Laura Hazard Owen
Jan 21, 2012 10:00 AM
The battle for the college digital textbook market—including startups like Inkling and Kno—gets a fair amount of attention. But the K-12 textbook business that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) now seeks to revolutionize is much less talked about outside of education circles.
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Laura Hazard Owen
Aug 12, 2011 9:14 AM
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) Australia’s acquisition of REDGroup’s online business, including the Borders Australia website and the website of bookstore chain Angus & Robertson, won’t give Pearson-owned publisher Penguin a monopoly over Australia’s e-book supply chain, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has decided.
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Laura Hazard Owen
Aug 3, 2011 9:20 AM
Just in time for the back-to-school season, iPad interactive textbook publisher Inkling has secured $17 million in Series B funding from investors including Tenaya Capital, Pearson (NYSE: PSO) Education, Jafco Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
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Laura Hazard Owen
Jul 5, 2011 10:05 AM
A day after Pearson (NYSE: PSO) Australia announced plans to buy REDGroup’s online business—including Borders Australia‘s website and the website of bookstore chain Angus & Robertson—the Australian Booksellers Association has asked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to launch an investigation into the deal.
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Patrick Smith
Oct 15, 2008 10:21 AM
In times of financial crisis, one of the few things to benefit is the financial media. And that may go some way to explain why Financial Times publisher Pearson (NYSE: PSO) today reported that FT Group’s revenues have risen by 11 percent in the last nine months while at FT…
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Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Money, Earnings, Companies, Pearson, Financial Times, FT.com, pearson
Rafat Ali
Apr 27, 2008 12:58 PM
Some filings deep-dive this weekend: —Pearson: According to its annual report, filed with SEC on Friday, Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the parent Financial Times and FT.com, acquired Money-Media, an online news source for the money management industry, in Jan this year. The terms were not disclosed then, but in the filing,…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jan 3, 2008 10:13 AM
FT publisher Pearson (NYSE: PSO) has acquired Money-Media, an online news source for the money management industry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although the announcement states that NYC-based Money-Media had revenue of $16 million in 2007. Money-Media CEO Michael D. Griffin had been the sole voting shareholder. Through…
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