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...While during the pandemic parents embraced online education, now “parents want their children to go back to school and reduce their screen time”....
...The Japanese group has liquidated almost all of the holdings in its internal hedge fund after racking up between $6bn and $7bn in losses....
...Finback was considering buying a stake in Gideon Cyber Systems LLC, according to the term sheet....
...Any profits would be split between the holding company and the LLC partners....
...YouTube’s website was replaced with a picture of a monkey holding a hammer, and the message: “Something went wrong.” The affected services began to come back online after 12.30pm GMT....
...Younger donors such as Jobs and Chan, who pioneered the use of LLCs, are heralding “a reckoning with the tools of philanthropy”, Brakman Reiser says....
...“Education is a fragmented market and we want to further consolidate this market.”...
...The BBC-led group’s next steps will include holding working groups on media literacy education, voter information, and sharing lessons on how to handle problems arising during elections....
...Valuing Alphabet, Google’s holding company, requires multiple hats. There are many moving parts to consider as well as a lot of negative headlines....
...It is easy to see why the former academic, who prefers a two-way discussion to holding court, has remained there....
...(FT) News round-up India’s Oyo Rooms hotel chain buys @Leisure for €369m (FT) Warren Buffett’s Occidental deal is no ‘elephant’ but it helps (FT) McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage plan merger (FT) SoftBank...
...Mr Bezos is the company’s largest shareholder, with a 16 per cent holding valued at more than $130bn....
...The two beverage giants, as well as JAB Holding’s Keurig Dr Pepper business, are rapidly retooling their portfolios....
...(I can’t wait to read his upcoming tell-all book, Zucked: The Education of an Unlikely Activist, out from Penguin in February 2019.) He has also been in the game for over 40 years....
The campuses of elite universities are favoured hunting grounds for many investment groups
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Grande Holdings, China Yuhua Education and Emperor International....
...nationally and consolidate an education market that has largely been dominated by regional players....
...Bertelsmann, which was founded in 1835 as a publisher of hymnbooks, paid $780m for a 22 per cent stake in PRH, bringing its interest in the company to 75 per cent, with Pearson holding the remaining 25 per...
...Blythe Masters has become the public face of the blockchain industry since leaving JPMorgan Chase to become chief executive of Digital Asset Holdings....
...A US appeals court ruling involving the 2012 reorganisation of Education Management Corporation is expected shortly....
...In the first quarter, Apollo made three big deals — ADT Security Services, The Fresh Market and Apollo Education....
...It is handling the digital transition well and non-profit education publishing is recession-proof, apparently....
...The group also increased its offer to buy out Apollo Education, the for-profit provider, from $9.50 to $10 a share this week after launching a takeover bid in the first quarter....
...Leslie-Ann Reed, a non-executive director of Aim-traded Learning Technologies Group, recently parted with £119,000 to bump up her holding in the digital education business by another 350,000 shares....
...“The biggest factor is client education,” Ms Cogan says. “The fund managers we work with have been very accommodating.”...
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