News Source: United Press International
| 3 months ago
A California private equity firm headed by billionaire Tom Gores has entered the bidding for The Boston Globe, the newspaper says. The Globe reported Friday that Gores, known as a corporate turn around artist who has changed the fortunes of computer...
News Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
| 3 months ago
The investment firm that recently bought The San Diego Union-Tribune has emerged as a potential buyer of The Boston Globe. The Globe reported yesterday, citing unidentified sources, that Platinum Equity of Beverly Hills has offered $35 million for...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 3 months ago
At age 45, he is one of the world’s richest men, a buyout artist who has produced a Lindsay Lohan slasher film and bought and sold dozens of distressed companies...But recently his investment firm, Platinum Equity, has delved into the beleaguered...
News Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
| 3 months ago
The investment firm that recently bought The San Diego Union-Tribune has emerged as a potential buyer of The Boston Globe. The Globe reported Friday, citing unidentified sources, that Platinum Equity of Beverly Hills has offered $35 million for the...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 3 months ago
The Boston Globe has told its union bosses that the paper will soon begin charging readers to use its Web site, Boston.com. The Boston Herald reported Friday that the paper's publisher P. Steven Ainsley informed the unions of the decision on Thursday.
News Source: Gawker
| 3 months ago
The New York Times Co. would maybe like to sell the tanking Boston Globe , the company revealed yesterday after everybody already knew it for months. More surprisingly, somebody might actually want to buy the paper! NYT Co. executives are trying to...