The gift, from a consortium of corporations that includes General Motors, Sun Microsystems, Electronic Data Systems and UGS, a technology management company, will allow Howard to move its advanced engineering programs to a new level, said H. Patrick Swygert, president of the university, which is historically black.
The unit of News Corporation that includes MySpace is profitable, but the advertising slump has slowed the site's revenue growth.
The bin Laden family owns and runs a five-billion-dollar-a-year global corporation that includes the largest construction firm in the Islamic world, with offices in London and Geneva.
After Mr. Chapman's death in 1982, ownership of the company passed through a number of hands before it was acquired by General Motors, then Bugatti and finally, in stages, by Proton Holdings Berhad, a multinational corporation that includes Proton, a leading carmaker in Malaysia.
The MySpace announcement is unrelated to the recent F.T.C. hearings on online advertising — rather, it was timed to the start of Ad Tech, a digital advertising conference in New York, according to Michael Barrett, chief revenue officer for Fox Interactive Media, the unit of the News Corporation that includes MySpace.
He would do so by limiting "tax expenditures," the costly tax breaks for corporations and individuals that include the mortgage-interest deduction — an idea recommended in December by a majority of Mr. Obama's fiscal commission and lately by the president.
Other residence ship projects that have been reported include the America World City, proposed by the World City Corporation with investors that include Westin Hotels and Resorts, and Freedom Ship, the barge-like craft proposed by Freedom Ship International, which anticipates 40,000 residents living on a 25-story ship.
The projected increase in political advertising is due in part to the Supreme Court decision that removed limits on spending by independent expenditure groups that include corporations and unions.
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