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...The publishing company founded by Felix Dennis, the late media entrepreneur, has been sold for £166m to private equity firm Exponent....
...Baker is an MIT Media Lab Research affiliate with the Open Agriculture Initiative, and a board member of OpenMRS Inc, which develops open source medical records systems for use in resource-constrained environments...
...At the other end of the FTSE 100 table, Pearson slid 16 per cent to 998.3p after the education publishing company reported a 4 per cent fall in revenues and cut its full-year profit targets to reflect adverse...
...Time Warner is finalising an investment in Vice Media that would value the maverick digital media and publishing group at more than $2bn, according to people familiar with the situation....
...Unexpurgated Dennis Felix Dennis, the publishing entrepreneur who has died, was a hoot to interview. Backstage at a poetry reading, Lombard struggled to obtain a quote free of the F word....
...Twenty-First Century Fox has taken a 5 per cent stake in Vice Media, the digital media and publishing group that brought basketball player Dennis Rodman to North Korea, in a deal that values the company...
...working to get writers’ work out to even more markets – as a literary agency we are doing deals in markets that didn’t exist even six months ago, for example by working with Amazon to publish writers such as Dennis...
...Dennis Johnson, head of Melville House, a Brooklyn book publisher, said that because of the boycott traditional publishing houses could offer authors a presence in book stores that Amazon could not....
...Dennis Johnson, co-founder of Melville House, a small publisher in Brooklyn, said he was concerned that Barnes & Noble appeared to be reducing its commitment to bricks-and-mortar stores and to the bulk buying...
...Alpha Natural Resources , the metallurgical coal supplier, gained 6 per cent to $8.19....
...of US publishing house Melville House....
...Shanda Interactive, a Chinese video game and entertainment media company, said on Monday that it had filed with US regulators to sell shares in Cloudary, an online publishing unit....
...Californian start-up Blippy, for example, allows its users to share information about things they buy by automatically publishing online credit card transactions, Amazon purchases or iTunes downloads....
...will be “few and far between”, says Spark Capital general partner Dennis Miller....
...British publishing maverick Felix Dennis finally has a deal to sell his American magazine empire to the Quadrangle Group for a price tag of $240m-$250m, reports the New York Post (via DealBook)....
...In spite of that performance, Tribune shares gained 3.8 per cent to $28.20 by the close of trade – spurred after chief executive Dennis FitzSimons insisted that an $8.2bn buy-out of the company by Sam Zell...
...In a statement, Dennis FitzSimons, Tribune’s chief executive, said the company had received “strong interest from a number of parties”....
...The future of Tribune is now an open question after Dennis FitzSimons, chief executive, said on Thursday that the company had appointed a special committee to review alternatives....
...Mr Young says the competition here is coming not just from the traditional media companies – although they are hungrily acquiring new media assets as their audience fragments – but from the new breed of...
...Dennis FitzSimons, Tribune chief executive, struck a conciliatory tone when asked about his dealings with the Chandler family, which last month publicly blasted the company’s strategy and called for it to...
...Barely 10 months ago, Lord Black was master of all he surveyed: chairman of Hollinger Inc, the dominant shareholder in Hollinger International, the US-listed publishing group that he built over almost 20...
...Fisher, Chairman, Gap, Inc....
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