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Citigroup maintains AMC Entertainment Hldgs at Sell, raises price target to $2.60 from $2.20
Citigroup maintained AMC Entertainment Hldgs at Sell and raised its price target to $2.60 from $2.20, an 18.2% increase.The price target implies a downside of 17.2% from the Nov 6 close of $3.14.Explore more price target data and ratings for AMC Entertainment Hldgs on the Forecasts tab, and track a…
Campbell hosts Harnett business leaders for economic update
Photo by Campbell University Harnett County has grown more than 27% over the last 15 years and is on the cusp of significant growth in the business sector as well. Campbell University recently hosted the 2026 Harnett County Economic Development Update; this was the university's third year in a row hosting the event. The annual event invites elected officials, business leaders and stakeholders from Harnett and its neighboring counties to share updates on new projects, economic trends and announcements from the previous year. Campbell’s continued involvement is part of its five-year Strategic Plan, launched earlier this year, which lists “community impact” as one of its four main objectives. “Every place I have ever worked, the university has been viewed by its surrounding community and region as an asset to economic development, as an inducement to business and industry and as a driver of innovation. It has been seen as the indispensable partner for growth,” Campbell President Dr. William M. Downs told the group of about 200 in attendance. “We ask that you save us a seat at your table when you are dreaming big about the future of this county and beyond. Campbell University is open for business, and we’d like to do business with you.”In addition to Campbell, Harnett is home to Harnett County Schools and its Career & Technical Education programs and a satellite campus of Central Carolina Community College, home of the Eugene Moore Manufacturing & Biotech Solutions Center (the largest training facility in the state). Stephen Barrington, Harnett County Economic Development director, shared the county’s latest initiatives, focus areas and opportunities in economic development. He lauded Campbell and the county’s strong educational and training infrastructure for training the area’s current and future workforce.“Workforce is at the top of the list when we talk about economic development,” Barrington said in a press release. “Work and skill-ready talent remains at the top of the list [of assets in Harnett County]. We’re extremely grateful for the education and training of our students for the next generation.”One big project landed in September when Harnett County was awarded a $500,000 Build Ready Sites grant from the North Carolina Railroad Company to advance a rail-served industrial site. The investment will help prepare the property for future development and strengthen Harnett County’s ability to compete for rail-served projects. The funding will support Byrd Industrial Site B, an 83-acre site with 58 developable acres within the Byrd Industrial Sites in Lillington.Harnett County is also actively working with Samet Corp. is actively working with Samet Corp. on the development of a 175,500-square-foot speculative industrial building to stimulate economic development.Featured speaker was Ted Abernathy, founding and managing partner of Economic Leadership, a small group of data, strategy and best-practice policy experts that work with companies, foundations and business organizations to analyze competitiveness, develop strategy, support leadership, tune communications and reimagine the future.Abernathy lauded Harnett County’s proximity to one of the fastest-growing and most business-friendly regions in the country — the Research Triangle and Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area — and said Harnett needs to attract more businesses that offer higher-paying jobs to compete. “The quality of the jobs you attract is one of the challenges for you as you go forward,” Abernathy said in a press release. “You need more high-paying jobs. A big chunk of the population here is making $25 to $50 an hour, which is good. But where you’re really weak is this high end. If you looked at Raleigh or Durham or Mecklenburg, that number would be a third of their jobs.”Learn more about Harnett County Economic Development and current projects happening at harnettedc.org.
Bernhard Capital closes $1B deal for Bowman Consulting
Bernhard Capital Partners has completed its approximately $1 billion all-cash acquisition of Bowman Consulting Group, making the national engineering services firm privately held and ending its Nasdaq listing. The deal combines Bowman’s technical capabilities, established client relationships and national reach with Bernhard’s industry expertise and track record of growing infrastructure services businesses. The companies plan […]
Russell Brand’s predatory nature an open secret in entertainment industry
Bosses at BBC and Channel 4, where the comedian’s celebrity was built, are facing awkward questions about anything they may have known about his behaviour
Former White House health aide accuses Trump advisers of catering to special interests
In an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Calley Means accused top administration aides and strategists of favoring powerful industries.
Jane Kim to be new insurance commissioner
Ex-SF supervisor vows to take on industry profits
Maricopa County gets EPA approval for emissions-offsetting credit program for businesses
Under the new rule, businesses can get credits for replacing high-emitting vehicles, which they can use to offset emissions from industrial sites.
