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...Given the still-big chunk of Microsoft shares sitting in the trust’s books, perhaps low-tech is the point?...
...) Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The campus features a mammoth 1930s-era industrial building where freight trains once disgorged their Manhattan-bound goods....
...Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp will this week vie with German media group Bertelsmann to buy Simon & Schuster in an auction that has become a battle for scale between two of the world’s biggest book publishers...
...(Harvard Business Review) Google’s grand expansion Google has picked San Jose, the US’s 10th most populous city, as the home for its new campus but some residents have raised concerns about how the tech...
...The Boston-headquartered group was on campus that year seeking recruits to build its business in the Lone Star state....
...The unit will be based at Ford’s new advanced vehicle campus in Detroit, outside the company’s main headquarters in nearby Dearborn, and will hold Ford’s ownership stake in Argo AI, its Pittsburgh-based...
...From €8; clausporto.com The last book I read was H Is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald....
...PRH, whose bestsellers include Fifty Shades of Grey and The Girl on the Train, and which recently clinched a $60m book deal with Barack and Michelle Obama, accounts for one in every four books sold globally...
...The lectures were not about helping her fellow classmates earn a living from their art, per se....
...Orders for the year’s fourth-largest transaction hit $34bn, climbing rapidly as banks closed their books, one person familiar with the situation added....
...Mr Ansip said: “People who legally buy content — films, books, football matches, TV series — must be able to carry it with them anywhere they go in Europe....
...She sells her work on posters and phone cases, has a book deal with HarperCollins and is planning a 20-city book tour in the US this year....
...Morgan Securities LLC, the lead book-running managers of the Company’s June 2014 public sale of 20,470,000 shares of Class A common stock, has agreed to release the charitable organization from a lock-up...
..., an imprint of Henry Holt and Company LLC....
...The move followed Tribune’s $2.73bn acquisition of 19 stations from Local TV Holdings LLC in the industry’s biggest transaction in six years....
...(Wall Street Journal) News Corp eyes book publisher: The media company has expressed interest in acquiring Simon & Schuster from CBS, according to people familiar with the talks, which were described as...
...Talks between Bertelsmann and Pearson to combine their Random House and Penguin book publishing houses follow years of the industry forecasting consolidation but failing to do deals....
...Not even close, as this richly reported book by the Wall Street Journal’s Scott Patterson shows. Only a small portion of the shares listed on the NYSE is traded on the NYSE floor – 22 per cent....
...Group sales fell 4 per cent to €7.7bn in 2011 as its publishing division suffered from unflattering comparisons with the previous year, when sales of books by Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series...
...He has diversified into sports management and broadcasting rights, a notoriously difficult market, to try to reduce the company’s reliance on print media advertising and traditional book publishing....
...Qatari sovereign wealth fund as the biggest investor in Lagardère, whose assets range from magazines such as Paris Match and Elle to Hachette, publisher of Stephenie Meyer’s phenomenally successful Twilight books...
...However, everyone in the industry agrees that simply “squashing books into apps” is not enough and not all books work well in an interactive format....
...And while they are eager to win extra business, record order books mean that production slots are limited....
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