In the past, Actu, owned by CIPA Ouest-France, had 400 journalists producing some 80 weekly print titles, mostly in Brittany and Normandy in northwestern France. These print titles each had their own websites. They later shifted to a single platform for digital content, which offered national reach. “From that, we decided to pivot to a…
Black Friday deals usually make me think of a big ol’ crowd of people trampling over one another for a TV in a Walmart parking lot. But turns out there’s a lot of deals for front-end too, specifically learning opportunities from course publishers. Thought I’d share those because (1) learning is still straight-up essential for…
If you are thinking about the next steps for your small US tech business, bringing it overseas may be a tempting but equally daunting prospect for expansion. Joining the UK market can bring many desirable opportunities if you are hoping to help your business take the next step, as the UK’s tech sector has been…
Fans of the CBS hit drama “Tracker” will have to wait another week to see Colter Shaw’s next investigation. The series is taking a brief hiatus and will not air a new episode on Sunday, November 8, 2026. Instead, the network has shifted its Sunday night schedule to accommodate a special television event. The sixth…
By Maria Lisicka “Exclusive and verified information has value, and people are okay to pay for it.” This principle has shaped Mediapart since 2008, the company’s CEO, Cécile Sourd, told participants of WAN-IFRA’s Asian Media Leaders Summit. For Mediapart, independence has become not just an editorial value, but a legal and financial structure. In 2008,…
As Microsoft services recover, a multi-day cloud outage is triggering complex business-disruption claims. Corporate treasuries are just beginning to calculate losses from the multi-day outage and performance degradation of many core Microsoft services that began on Nov. 12, as the tech giant continues restoring Copilot, Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Teams connectivity. “We’re seeing encouraging recovery…
More than a decade after its original theatrical release, James Mangold’s The Wolverine (2013) has found a significant new audience on streaming. The film, which stars Hugh Jackman in his second solo outing as the title character, officially joined the Max streaming library on November 1, 2026. Within days, it surged into the platform’s most-watched…
Whop has closed a $200 million Series D at a $5.1 billion valuation, with Sequoia Capital and Shopify Ventures leading the round. The company, which is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, announced the raise on 21 October. The valuation compares with $1.6 billion in February, when Tether, the stablecoin issuer, put $200 million into the…
By Chris Sutcliffe That approach accelerated in 2020 with the launch of a standalone Independent TV section, and a monetisation-first approach to commissioning video content. At the time, Christian Broughton, then managing director and now CEO of The Independent, said the ambition was to offer a “full-on TV experience,” with the video content sitting across…
With global trade fracturing amid tariffs and risk, corporations are rethinking supply-chain costs. This article appears in the November issue of Global Finance Magazine. When a Citi analyst pressed SIG Group CFO Ann-Kristin Erkens on the company’s first-half call in July about whether its €80 million inventory build would become permanent, he was asking a…