NEW YORK (Reuters) – CenturyTel Inc CTL. N said it will buy the Qwest Communications International Inc Q.N, in a $10.6-billion stock deal, combining the third and the fourth biggest U.S. landline phone companies to help them compete more aggressively and cut costs. CenturyLink completes purchase of Qwest. CenturyLink today…
Although regulatory opposition has delayed the transaction, Vodafone Australia and TPG are now officially a single entity, operating under the name TPG Telecom. The final step for the transaction, the Scheme of Arrangement, was initiated on June 29 with today being the first official day of the merged operations. Vodafone’s…
The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which the vice president of the United States becomes president of the United States or assumes the presidential powers and duties, via the president’s death, resignation, removal from office (via impeachment conviction) or is incapacitated. Officials of the United…
The current owners, Chicago businessman David Hamilton and his wife, Catharine, bought it from the estate of Philip K. Wrigley, the founder’s son and successor, for $6.8 million in 1984 and recently listed it for $7.5 million. In July 1992, Geordie Hormel bought the mansion and made it available for…
At the academy, she discovers a passion for reading and manages to stand out among her peers due to her intelligence, critical thinking and leadership skills, and willingness to help her classmates despite bitter competition. Her exam scores eventually earn her the title of academy princess. The competition at the…
BBC Sport Academy | Other Sport | Snooker | Breaking those balls. Before the game, a coin is tossed to decide who has the option of breaking first. If you win the toss it’s always best to break first. That way, if the match goes to a deciding frame, you…
It commemorates three founders of America’s women’s suffrage movement: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott. suffrage movement began as a struggle to achieve equal rights for women in 1872. Women then became active in their quest for political recognition, which they finally obtained in 1928. This investigation…
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been broken after less than four weeks. Israel said its aircraft struck Hamas military compounds in Gaza after incendiary balloons launched from Gaza caused 20 fires in fields in communities near the border. Israel and Hamas have announced a ceasefire after 11 days…
Who is correct? The blank slate idea has a long history in philosophy that goes back to Aristotle. Skinner’s version draws on English philosopher John Locke who developed a theory of knowledge as formed by the association of sensory experiences (and referred to a blank sheet of paper). John Locke’s…
The Portuguese State of India (Estado Português da Índia), also simply known as Portuguese India was a colonial state of the Portuguese Empire within the Indian Subcontinent. The first Europeans to come to India and the last ones to leave were Portuguese. The first Portuguese to land in India was…