Press Digest: Wall Street Journal - Sept 22
22/09/2023 06:45
Sept 22 (Reuters) - Following are the top stories in the
Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and
does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chair of Fox Corp
FOXA.O and News Corp NWSA.O , after building a media empire
over seven decades that revolutionized news and entertainment
and made him one of the world's most influential and
controversial tycoons.
- Cisco Systems CSCO.O has struck a $28 billion deal to
buy analytics and security-software company Splunk as the
networking-equipment giant looks to tap further into the rise of
artificial intelligence.
- 3M MMM.N has agreed to pay more than $9.6 million to
settle a probe by the U.S. Treasury Department into sales to an
Iranian entity controlled by the country's law enforcement
forces.
- The Biden administration's antitrust cops sued one of the
country's biggest anesthesiology providers, U.S. Anesthesia
Partners on Thursday, launching a novel assault on Wall Street
ownership of healthcare companies.
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
((globalnewsmonitoring@thomsonreuters.com))