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...Smart reads The sound of money Music’s most infamous dealmaker Merck Mercuriadis is raising billions from investors to amass a mega collection of hits....
...Meredith Corporation is exploring a break-up of Time Inc that would include shedding some of its best-known titles, including Time magazine and Sports Illustrated, once it acquires the 95-year-old publisher...
...Time Inc has been sold to rival media group Meredith Corporation in a deal valued at $2.8bn and backed by the Koch brothers, giving the conservative billionaires a stake in one of America’s best-known publishers...
..., Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music....
...A simple curtain doubled the talent pool, creating amazing music and transforming what orchestras look like. But why did it take so long? Consider the following image and compare squares A and B....
...of America....
...plans to buy EMI’s music publishing business....
...When Citigroup took control of EMI from its private equity owner Terra Firma last year and sold its music publishing business to a group led by Sony, much of the finance came from GSO, the credit arm of...
...However, Mr Wiesenthal, chief financial officer of Sony Corporation of America and chief strategy officer of Sony Entertainment, has the task of pulling together the complex financing needed to pull a deal...
...Amazon has replicated Apple’s system by creating a device that plugs into a content “ecosystem” of digital books, music, video and magazines on its servers....
...A survey by the Pew Research Center last year found they were still America’s best-loved band....
...He rattles off a dizzying list of brand extensions: three new websites dealing with fashion, pets and risqué celebrity photos; a music company; a TV production company; and a boy-band search with 19 Entertainment...
...Their music was stirring and anthemic; a shared Christian background invested it with a passion to reach out....
..., Time Inc’s Ann Moore asked this year....
...Kreuger, a swindler of epic proportions, shot himself in his splendid Parisian apartment in 1932 rather than the face the music. Various inventor suicides elicit greater sympathy....
...The brightest talents from across the world were drawn not just by job prospects but by the thrill of a city that was producing cutting-edge music, art, fashion, food and media....
...Thomas Rabe, Bertelsmann’s chief financial officer, will on Monday hold further talks with Rob Wiesenthal, his counterpart at Sony Corporation of America....
...As in music, so in porn – why buy a whole movie if all you want is a clip? What to do?...
...Warner Music and a book publishing unit were sold but those were smallish divisions and the shares barely budged....
...The Murdoch family, in the form of its patriarch Rupert, has transformed News Corporation from a regional newspaper company in Australia to a global enterprise led by its film and pay-television divisions...
...He is formerly chief executive of the YES Network and of Tele-Communications Inc (TCI) and its successor AT&T Broadband. His latest book is It Takes a CEO: It’s Time to Lead with Integrity...
...Since then he has built an enormous portfolio of businesses across Latin America and single-handedly accounts for a substantial chunk of the Mexican stock market....
...The iconic music player has also given critical mass to an entirely new market – the selling of digital music online....
...America boasts the world’s most successful and dynamic corporations. Companies such as Microsoft, Intel and Dell are leading the 21st century’s technological revolution....
...Geschke, Founder and Chairman, Adobe Systems, Inc. Charles K. Gifford, Chairman, Bank of America Corporation Rob Glaser, Founder, Chairman and CEO, RealNetworks, Inc. Donald J....
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