Fox Corp. has agreed to buy the streaming pioneer Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion, including debt.

Roku will continue to be run as an open, partner-friendly platform, the companies said Monday, and there appears to be no immediate changes that customers will see. Fox and Roku said that the combined company will become the third-largest player in U.S. television by share of viewing.

OMAHA — Registered nonpartisan U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn held a roundtable with small business owners Tuesday morning. 

Osborn is currently in a heated Senate race against Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts.

The closed roundtable at Pageturners Lounge was with a handful of business owners who said inflation was the common theme hurting their businesses, as it increases their input costs and leads to less business because consumers have less money to spend. 

Executives are facing pressure from boards, employees, regulators and consumers to either defend or abandon diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Many are retreating from their DEI commitments. But in the rush to respond to political headwinds, a more fundamental question is going unasked: Is inclusion a moral imperative?

As marketing scholars who study consumer ethics and corporate responsibility, we have spent years examining how companies treat the people they serve and what that treatment says about their values.