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...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the FT’s US business editor Publishing’s digital decade The digital boom of the 2010s set the publishing industry spinning, with technology creating new opportunities as well...
...In 1972, Jules Kroll took skills he had honed exposing those who demanded kickbacks from the family printing business to found what became Kroll Inc....
...“What we’re really doing is putting the pedal to the floor, stepping on it and trying to grow as fast as we can,” he says....
...assets; and Bertelsmann is funding its acquisition ambitions in areas such as music publishing by selling part of its RTL television stake....
...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...
...Even for someone as competitively normal as Stella McCartney, who somehow manages to take the position that – despite her status as a 40-year-old international fashion brand/Olympic outfitter/daughter of...
...Mr Smith, whose career began at PolyGram video, where he hit on the idea of selling videos of stand-up comedians, has a consulting and non-compete agreement with NBCU International for a year....
...Mr Grainge, a London-born former song-plugger, earned a reputation as a shrewd businessman with an ear for a hit in any genre from pop to rap while running Universal’s UK operations, where he helped launch...
...of SFR to Vodafone for a song....
...He stresses that he will remain as hands-on as ever, spending half his time in New York, and says his closer oversight of an international business that has never matched Warner’s clout in the US should...
...Bill Roedy, chairman and chief executive of MTV International, who started at HBO in the same week as Bewkes, remembers the late 1970s and early 1980s as the golden years of cable....
...I should think of myself as a servant to this master. I should be an employee and an employee who is doing a bloody good job.’” And what would a good job be?...
...McGuinness, it turns out, is a man of many useful friends. (As he runs me through the story of how he came to U2 he loses me in a list of names as long as the cast of an Irish Russian novel)....
...Mr Smith, the former UK managing director of Polygram Filmed Entertainment has set out more detailed plans than his predecessors, which will see brands such as the Sci-Fi Channel, 13th Street and the Universal...
...“New devices like the iPhone and new innovative services like MusicStation will help us drive the digital music business forward at a faster rate,” said Rob Wells, senior vice-president at Universal’s international...
...I met Rob Wells, digital supremo of Universal Music Group International, at the Carlton Hotel for breakfast....
...Many bloggers were as unimpressed now as they were at the time of the Google.cn launch....
...He has already served as head of marketing at Warner Brothers and Columbia Pictures in the 1970s, and then as president of PolyGram Films....
...Yet a rapid international expansion to reduce its reliance on US domestic sports is just one of many developments underway at ESPN as the global leader fashions itself for the future of sports broadcasting...
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