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Comcast has jumped into the fray for Sky with a $39.5b cash offer, challenging Rupert Murdoch and Disney and opening the possibility of a bidding contest for the UK's biggest pay-TV company.
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A professor of management at Melbourne University says unis have only done lip service towards lifting their productivity.
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