Colts’ Josh Downs Gets Major Trade Update From Sports Illustrated
The Indianapolis Colts and Josh Downs appear to be heading toward a near-certain split. It hasn’t happened yet, though, and the clock is ticking toward the Tuesday, Nov. 10 NFL trade deadline. Downs is in the last year of his contract, making him an obvious trade candidate for a rebuilding Colts team. He has also […] The post Colts’ Josh Downs Gets Major Trade Update From Sports Illustrated appeared first on HEAVY.
Maximum Entertainment AB (MAXENT_B) Cancels Q3 2026 Report as It Moves to Half-Year Reporting
Maximum Entertainment AB is moving from quarterly to half-year reporting and will not publish its Q3 2026 interim report, previously scheduled for November 30. Its next report will be the FY2026 year-end report on March 31, 2027; the change follows its U.S. subsidiary agreeing to a court-supervised…
Maximum Entertainment Moves to Half-Year Reporting and Will Not Publish an Interim Report for the Third Quarter of 2026
Stockholm, Sweden (November 6, 2026) - Maximum Entertainment AB (Nasdaq: MAXENT B) ("Maximum Entertainment" or the "Company") today announces that it is moving from quarterly to half-year financial reporting. As a consequence, the interim report for the third quarter of 2026, previously scheduled f…
Whoa, I Missed It! Disney Starts Licensing the Household Silver, When IP Backfires, and More Big Content Moves
(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) Over these last few months, the entertainment business story landscape revolved around Skydance (and their merger) and Netflix (and their leadership shakeup). I don’t even want to scan my archives to see how many times I wrote about just those two companies over the last six months or so, let alone how many times they demanded their own article. Oh, how I long for June, when I could avoid them and write about other mergers and acquisitions (Comcast and NBCUniversal; Fox buying Roku). Well, not really, but you know what I mean. That focus on just two companies meant I ignored a lot of fun and, more importantly, important stories. So, it’s also time for another “Whoa, I Missed It” article. These are stories I wish I had written about, but aren’t exactly current events anymore. And there are a lot of them! Fifteen stories in all, including a very important merger that I didn’t write about, my word of warning about the IP deluge, how “genre” TV is making a big comeback, Netflix’s latest smart acquisition (and a licensing divorce), Disney and HBO’s recent TV show buys (and what they say about reboots on TV), a big cable merger, Amazon’s new bundle, social media censorship, and a lot more. Subscribe Most Important Story of the Week - Buy, Sell or Hold the Latest Content Development and Licensing in 2026!!! Content is king. I’ve written that before, and I believe in it now more than ever. If I had to quantify it, and I have, I put it at about 50% of the fate of any given media company, be they streamer, network, bundler, studio or social platform. This is a hits-driven business, and, as I like to do about every so often, it’s time to check in on the latest content moves. These content shifts on their own aren’t usually enough to be the “most important story” of a week, but if you add them up, you can see the content landscape shifting. The stories also fell into two natural buckets: licensing deals and IP moves. Plus, I’ll offer my “buy, sell or hold” rating for whether I think the deal is smart for a given side. Let’s dive right in. Disney Starts Licensing the Household Silver Disney is starting to license their core brands to Netflix. Quietly, over the last couple of years, Disney had rented some 20th Century [Fox] shows and films to Netflix, but until now, the core brands had escaped that fate. Now? At least some Pixar films will make it to Disney (including Elio) and some Disney+ Originals (like Percy Jackson and the Olympians). Here’s my rating for each company: Disney: Sell. One is tempted to say Disney has started licensing the “crown jewels”, but I don’t think we see that yet. I’d call this the “family silver” instead, which isn’t quite as valuable. That said, Disney’s new CEO clearly is focused on shoring up the company’s profitability, and that means licensing deals, even at the expense of Disney+ exclusivity. This could also help bring eyeballs to Percy Jackson for the upcoming season, a similar benefit to “dual casting” this show, which I also think Disney should do. Still, in the long run, I’d protect the core brands more. Netflix: Buy. This is a smart move, assuming the price is right, and I’d bet it is. (Netflix’s content licensing teams are some of the best in the industry.) Of course, this is another data point that Netflix is moving away from making their own films and relying on licensing instead. That has downsides—they’ll always end up renting—but if you’re buying Disney content, that’s a good move. Prime Video Buys More Live Events Amazon’s Prime Video/MGM Studios keeps purchasing live events, including the Emmys (which I wrote about here) and some regional sporting rights. These bolster their NFL, NBA and Academy of Country Music Awards licensing