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...It was there that he learnt the nuts and bolts of the business, as well as how to do more of what he wanted to do....
...Before then, here is Lex’s breakdown of the deal: Why is Microsoft doing this? For Microsoft, gaming is a fairly small part of the overall business....
...Substack’s top writers are doing pretty well for themselves — its top-ten publishers are grossing more than $15 million annually between them....
...Step forward, the ACI, the Financial Markets Association that is largely a networking and educational group that develops and promotes ethical practices....
...Paul Burns has re-joined Allen & Overy, the law firm, as partner in its corporate/M&A practice in New York. Burns joined the firm in 2001 from Cravath Swaine & Moore....
...The internet “torpedoed the entire business model”, she adds, pointing to the month in 1991 when she put a picture of a heavily pregnant Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair....
...The initial public offering of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the US educational publisher, showed investors remain selective when choosing new listings despite robust demand from companies to tap surging US...
...There are also fewer reasons for publishers to indulge authors partly because technology reveals a truth of the business – it is almost impossible to predict the next bestseller....
...The book forces us to confront similar issues of our time, ranging from the dossier on the Iraqi WMD to the NSA files. ——————————————- BUSINESS Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand...
...Meredith, the US publisher of magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle, had made an approach, two sources said....
...Yell Group, the UK-based directories publisher that this week announced a loss of £1.42bn, hired 51-year-old Scott Moore, a former senior executive at Yahoo and Microsoft, as its digital chief late last...
...But as they are squeezed ever-tighter by new EU rules, some bankers could be driven to mix drugs and machines in a very unhealthy fashion. John Casey, Lex Publisher...
...Technology suppliers are racing to cash in on the surge of interest in online video among businesses, as corporate websites catch up with a trend that began with consumer sites such as YouTube....
...This will, in part, involve selling stakes in assets such as Digital Plus, a Portuguese television business, and Santillana, its educational publisher....
...But, as any publisher will tell you, acquiring your own festive bestseller is anything but an exact science. For every big-money acquisition that succeeds, four or five fail....
...“I really believe strongly in getting out there and talking to as many of our employees and customers as I can, and then using that as a form of stimulation to say: ‘What are we doing right?’...
...The government is also split on a measure designed to prevent supermarkets from causing their suppliers to waste food and then requiring them to accept the cost of doing so....
...educational institutions in areas that were affected by Hurricane Katrina....
...■Succeeded Don Logan in July 2002 as chief executive of Time Inc, the world’s largest magazine publisher. ■Married with one son....
...Achieve all that, and also a sense of flow, that feeling when you are lost in what you are doing, and then the game is a phenomenal educational tool.”...
...As the owner of HarperCollins, however, he was also the unlikely publisher of the hardback edition of Michael Moore’s best-selling polemic Stupid White Men. Business is business....
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