Furthering its effort to reduce debt, the AT&T Corporation said yesterday that it would sell some cable television systems in the United States and its stake in Japan Telecom for a total of $3.6 billion.
The leading Internet service provider, America Online Inc., said today that it had struck a half-dozen agreements with major players in the wireless communications arena, furthering its effort to liberate its Web services from the tether of telephone lines.
On Thursday, search engine Ask.com announced it would acquire Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of a stable of Internet reference sites such as Dictionary.com, furthering its effort to enlarge its market share and distinguish itself from other online search leaders.
As with Google's driverless cars, this is a big project that likely won't bear fruit immediately, but it's something the company is making serious investment in, as evidenced by the many acquisitions it has already made to further its efforts.
Turkey has lifted restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language and displays of Kurdish culture in recent years, hoping to further its efforts to join the European Union, but critics say it needs to do much more.
The proposed new designation would allow the agency to apply stricter regulation to broadband service and to further its efforts to expand broadband access to rural areas, particularly where it is not profitable for Internet service providers to offer connections.
There are concerns that South Africa, the continent's biggest economy, will use its position as AU chair to further its efforts to secure a permanent African seat on an expanded UN security council.
With Windows Media and the online music store, Microsoft hopes to further its efforts to make Windows a foundation for its reach beyond the desktop and into the living room.
Following the Academy's promise to carry out a "sweeping series of substantive changes" fix the problem in January, the Academy furthered its efforts in March by adding three non-white members to the board of governors, the group that wields the most power in the organization.
