Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi shared responsibility for corruption by his company Fininvest in a 1990s battle to buy a publishing company, a judge said Monday in an explanation of a court ruling over the weekend.
A client of the firm was interested in buying a publishing company, and the partners wanted someone who looked as if he would fit in on the music scene.
In 1985, he shelled out $47.5 million to buy a publishing catalog that included 250 Beatles songs.
Without broadband, the deal would have been only the union of two media companies, like a movie studio buying a publishing company.
Last year, WPP bought a custom publishing company, Spafax, and its agencies, like Ogilvy and Thompson, have hired the Forbes custom publishing division, Forbes Custom Communications Partners, to produce magazines for clients like I.B.M. and Northwestern Mutual Life.
In 2008, Farah bought a book publishing firm, World Ahead Media, which took the name WND Books.
In 1951, for $3,000, he bought a tiny publishing house called Grove Press.
You knew what you were getting if you bought The Weekly News of the World, and you knew what you were getting if you bought a book published by Harper and Row.
Duncan Edwards, NatMags' deputy managing director, said: "We've bought a very succesful publishing group with high volume products.
In 1963, I bought a book first published in 1955, "The Eastern Schism," by Steven Runciman.
