German media giant Bertelsmann said on Wednesday that its Penguin Random House division is buying rival Simon Schuster in a megadeal that would reshape the U.S. publishing industry.Penguin Random
“Hi, I’m Rivers from the band, Weezer,” Rivers Cuomo says with a slight smile and a wave. He turns away from the camera for a bit, before launching into his best infomercial pitch. “Imagine you’re on
Earlier today, we had the chance to talk with Twitter and Medium cofounder Ev Williams, along with operator-turned investor James Joaquin, who helps oversee the day-to-day of the mission-focused ventu
Digital PR is an excellent strategy to pair with content marketing, especially if your goals include increasing your brand awareness and improving your backlink portfolio.When you create excellent con
02:24 Twelve years ago, the Wall Street financial crisis dragged the world into a heavy economic recession. At the time, the G20, whose members account for over 85 percent of the globa
Uber today released its latest diversity report, showing a decline in the overall representation of Black employees in the U.S. despite an increased focus on racial justice this year in the wake of t
We already knew there was a big trend towards remote working, and this has only been drastically accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the distractions of daily life can easily impin
03:04 An exhibition showcasing illustrations from Europe and America is now on display at Tsinghua University Art Museum in Beijing.A total of 180 works are on display
Shane Bieber (L) of the Cleveland Indians of the American League and Trevor Bauer of the Cincinnati Reds of the National League win this year's Cy Young Awards. /CFP Trevor Bauer of the Cincin
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force teachers, students and parents to adopt new technologies, edtech’s total addressable market has massively grown in the last several months. The shift has ur
China's 6th national poetry festival opened in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Sunday, becoming the first national-level cultural festival to be held offline since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
Ten out of 48 French-to-Chinese translation works made it to the final list of the Prix Fu Lei 2020 (Fu Lei Prize). The final result of the 10 works — five books on social sciences and five literary t
Last year, payments giant Stripe announced that it would donate $1 million of its own funds annually into companies that are building technology to remove carbon from our environment, with the recipie
The entire asset class of venture capital is built atop systemic racism. The numbers don’t lie: only 2% of partner-level VCs are Black, and 81% of venture capital firms don’t have a Black partner on b
In memory of the death of Quibi, here’s a quick sendoff from four of our writers who came together to discuss what we can learn from Quibi’s amazing, instantaneous, billions-of-dollars fa
Earlier this year, WordPress .com introduced an easier way to post your Twitter threads, also known as tweetstorms, to your blog with the introduction of the “unroll” option for Twitter e
As paid newsletters grow in popularity, Snigdha Sur, the founder of South Asian-focused media company The Juggernaut, has no qualms about avoiding the approach entirely. In October 2017, Sur started T
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