Salesforce supremo Benioff buys Time magazine for $190m Salesforce supremo Marc Benioff and his wife are buying the US magazine Time for $190m, according to reports. The deal has nothing to do with Salesforce, the company that billionaire Benioff founded where he still serves as chief exec. Time was owned by the Meredith corporation, which bought Time Inc – the publishing group …
There's always going to be a market for Time magazine while we still have dentists waiting rooms
I like to sneak in my most recent copy of Viz as a gift, hiding it amongst the golfing and caravanning magazines. I'm sure things like this link go down well: Probably NSFW
Its gotta be hard to sell magazines when the delay from the stories being written, to printing the issues, to mailing them to subscribers is so much longer than putting the story directly onto the internet.
It almost sounds like he bought it to keep it around as an American icon. Even if he loses money operating it, he's got billions more where that came from so it won't matter to him.
They don't tend to be as critical or care much about stuff like real world events.
My house has lots of informative mags on cooking and fitness and health and hearth/home - most by companies like Meredith.
Not wanting to say anything negative about the wonderful missus. We just have different tastes. Obvious since I actually read El Rag.
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