deals. My theory here is that Prime Video knows that they can sell the advertising for more on live events than on their massive acquired/original inventory of shows and films. (As I’ve been showing with Reelgood’s data, they have a LOT more shows and films than other streamers.) Advertisers want live, engaged viewers, since they’re a lot more likely to be real. Prime Video: Hold. I like Amazon’s focus on live events, but it remains tough to evaluate this company, er, business unit, since we don’t know anything about their financials. Yes, Amazon’s CEO recently released a very carefully worded statement about Prime Video, claiming profitability, but we don’t know by how much by when. (It’s also not audited by third parties, so we have to take it with another grain of salt.) Plus, given that Amazon increased the price of the Emmys by about a third, they also likely overpaid. (Maybe that’s why they’re barely profitable, allegedly.) But also, I think they know they need to dominate live TV, and that’s a smart strategy! So I’m torn, but lean towards calling this a smart move. The Emmys: Definitely sell! I mentioned this in my “Streaming Bonus Content” article, but I really, really, really, really do NOT like this move for the Emmys. Chasing short term dollars over long term awareness is not a smart move. To reach the widest audience, the “dual-cast” format—meaning broadcast and streaming—just reaches more people. Skydance Takes Its Animation Back This is the story that made me want to write a “let’s catch up on content” column in the first place. Specifically, Skydance and Netflix have ended their animated film output deal. It’s not huge, since really, what film has Skydance Animation made that’s broken out? But strategically, it shows you how Skydance is positioning their company. Skydance Animation: Hold. Again, I still need to see Skydance Animation put out a hit or two before I can judge this as a smart move. The other worry for Skydance is they have a lot of overlapping animation houses now, and that’s going to end at some point. Still, if John Lasseter can regain his animation mojo—and his track record has been mixed at Skydance, ignoring his other issues—this could be a powerful point for Paramount. Netflix: Hold (put your films in theaters). Right now, with the Dan Lin upheaval and Peter Rice coming in, we don’t really know what Netflix’s plans for theaters versus straight-to-streaming films are. So I need to see what new films (if any) they buy/rent/produce to replace the Skydance flicks, but it will probably be a smarter investment of capital, since the straight-to-streaming films have just failed to break out, outside of one major example. Theaters: Buy! They do look like they’re gonna end up with more inventory based on the Skydance move, and now Netflix putting four to five films in theaters per year. For example, Netflix confirmed that KPop Demon Hunters 2 will come to theaters, and that’s going to be a smash. Disney+’s Reboot Future So those were the major licensing news stories, and now we get to the IP-related updates. Obviously, I’m generally pro-IP in content development. But that’s not some iron law; not all IP hits equally. Get ready for Entertainment Nuance Guy. And let’s start with a big worry. Scanning the news stories, Disney has three reboots on their lineup between ABC, Hulu and Disney+: Coach (on ABC), The X-Files and Glee. So are reboots as immune to failure as IP? We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out about… Why I’m skeptical about some upcoming genre and IP plays… How Skydance’s merger closing unlocked Paramount and HBO… The focus on “genre” across the streamers and studios… Some big creators leave Netflix… Netflix’s horror TV show licensing play (and what they should have done instead)… A huge merger that I didn’t write about... Whether or not we’ll see a major film tax credit… Amazon’s new megabundle of streamers… And (somehow) more… ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support.
Health intel-sharing group warns industry in wake of cyberattack on French blood bank
A healthcare intelligence-sharing organization is warning its members to lock down systems following cyberattacks on cold storage systems, including a French blood bank.
Sportico Transactions: Moves and Mergers Roundup for Nov. 6
Welcome to Sportico’s transactions wire, a weekly rundown of personnel, partnerships, products and purchases across the sports business industry. PERSONNEL The Familie Signs Michael Phelps Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history, has joined The Familie for representation as he enters the next chapter of his career focused on expanding his business portfolio, strategic …
Healthcare Dealmakers—Chicago's $11B hospital merger, another health system ASC deal and more
Healthcare mergers and acquisitions are in no short supply as providers, health tech companies, payers and other industry players look to expand their businesses and gain a competitive edge. | Kaiser Permanente's next regional health system acquisition, Redesign Health's merger with Sheba Medical Center's innovation arm and more merger and acquisition news from a busy October.
