REUTERS McGraw-Hill to Sell Education Unit to Apollo for $2.5 Billion | McGraw-Hill agreed on Monday to sell its education division to Apollo Global Management for about $2.5 billion, completing the publisher's transformation into a provider of high-end financial information.
McGraw-Hill agreed on Monday to sell its education division to Apollo Global Management for about $2.5 billion, completing the publisher's transformation into a provider of high-end financial information.
But Thomson, based in Toronto, sold those papers a long time ago and has turned itself into a major purveyor of media of a different sort — specialized, high-end electronic information sold by subscription to lawyers, financial traders, academics and physicians.
On the one hand, high-end technologies combine information decision-making along with analytic perception gained from examining data through sophisticated technologies that reveal insights from combinations of diverse data sources (Marr 2016b).
Other investments — in high-end tourism, high-value agriculture, information technology, and modernized shipping services — are in the works.
They are alternative energy, energy efficiency, environmental protection, biotechnology, advanced information technologies, high-end equipment manufacturing and so-called new energy vehicles, like hybrid and all-electric cars.
Among the areas he singled out were biomedicine, energy conservation, information technology and high-end manufacturing.
"In order to get into this market, you need to have your products tested for performance and to prove that you can support high-end printers," he says, adding that information technology managers are extremely risk averse.
Data represents information collected from selected high-end ZIP codes in Forbes Preferred Places.
Augmented reality was all the rage in 2009, with high-end smartphones developing the ability to overlay information on a view of your surroundings.
