Thomson Reuters Corp. (TRI) could fetch nearly $3 billion for its Intellectual Property & Science business from either a strategic or financial buyer, according to company followers, as the information giant explores options for the division in an effort to hone its focus on financial and legal services
In 1995, Forbes, the business magazine, made a prediction: Elsevier, the largest publisher of scientific journals, would be “the internet’s first victim”
MA Healthcare, part of the Mark Allen Group of companies, has acquired two veterinary journals from Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley has acquired A&M Publishing Ltd., the Guildford, U.K.-based publisher for the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, and GIT Verlag GmbH, a Darmstadt, Germany-based publisher for the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, security and engineering industries. The terms of the transactions, which closed during the week of April 15, were not disclosed.