Sportico Transactions: Moves and Mergers Roundup for Nov. 6
Welcome to Sportico’s transactions wire, a weekly rundown of personnel, partnerships, products and purchases across the sports business industry. PERSONNEL The Familie Signs Michael Phelps Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history, has joined The Familie for representation as he enters the next chapter of his career focused on expanding his business portfolio, strategic …
Why HP picked a transformation vet from the pharma industry to lead its $55 billion business
Ex-GSK chief Emma Walmsley was the first woman to run a major pharma company. Now she'll bring her transformation experience to hardware.
States tax sports betting heavily, but gamblers may barely feel it
Sports betting has grown explosively since 2018, when a U.S. Supreme Court ruling struck down a federal ban on it. Now, Americans wager more than $165 billion on sports annually, contributing to an industry ...
Green Bay Packers get intriguing trade suggestion ahead of Patriots matchup
The Green Bay Packers have been linked to an unexpected trade target ahead of their upcoming matchup with the New England Patriots. With the NFL trade deadline nearing, Sports Illustrated’s Jacob Westendorf has suggested that Green Bay explore a deal for Patriots defensive tackle Christian Barmore. Barmore, 27, is under a four-year, $84 million contract [...]
5 things to know in life sciences: Week of Nov. 2, 2026
Each week we highlight five things affecting the life sciences industry. Here’s the latest.
Could the US midterms put a pin in the AI bubble?
Fears of more AI regulation appear to have sparked fear among investors, but concerns about the industry have been growing for some time.
Wells Fargo maintains Live Nation Entertainment at Overweight, lowers price target to $221 from $222
Wells Fargo maintained Live Nation Entertainment at Overweight and lowered its price target to $221 from $222, a 0.5% decrease.The price target implies an upside of 21.9% from the Nov 5 close of $181.25.Recent analyst actions on Live Nation EntertainmentAcross the four most recent analyst notes pub…
Citizens maintains Inspired Entertainment at Market Outperform, lowers price target to $7 from $9
Citizens maintained Inspired Entertainment at Market Outperform and lowered its price target to $7 from $9, a 22.2% decrease.The price target implies an upside of 100.0% from the Nov 5 close of $3.50.Recent analyst actions on Inspired EntertainmentAcross the four most recent analyst notes published…
G5 Entertainment (Q3 Review): Leaner cost base, growth levers taking shape
Redeye’s analyst published a Research Update on G5 Entertainment.Click here to read the articleMake sure to add G5 Entertainment to your Watchlist at Redeye and our analysts will notify you if anything relevant happens regarding your companiesAbout Redeye Nordic Growth ABThis is a press release fro…
Terrific fantasy RPG Queen's Domain gets first proper update, adding a new throwing weapon and options to make puzzles "less frustrating"
Extremely good King's Field-style RPG Queen's Domain has received a larger patch that adds a new throwing knife, together with options to make puzzles easier.
Two-step synthesize superconducting hydride at lower pressures
In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society researchers experimentally synthesized for the first time Mg2RhH6 that exhibits superconductivity at a significantly reduced pressure of 30 GPa. Mg2RhH6 was synthesized via a two-step process and showed superconductivity with a maximum Tc of 29 K. The findings open a highly promising pathway for the rational design and discovery of high temperature superconductors at accessible pressures for industrial pressure facilities.
Wells Fargo maintains PENN Entertainment at Equal-Weight, raises price target to $23 from $22
Wells Fargo maintained PENN Entertainment at Equal-Weight and raised its price target to $23 from $22, a 4.5% increase.The price target implies an upside of 32.6% from the Nov 5 close of $17.34.Recent analyst actions on PENN EntertainmentAcross the five most recent analyst notes published on PENN E…
CHEMM: Revenue rose 28% and EBITDA 46% as instruments and life science-led demand accelerated
Q1 revenue rose 28% YoY and EBITDA 46%, with a 63% EBITDA margin. Growth was strongest in instruments and the life science, cell and gene therapy, and bioprocessing business area; FY guidance was maintained at DKK 570–605m revenue and DKK 335–360m EBITDA.Original document: ChemoMetec A/S [CHEMM] Sl…
U.S. Added 165,000 Jobs In October; Entertainment Employment Rises
The U.S. added an unexpectedly robust 165,000 jobs in October, with the unemployment rate at 4.1%, while jobs in the entertainment industry also picked up.
