during the Axios BFD event in New York City, U.S., October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidBrendan Mcdermid | ReutersBlackstone president Jon Gray on Tuesday defended the quality of loans within the firm’s flagship private credit fund after investors pulled nearly 8% from it in the last quarter.The alternative asset management giant said in a late Monday filing that it allowed investors to withdraw 7.9% of BCRED, which it calls the largest private credit fund in the world, with about $82 billion invested. Blackstone did so in part by allowing the firm’s own investors…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Pennsylvania school bus driver is accused of driving 54 elementary school children while over four times the legal alcohol limit, authorities said, after reports she was swerving through traffic and nearly hitting vehicles before the bus ended up in a snowbank.On Tuesday, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Douglass Township Police Chief Robert B. Evans announced an arrest warrant for Kelly Weber, 46, of Boyertown.Weber is charged with driving under the influence, 54 counts each of endangering the welfare of children and reckless endangerment and related summary offenses.Authorities said…

The fallout from three Aboriginal rights agreements, signed last month between the federal government and the Musqueam First Nation, continued on Tuesday. It was a hot topic in question period in the BC legislature.“Yesterday in this House, the Minister of Indigenous Relations stood up and he said he had no idea about any agreement with the federal government and the Musqueam,” BC Conservative interim leader, Trevor Halford, said during question period.“Worse than that, the premier of this province stood in front of the media with children all around him and he says, and I quote, ‘I can’t say whether or…

France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is being sent to the Mediterranean to protect allied assets during the ongoing war in the Middle East.

NewsFeedUS officials confirmed the US didn’t attack Iran because of an ‘imminent threat’ but because Israel was planning to strike anyway. Al Jazeera’s Nada Qaddourah breaks down the Trump administration’s justifications for starting the war and examines whether they hold up.Published On 3 Mar 20263 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

The Pentagon has released the names of four U.S. Army Reserve soldiers killed during the ongoing war with Iran. They were among six who died when an Iranian strike hit a tactical operations center in Kuwait. The Defense Department identified them as:Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, FloridaSgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, MinnesotaSgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, lowaThey died Sunday in Port Shuaiba during an unmanned aircraft system attack, the Defense Department said Tuesday in a statement. Capt. Cody A.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Florida mother killed her two children inside their upscale Lakewood Ranch home before taking her own life in what authorities have determined was a double homicide-suicide.Deputies with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office responded to a welfare check at the residence and discovered three people dead inside. Detectives with the Manatee Homicide Investigation Unit later concluded the children were killed by their mother before she took her own life.Authorities said there is no evidence anyone else was involved and no threat to the community.The victims were identified by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune as…

Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday reaffirmed Canada’s support for U.S. and Israeli efforts to eliminate Iran’s nuclear and terrorist threats, but added it was a position taken “with regret” and suggested the decision to attack Iran was “inconsistent with international law.” Speaking to reporters in Canberra, Australia, during his three-country international trip, Carney said the growing Middle East conflict “is another example of the failure of the international order” that he warned about in his widely-watched speech in Davos in January.“We support efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening…

Rising inflation and the threat of further interest rate hikes by the Reserve Bank are keeping a lid on a return to form for Dan Murphy’s and BWS owner Endeavour Group.