In this Sept. 20, 2017 file photo, former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
NEW YORK (AP) --
Showtime has won a bidding war to develop former President Bill Clinton and powerhouse author James Patterson's upcoming thriller, "The President is Missing," into a television series.
The network announced the deal Friday, months away from the book's publication next June.
In the collaboration with Patterson, Clinton provides an insider's perspective of having been in the White House. It's the first time that Clinton has helped write fiction.
Showtime's affiliation with CBS, and the corporation's boss Leslie Moonves, helped seal the deal. Moonves knows Clinton, and Patterson helps with the production of the CBS series "Zoo" and "Instinct."
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Google has offered to make major changes to its business practices to resolve a European Union antitrust case targeting its ad-tech business, but they don't include breaking up the company.
The compliance plan Google submitted to the European Commission — the 27-nation bloc's top antitrust enforcer — includes "immediate product changes" to end specific practices, the company said in a blog post.
"Our proposal fully addresses the EC's decision without a disruptive break-up that would harm the thousands of European publishers and advertisers who use Google tools to grow their business," the company said Friday.
Google also said it's appealing the commission's decision to slap the company with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.4 billion) fine in September for breaching the bloc's competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services. It accused Google of abusing its dominance by favoring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of competitors, online advertisers and publishers.
As part of the punishment, Google was also required to come up with proposals to end what the Commission called "self-preferencing practices" and stop "conflicts of interest."
The Commission said it would force Google to sell off parts of its business if it wasn't satisfied with the company's proposed remedies.
Google's changes include giving publishers more pricing options on its ad management platform. To address conflicts of interest, the company is modifying its ad tools to give publishers and advertisers more choice and flexibility.
"We will now analyse Google's proposed measures to assess whether they effectively bring the self-preferencing practices to an end and address the situation of inherent... Read More