What many get wrong about Amish or Plain Anabaptist communities, measles, and health
The U.S. has reported three measles deaths this week in three different states. All the affected were unvaccinated, and some were too young to get vaccinated, relying on herd immunity. Many states haven’t seen a measles death in more than 30 years. Measles is highly contagious, but it mainly spreads among those without immunity. Social factors typically shape these unvaccinated pockets. Many states describe these deaths as occurring among “under-immunized, rural communities.” (In the future, it could be among other tight-knit groups.) Small signals in the news point to many outbreaks right now among the Plain Anabaptists (APA), which include communities like the Amish and Mennonite. Many know APA communities from a distance through their bakeries, furniture, and roadside buggies. But most of us don’t know enough about them, their traditions, or how those traditions actually interact with health and disease. Rumors, misconceptions, and frustration fill those voids. Tristan Sharratt, a family nurse practitioner and rural health researcher who grew up near and works with these communities in Central New York (and a YLE reader who reached out!), says misconceptions continue to create major problems. If the U.S. wants to stop a tsunami of measles coming down the pipeline, or even support health in those communities proactively beyond measles (which is ideal), we must understand how specific communities protect themselves, their values, and the role broader society plays. This starts with a conversation and some self-reflection. Here are the top five lessons I learned from my conversation with Tristan.
Zee Entertainment Board To Discuss Investor Concerns Over Recent Decline In Share Price
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited NSE:ZEEL:
Jones Trading maintains Seaport Entertainment Gr at Buy, lowers price target to $30 from $36
Jones Trading maintained Seaport Entertainment Gr at Buy and lowered its price target to $30 from $36, a 16.7% decrease.The price target implies an upside of 39.7% from the Nov 5 close of $21.48.Explore more price target data and ratings for Seaport Entertainment Gr on the Forecasts tab, and track…
Cristiano Ronaldo receives touching tribute from FIFA President after retirement
Cristiano Ronaldo has retired from international soccer at the age of 41. After spending 23 years at the top of the industry, Ronaldo has finally decided to hang up his boots after 234 games and 146 goals for Portugal. A Portuguese soccer legend, Ronaldo was a part of the Portuguese national team for over two decades, where he represented the squad […] The post Cristiano Ronaldo receives touching tribute from FIFA President after retirement appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Aussies turn to 'Mr Cricket': Former CSK coach joins Australia support staff for Ashes and 2027 World Cup
Hussey, who earned the nickname 'Mr Cricket' for his technical knowledge of the game, will also assist the Australian coaching staff during this month's home T20 series against England and the subsequent four-Test series against New Zealand.
After the blue wave, here’s what Georgia business leaders are watching
Voters made their economic frustration clear as Democrats swept statewide offices and reclaimed the state House.
Australia recruit Hussey for Ashes build-up
Australia recruit Michael Hussey as a long-term batting consultant to help them prepare for the 2027 Ashes and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Kinda Brave Entertainment Group Q3 EBITDA Loss Narrows To SEK 3.7 Mln
Kinda Brave Entertainment Group AB (publ) OMXSTO:BRAVE:
Extreme heat is creating a workplace health crisis in Bangladesh’s garment industry
Rising temperatures in Bangladesh are creating an occupational health crisis for the 4.2 million workers in the country’s garment industry, reports Mongabay contributor Usraat Fahmidah. A World Bank report shows that maximum temperatures across the country have climbed by about 1.1° Celsius (2° Fahrenheit) since 1980. The country’s capital, Dhaka, hit a record 40.6°C (105°F) […]
What if polarization isn’t the real problem in American politics?
Political scientist Lilliana Mason challenges how we understand America’s democratic crisis and what journalism owes the public.
