Publishing
Hugh Hefner bids $185 million to buy out Playboy
12 Jul 2010
Hefner has offered to buy all shares of PEI he doesn't currently own, for $5.50 per share in cash, a premium of about 40 per cent to its Friday's closing price.
Next Gen Publishing introduces online editions
05 Jun 2010
Ziff Davis acquired by former Time exec Vivek Shah, Great Hill Partners
05 Jun 2010
83 year-old New York-headquartered Ziff Davis is a leading publisher and content creator for the web, and other digital platforms including smart phones, e-readers and tablet devices
Playboy puts on its pyjamas for new sites
08 May 2010
Times loses ground to Dainik Jagran as most-read paper: IRS
06 May 2010
The Times of India has lost readership, along with five of the top 10 English dailies - The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, The Economic Times and DNA. while the readership of Hindustan Times, The New Indian Express, Mid-Day and Mumbai Mirror has gone up
Washington Post Co. puts loss making Newsweek up for sale
06 May 2010
The Washington Post Co. said yesterday that it is putting its popular, but loss making, Newsweek up for sale after having failed to stem losses from 2007.
Mid-Day to merge newspaper business with Jagran Prakashan
05 May 2010
Publishing group Mid-day Multimedia Ltd that publishes the Mid-Day and Inqulab newspapers today announced the merger of its newspaper business with Jagran Prakashan Ltd
Penguin India announces Shobhaa De Books
By By Shalini R Menon | 14 Apr 2010
Better Capital gives Reader's Digest UK a new life
10 Apr 2010
Reader's Digest's UK arm was given a new lease of life yesterday after it was bought out of administration by private equity firm Better Capital, a company backed by British venture capitalist Jon Moulton
RR Donnelley to acquire Bowne for $481 million
26 Feb 2010
Reader's Digest UK arm under administration
17 Feb 2010
CA ventures into publishing with CA Press
02 Feb 2010
Guardian.co.uk most popular UK newspaper site
24 Dec 2009
HT in exclusive pact with The Washington Post
23 Dec 2009
Pluribus acquires eight brands from Nielsen
12 Dec 2009
Amazon and Penguin invites entries for award
11 Dec 2009
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
.jpg "India, Nigeria agree on local currency settlement system")
