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...The stand-off is among the most heated clashes between tech giants and media groups in recent memory, as they battle for control over the future of entertainment....
...Earlier this year, the group, which is controlled by the billionaire family of its founder and noted corporate raider Vincent Bolloré, also completed a deal to buy Lagardère, a publishing and retail business...
...Cori Crider, a director at tech justice group Foxglove, called the approach “short-sighted”....
...Success for its employees was measured through publishing work in top-tier scientific journals like Nature....
...The group boycotting the journal, which was established in 1994, wrote: “We no longer identify with the aims, scope or undemocratic practices and processes underpinning the journal, and we have no trust...
...Its shares are now worth about $2.1bn, a handsome windfall to their publishing empire, which also includes Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Vogue....
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...The companies had been battling multiple regulatory challenges, with the European Commission publishing a statement of objections to the deal last month, arguing the takeover could “significantly reduce...
...Private equity group KKR is in advanced talks to acquire Simon & Schuster from media group Paramount for more than $1.6bn. Other bidders include Rupert Murdoch’s HarperCollins....
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...The Japan Exchange Group, which controls the Tokyo and Osaka exchanges, told companies in March that it wanted to see progress towards lifting corporate value — a critical catalyst in helping the country...
...Douglas Preston, a best-selling author and previous president of The Authors Guild, said that financial groups were “profoundly ignorant of publishing”....
...On behalf of 17 music publishers including Sony Music Group and Universal Music Publishing Group, the National Music Publishers’ Association filed a suit in the federal district court of Nashville alleging...
...He made an enemy of Peter Thiel, the technology investor, by publishing a blog post about Thiel being gay and commenting loftily under it....
...Ultimately, he quit the advertising game and opened art gallery and consultancy The Black Eye, which focused on design for nonprofits and publishing houses....
...In the past five years, Sony has gone on an acquisition spree to expand its entertainment assets, buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and spending $1.2bn to acquire AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll...
...Starboard plans to recommend News Corp spin off its digital real estate division, which includes a stake in Australian online property site operator REA Group and Realtor.com parent Move Inc The activist...
...They are less keen on Vice’s online publishing business, where they will look to cut costs. But Fortress has no current plans to shutter Vice News, according to people close to the situation....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 12 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...She addressed the use of algorithms by saying that “all publishing requires organisation” and that these “features [are] inherent in all publishing”....
...This article has been updated to clarify that Higg Inc has rebranded as Worldly, not the Higg Index as incorrectly stated in a previous version. ...
...“The fact that our global book publishing group is in such a strong position today is largely thanks to Markus Dohle,” he added....
...The company had been in advanced talks to sell its 80 per cent share of Move Inc to rival property listings group CoStar, in a deal valued in the “low billions” of dollars, the Financial Times reported last...
...The Department of Justice last year sued to block the publishing megamerger, alleging the combined group would control more than two-thirds of the market for acquiring publishing rights, spanning authors...
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