Justin Jefferson says his frustration came from "wanting to win"
Macquarie maintains AMC Entertainment Hldgs at Neutral, raises price target to $4 from $3.50
Macquarie maintained AMC Entertainment Hldgs at Neutral and raised its price target to $4 from $3.50, a 14.3% increase.The price target implies an upside of 29.9% from the Nov 5 close of $3.08.Explore more price target data and ratings for AMC Entertainment Hldgs on the Forecasts tab, and track all…
CBS drama "Cupertino" part of N.J.'s booming show business industry
Apple's First Touchscreen Mac is Now Arriving to Customers
It's Friday, November 6 in Australia and New Zealand, which means customers who preordered a PROLED touchscreen MacBook Pro, OLED iPad mini, M6 MacBook Pro, or M6 iMac are now starting to receive their devices.
After contentious meeting, French Market board replaces three longtime tenants with new shops
The corporation's vote comes as it has adopted a new approach to attracting tenants to the French Market, one that has sparked frustration and concern among existing business owners.
Stellantis asks parts makers for deeper visibility into supply chain
The request for "Tier-N" visibility matches policies at General Motors and other competitors as the industry experiences more frequent factory disruptions.
Ken Ziffren Optimistic About Entertainment Industry, Even When It Comes To AI
In his annual look at the industry, Hollywood legal mandarin Ken Ziffren today put AI, tax credits & more in the spotlight
UL Solutions Collaborates on Cross-Industry Initiative to Modernize Life Science Regulated Training
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BRIEF-Inspired Entertainment Q3 Revenue USD 61.4 Million
Nov 05 (Reuters) - Inspired Entertainment Q3 net income USD -100 thousand.
Fox Entertainment Studios Signs First-Look Deal With Cottage Industry
Fox Entertainment Studios has signed a first-look deal with Lisa Hamilton Daly and Alysia Cotter Thomas' Cottage Industry Entertainment.
Fox Entertainment Studios Signs First-Look Deal With Lisa Hamilton Daly’s Cottage Industry Entertainment
Fox Entertainment Studios inked a first-look development and production deal with Cottage Industry Entertainment
Danielle Steel’s ‘The Whittiers’ In The Works As Series
The adaptation comes from Cottage Industry Entertainment & Fox Entertainment Studios.
Fox Entertainment Studios Signs First-Look Deal With Lisa Hamilton Daly and Alysia Cotter Thomas’ Cottage Industry Entertainment
Fox Entertainment Studios has sealed a first-look development and producing deal with Cottage Industry Entertainment, the shingle launched by executives Lisa Hamilton Daly and Alysia Cotter Thomas. Am...
Fox Entertainment Studios Signs First-Look Deal With Lisa Hamilton Daly’s Cottage Industry Entertainment
Fox Entertainment Studios inked a first-look development and production deal with Cottage Industry Entertainment
USDA revising cost-share requirements for Dairy Business Innovation
MADISON, Wis. (WKOW) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is revising cost-share requirements for the Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives program after discussions with the four DBI centers and dairy industry
Brand conviction shines light on entertainment industry's culture of silence
By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Russell Brand's conviction for sex crimes has renewed scrutiny of how Britain's entertainment industry has treated high-profile performers
Brand Conviction Shines Light on Entertainment Industry's Culture of Silence
By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Russell Brand's conviction for sex crimes has renewed scrutiny of how Britain's entertainment industry has treated high-profile performers accused of abusing their power, with some women saying they feared speaking out could damage their ...
SOBEWFF® TURNS UP THE HEAT FOR 2027 WITH A STAR-STUDDED LINEUP OF FOOD, ENTERTAINMENT AND NEW EXPERIENCES
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The nation’s biggest culinary celebration is back. The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by Capital One (SOBEWFF®) returns February 25-28, 2027, bringing together more than 500 chefs, culinary personalities and industry tastemakers for four days of extraordinary food, entertainment and wine and spirits exclusively provided […]
Clemson Business welcomed top AI and consulting industry leaders for Power of Leadership Speaker Series
For consulting teams using artificial intelligence, the first question remains a familiar one: What business problem needs solving? That was a recurring
Lake Erie Maple Expo Rooted in Science and Family History
The Lake Erie Maple Expo brings producers together to explore maple syrup production, value-added products, industry innovations and changing environmental challenges.
7 Small Business Ideas With the Highest Net Margins, According to Industry Data
A study ranked 61 small business categories by margins, profitability, and growth rate. Here's which ones came out on top.
