Book Publisher News
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Bertelsmann SE, Europe’s biggest media company, said first-quarter operating profit grew as the company trimmed costs and took full control of its BMG music- rights business.
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“Iron Man 3” burst into theaters with $174.1 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, giving Walt Disney Co.’s Marvel division its second straight mega-hit to start a summer movie season.
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David Nosal, former regional managing director at Korn/Ferry International, was convicted of trade-secret theft and hacking for gaining access to the job- search firm’s proprietary database of executives.
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ZTE Corp., China’s second-biggest maker of mobile-phone equipment, signed a patent-licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. for technology used in smartphones and tablet computers.
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Pearson Plc’s Penguin offered to overhaul pricing models for digital books to settle a European Union antitrust probe into whether they blocked competition.
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Bring a bunch of French geeks together, add millions of random entries from Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr, stir and serve. What do you get? From one Paris-based startup: A hefty dose of math -- and a faceoff between U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian singer Justin Bieber.
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Bertelsmann SE’s Random House won European Union approval to buy Pearson Plc’s Penguin unit to create the largest book publisher in the U.K. and the U.S.
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Bertelsmann SE, Europe’s largest media company, is raising as much as 1.6 billion euros ($2.1 billion) from the sale of a stake in broadcasting unit RTL Group SA to gain funds for acquisitions.
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The bad news is that the zombie invasion has already begun. The good news? Margaret Atwood is safely holed up in Toronto’s CN Tower.
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Bertelsmann SE, Europe’s largest media company, will add a Frankfurt listing for its RTL Group SA unit, seeking to appeal to a broader base of investors as it prepares to cut its stake in the broadcaster.
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