Canada to Impose "Digital Tax" on Silicon Valley Giants

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe 2021 NewFronts week-long marketing pitchfest for digital media, video and TV has been scheduled for next spring, with the event to reprise the virtual streaming format adopted in 2020 because of the COVID pandemic.Next year’s IAB NewFronts will be held May 3-7, 2021, set to showcase digital, streaming and linear video creators and publishers.

The Trotters suffered their heaviest defeat at the University of Bolton Stadium at the hands of the Valiants last weekend. Wanderers went behind early on thanks to goals from Manny Oyeleke and Leon Legge, before Gethin Jones halved the deficit shortly after.Tom Conlon added a third from the penalty spot before the break and Cristian Montano scored Vale's fourth a minute after the restart.David Worrall added the Valiants' fifth and Nathan Smith headed home their sixth just after the hour mark.Eoin Doyle fired in his seventh goal of the season afterwards while Lloyd Isgrove scored Wanderers' third as full-time approached.

Bothwell crash victim Jamie Williamson has been blasted by his furious friends and family. The JustGiving page, set up under the name of Kay Fraser, was launched just days after the 36-year-old lost his life in a horrific car accident on December 4.

Rio Ferdinand says he expects the remaining Premier League giants to go deep into the Champions League, but he still picks Bayern Munich as favourites.

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Shelby, 27, welcomed her first child last month with long term boyfriend, Sam Mucklow and has documented her journey to motherhood with her fans.In the snap, Abel was dressed in a cute blue romper paired with matching vest as he clenched his fists while glaring at his doting mother, reports The Mirror.Captioning the post, Shelby wrote as though the update was coming from Abel himself and said: "I don't do mornings..."While hundreds flocked to the comment section, noting the similarity between the youngster, one vile troll penned: "ugliest effin thing I've seen [sic]."Shelby later took to her Instagram Stories and wasn't afraid to speak her mind, sharing a screengrab of the comment and the users Instagram handle.She penned: "I am so angry.

Hunter Biden has announced that he is being investigated by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware over his “tax affairs.”

EXCLUSIVE: Avraham Aviv Alush, the Israeli star of HBO Max’s Valley of Tears, has inked with 3 Arts.

Paisley town centre parking row. Police have launched a hunt for the disgusting lout who gobbed on a 30-year-old woman through her car window in Causeyside Street.The incident unfolded on Monday morning outside Cash Converters, officers investigating have revealed.

direct to your inboxAndy Burnham is planning to freeze the element of council tax bills that pays for mayoral functions next April.The precept - which is used for a number of Greater Manchester-level purposes, including part-funding the fire service and mayoral priorities such as free bus passes for young people - will stay as it is under proposals that will go before council leaders in the New Year.That would see the mayoral charge stay at £70.73 for a Band B property.Last April, the precept was increased to raise more funding for the fire service alongside an extra £5.4m for the mayor’s political priorities and is likely to rise again in 2022 if plans to take control of the Greater Manchester bus network proceed.

Dior - a cruise collection that’s previously been showcased in Tokyo and Miami - the designer might not have been able to jump on a flight to afar flung locale, but he could certainly take us on a trip. A cosmic explosion and swirling, multi-hued masses of matter acted as the backdrop to the collection, which Jones said in a Zoom call previously was about “a sense of joy and optimism”. This came via an artistic medium - his third time teaming up with an artist on his cruise collections - in the form of Kenny Scharf, an American artist who cut his teeth in the creative cauldron of the Lower East Side in the 1890s, whose work has been categorised as “modern graffiti”, “Pop Surrealism” and “street art”.

direct to your inboxCouncil tax in Manchester could rise by almost five per cent next year as the council continues to grapple with the economic fallout from Covid-19.Town hall bosses say the move, which would be taken with ‘a heavy heart’, could raise £8.5m to prevent cuts to frontline services such as adult social care.The government is allowing local authorities to increase council tax by just under two per cent, plus an additional three per cent to meet social care demands.Manchester had been staring at a £105m funding black hole in its finances for 2021/22 having seen care costs rise and income fall during the pandemic.The blow on the council’s coffers has been softened by the announcement of one-off government funding, which has led

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.The First Minister has committed to the long-term future of two Vale wards which had the threat of temporary closure hanging over them.Speaking in parliament, Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that cover has now been secured for the Fruin and Katrine wards.It follows concerns raised last week that the dementia wards may have had to temporarily close due to a lack of locum cover.However, West Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership (WDHSCP), which operate the wards, has confirmed it has been able to secure the cover.Jim Moohan, chair of Hospitalwatch, said it would be welcome relief for staff and family members of ward patients.He said: “It’s a very

EXCLUSIVE: Painless Productions, the company behind Travel Channel series The Dead Files and The Holzer Files, has teamed up with LooseWorld and author Brian McCullough to develop non-fiction series set in Silicon Valley.

Following in the footsteps of many media companies this year, the BBC is shifting its focus significantly towards its digital offerings, with a major restructuring focused on the growth of its iPlayer platform. Led by chief content officer Charlotte Moore, the restructuring scraps previous individual channel controller roles at the U.K.

For the latest news from in and around Wigan sign up to the MyWigan newsletter hereFinance bosses are expecting a rise in council tax for Wigan residents for the first time in seven years as the town hall tries to tackle a £25m shortfall.Senior council officers say that government grants will plug some of the gap but an increase in council tax has been factored into the latest calculations.Councillors will ultimately set the rate at the annual budget meeting next year.But Wigan council's assistant director of finance Tony Clarke told a scrutiny committee on Monday that officers will 'probably' recommend the rate rises.He said: "We've shied away from council tax rises for six, seven years at least now."We're at a position where, whilst it's

The Trotters had been on a five game-winning run in all competitions heading into the encounter, while the Valiants had lost their last five matches on the bounce before the visit to the University of Bolton Stadium. Ian Evatt's side went behind early on thanks to goals from Manny Oyeleke and Leon Legge before Gethin Jones halved the deficit shortly after.Tom Conlon added a third from the penalty spot before the break and Cristian Montano scored Vale's fourth a minute after the restart.David Worrall added the Valiants' fifth and Nathan Smith headed home their sixth just after the hour mark.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe BBC, like most major media organizations in 2020, is betting big on digital, with new plans afoot to energize the growth of the U.K.

League Of Legends has been discovered in Ubisoft’s recently released Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla.Jared Rosen, who serves as the narrative lead for skins and thematic development at Riot Games, took to social media on Monday (December 7) to share the newly discovered Easter egg in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla.Check out his tweet below.there's a League ref in AC Valhalla, hah!https://t.co/fUwSHUbFZE pic.twitter.com/oB76V6UmyL— Demon Apologist (@notquitefrodo) December 7, 2020The Easter egg is activated when Eivor speaks to an NPC named Bristan while hunting for wild boars during one of the game’s side quests.

Millions of children will be put at greater risk of exploitation and grooming by plans from tech giants to expand encrypted messaging, the Children’s Commissioner for England has warned.

Cable operator Charter Communications, in which John Malone's Liberty Broadband owns a big stake, expects to continue selling video services successfully despite high programming costs. But over time Hollywood giants' growing focus on direct-to-consumer services could make paying for content bundles untenable, chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge suggested during a virtual investor conference on Monday.