Publishing
Pearson sells 22% stake in Penguin Random House to Bertelsmann for $1 bn
11 Jul 2017
Pearson, which in recent years sold some of its best known assets, including the Financial Times and the Economist, said it would now reduce its stake in the world's biggest consumer book publisher
Google funds project for robots to write news stories
08 Jul 2017
Journalists will now have to be on their toes, as Google is funding a project under which a UK news agency will use artificial intelligence to create up to 30,000 automated news stories a month
Hitting the right note with ‘The Write Place’
02 Jun 2016
Kinjal Shah, CEO, Crossword Bookstores talks to Swetha Amit about The Write Place, a new initiative introduced over the last one year to encourage budding authors get themselves published, and other initiatives
Google to work with publishers and Twitter to create new kind of web link and article storage system
12 Sep 2015
Pearson to sell stake in The Economist to Agnelli family for $731 mn
13 Aug 2015
Within three weeks of the sale of its popular Financial Times (FT) business newspaper, British publisher and education major Pearson Plc has sold a significant chunk of the coveted weekly publication The Economist