Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Tue, 01/03/2011 - 08:25 Pearson has begun a legal process to ascertain whether the stake held by its fifth biggest shareholder, the Libyan Investment Authority, needs to be frozen after the government moved to freeze the assets of Muammar Gaddafi and five members of his family. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson c.e.o. John Fallon has paid tribute to employee Dieter Kowalski, who was killed in the Sri Lanka bombings on Easter Sunday. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Facebook Inc. estimated that it will cost as much as $5 billion to resolve a U.S. investigation into its privacy practices, as the social-media giant moves to put the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal behind it. Facebook said Wednesday that it took a $3-billion charge related to... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
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Facebook Inc. estimated that it will cost as much as $5 billion to resolve a U.S. investigation into its privacy practices, as the social-media giant moves to put the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal behind it. Facebook said Wednesday that it took a $3-billion charge related to... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
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The Los Angeles Times won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting Monday for its series of stories that exposed a USC gynecologist accused of sexually abusing hundreds of students during three decades at a campus clinic. Three investigative reporters with The Times — Harriet Ryan, Matt... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fame! If you couldn't get tickets to our Ad Age A-List & Creativity Awards gala on Monday April 15, there's always the American Marketing Association’s Hall of Fame induction at R/GA the following evening. A trio of the ad world’s power brokers are getting their due there: Keith Weed, chief... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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The Maryland Insurance Administration said Friday it expanded its review of insurers involved in donating or selling books self-published by Mayor Catherine Pugh, whose company is now facing multiple investigations. The state regulatory agency said previously it would conduct a so-called targeted... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
[ Baltimore Sun | 2019-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Maryland Insurance Administrator Al Redmer said Thursday that he’s likely to expand his investigation of insurers involved in donations or sales of Mayor Catherine Pugh’s self-published “Healthy Holly” books. The Maryland Insurance Administration — which regulates all insurers in the state — has... Continue reading at Baltimore Sun
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Enthuse Group, a specialist international publishing firm, has announced the acquisition of a 51% stake in AA Media Ltd. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Tanner Pearson scored in the fourth round of the shootout and the Vancouver Canucks kept their faint playoff hopes alive, beating the Los Angeles Kings 3-2 Thursday night. Brock Boeser and Alex Edler scored in regulation for the Canucks, who are seven points behind Colorado for the second... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Los Angeles police opened an investigation Monday after discovering a “large amount” of blood and two swastikas written in blood in and around a bathroom near Pan Pacific Park in the Fairfax area, authorities said. Officers were called to the 100 block of North Gardner Street about 6:45 a.m.,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Bella Pearson talks to Charlotte Eyre about setting up her own children's publisher, Guppy Books, and its launch titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Bella Pearson, the former publishing director at David Fickling Books, is launching her own company in Oxford, focusing on middle-grade and YA fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Pearson has reported making "good financial and strategic progress in 2018", despite a small revenue fall during the year, saying in its January trading update that it expects to have halved net debt in 2018 and will deliver underlying profit growth of 8% at £540-£545m. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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No combination of settings can stop location data being used by advertisers, says reportFacebook targets users with location-based adverts even if they block the company from accessing GPS on their phones, turn off location history in the app, hide their work location on their profile and never... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The attachment that Tanner Pearson has with the No. 14 jersey runs deep. He wore it “my whole life,” from when he was a mite hockey player to the Manchester Monarchs. That ended when he got called up to the Kings in 2013 and wound up being a part of their 2013-14 championship season. “When I got... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education is launching a second investigation into ethnic representation in children’s publishing after receiving funding from Arts Council England. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The All Party Writers Group (APWG) has delayed the report divulging the results of its authors' earnings inquiry until June 2019 to "expand the scope" of the investigation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Profile Books has won a six-way auction to publish former probation officer Eleanor Fellowes’ investigation into the UK’s prison system. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson has disputed the allegations of sexual misconduct that were made public by three women. The famous scientist defended himself in a lengthy Facebook post shortly after Fox and the producers of the television series Cosmos said they had opened... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2018-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook Inc., told employees to investigate the financial interests of billionaire George Soros in response to his January criticism of the social media giant. Sandberg wanted to know if Soros had a financial incentive to criticize Facebook, the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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