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois - e-architect
Designed by RAMSA, the project builds on key elements of the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry's master plan to create a fully accessible
Making News in Business, Nov. 6
Riverside Industries announces new leadership EASTHAMPTON — Riverside Industries Inc.’s board of directors has appointed Markus Jones to serve as its next president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. While Jones has been newly named to this leadership role, he previously served as the organization’s interim president and CEO beginning March 1. Prior to that […]
Sphere Entertainment Co. reports results for the quarter ended September 30
FORECAST CHANGESRECOMMENDATIONSThis summary was machine generated from LSEG data November 5 at 03:55 p.m. UTC. All figures in US dollars unless otherwise stated. (For questions concerning the data in this report, contact Estimates.Support@lseg.com. For any other questions or feedback, contact Refi…
QBE promotes Leanne Nel to Pacific CEO
Australian firm QBE Insurance Group Ltd. has appointed Leanne Nel as Pacific chief executive officer and managing director, effective Dec. 3, Insurance News reported. Nel has more than three decades…
How Democrats’ midterm wins reshape Farm Bill politics
Democrats’ sweeping gains in this week’s congressional midterms, driven in part by voter frustration in farm states, give the party new leverage in Farm Bill negotiations, according to farmers and farm advocates.
UK Veterinary Science Marks Opening of the Sports Medicine Research Center
This industry-supported facility will help enable research on musculoskeletal conditions to improve the health and welfare of both horses and humans.
Lance Turner named communications director at State Chamber
The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce/Associated Industries of Arkansas announced the hiring of Lance Turner as director of communications. Turner will oversee the State Chamber/AIA’s communications strategy, including digital and...
ENHA: A 77% DEAG stake builds a global sports and live-entertainment platform
An all-stock deal would give the acquirer a 77% stake in DEAG, pairing sports IP and telehealth with a live-event and ticketing platform. Combined 2027E revenue is ~$670 million; closing is expected in Q1 2027, subject to conditions.Original document: Enhanced Group Inc. [ENHA] Press release — Nov…
GE HealthCare Technologies' Taha Kass-Hout to Resign as Chief Science and Technology Officer
GE HealthCare Technologies' Chief Science and Technology Officer Taha Kass-Hout will resign effective December 31, 2026.Original SEC Filing: GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. [ GEHC ] - 8-K - Nov. 05, 2026This is an AI-powered summary. It may contain inaccuracies. Consider verifying important informa…
Henrico Business Watch: Business license filings Oct. 29–Nov. 4, 2026
Henrico County reported the following business license filings with start dates during the week. The filings are listed alphabetically by business or trade name, followed by a registered address and business industry classification. Aulden Salon LLC, 201 Towne Center West Boulevard, Henrico – Hairdressing services. Bita's Borough and Bean LLC,
Sphere Entertainment’s (NYSE:SPHR) Q3 CY2026 sales top estimates
Content production and distribution company Sphere Entertainment NYSE:SPHRreported calendar Q3 2026 (fiscal Q1 2027) results beating Wall Street’s revenue expectations, with revenue up 4.5% year on year to $274.3 million. Its GAAP loss of $4.84 per share was significantly below analysts’ consensus…
Coleman in 'hybrid role' with Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson says it was "tempting" to include Seamus Coleman in his squad for this month's Nations League matches against Austria and Kosovo despite the defender having not played since June.
Lucky Strike Entertainment Q1 revenue beats estimates; suspends dividend to cut debt
OverviewOutlookResult DriversCompany press release:Key DetailsAnalyst CoverageReuters Recommended ReadsFor questions concerning the data in this report, contact Estimates.Support@lseg.com. For any other questions or feedback, contact reuters.support@thomsonreuters.com.(This story was created using…
IGN Entertainment promotes Alex Simmons to lead editorial across its portfolio, with Wesley Yin-Poole overseeing IGN
Company veteran will oversee the firm’s range of editorial brands, including GamesIndustry.biz, while Yin-Poole runs day-to-day editorial on IGN.com
PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ:PENN) reports Q3 2026 in line with expectations
Casino, sports betting and entertainment operator PENN Entertainment NASDAQ:PENNmet Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q3 2026, with revenue up 7.1% year on year to $1.84 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.32 per share was significantly above analysts’ consensus estimates.For more on PENN Entert…
Scientists discover that a clogged filter could revolutionize oil refining
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Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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