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internationally, through partnerships with local operators in the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Germany, Sweden, and other countries in Europe. IGN also owns and operates the primary men’s lifestyle Website, AskMen.com. The company owns Making Fun, Inc. (Making Fun), a social games developer and publisher. Making Fun makes games for various platforms, including Facebook, Android, and iOS, and has launched various games with additional ones in development. Amplify In July 2012, the company launched Amplify, the brand for its education division. Amplify improves K-12 education by creating digital products and services that empower teachers, students, and parents in new ways. Amplify focuses on transforming teaching and learning by creating and scaling digital innovations in three areas, such as analytics and assessment, content and curriculum, and distribution and delivery. Amplify focuses on educational analytics and formative assessment through Wireless Generation, Inc. (Wireless Generation), an Amplify company that serves approximately 200,000 teachers and 3 million students in all 50 states. Its products and services help teachers and administrators assess learning progress throughout the year, differentiate instruction, and adapt curricula to meet individual students’ needs. Other Operations The company has an interest in FOX TV in Turkey, which is a free-to-air, general entertainment television station. News Digital Media is the company’s Australian online division. In addition to maintaining the company’s Australian Websites, News Digital Media is responsible for online advertising and transactions in Australia. News Digital Media sites include news.com.au, MOSHTIX.com.au, GetPrice.com.au, and truelocal.com.au. News Digital Media also has a 50% stake in CareerOne.com.au and carsguide.com.au. Equity Interests BSkyB The company holds an approximate 39% interest in BSkyB. BSkyB operates the primary pay television broadcast service in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as broadband and telephony services. BSkyB acquires and commissions programming to broadcast on its own channels and supplies certain of those channels to cable operators for retransmission by the cable operators to their subscribers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. BSkyB also retails channels (both its own and those of third parties) to DTH subscribers and to certain of its own channels to various DSL subscribers. FOX Sports Australia The company holds a 50% interest in Premier Media Group, a producer of sports channels, commonly referred to as FOX Sports Australia. FOXTEL The company, Telstra Corporation Limited, an Australian telecommunications company, and Consolidated Media Holdings Ltd., an Australian media investment company, own and operate FOXTEL, a cable and satellite television service in Australia with 25%, 50%, and 25% interests, respectively. As of June 30, 2012, FOXTEL had approximately 2.2 million residential subscribers (including subscribers to Optus, an Australian telecommunications company, and subscribers acquired as a result of FOXTEL’s acquisition of Austar United Communications Ltd in May 2012). Other Investments SkyNZ: The company owns an approximate 44% interest in Sky Network Television Limited, a land-linked UHF network and digital DBS service in New Zealand. Hulu, LLC (Hulu): The company has an approximate 32% equity interest in Hulu, which operates an online video service that offers video content from Fox, NBC Universal, The Walt Disney Company, and approximately 300 other third party content licensors. Hulu’s premium programming is available free of charge to viewers at Hulu.com and approximately 30 destination sites online, including AOL, IMDb, MSN, Myspace China Holdings Limited, and Yahoo!. Additional premium programming is available on a monthly subscription basis at Hulu.com and through software applications on Internet-connected devices, including smart phones, tablets, gaming consoles, and set-top boxes. Sky Deutschland: The company owns a 49.9% equity interest in Sky Deutschland, the primary pay television operator in Germany and Austria. The core business