{"id":18793,"date":"2011-05-06T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=18793"},"modified":"2011-05-06T08:35:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T12:35:39","slug":"bertelsmann-acquires-digital-media-agency-smashing-ideas-for-random-house-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/05\/06\/bertelsmann-acquires-digital-media-agency-smashing-ideas-for-random-house-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertelsmann acquires digital media agency Smashing Ideas for Random House, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smashingideas.com\/about\/news\/#\/news-bertelsman-random-house\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bertelsmann acquires digital media agency Smashing Ideas for Random House, Inc. <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from Smashing Ideas <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>(emphasis DSC)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(New York, May 4, 2011)<\/strong>\u2014Bertelsmann AG  has acquired cutting-edge digital media agency Smashing Ideas, Inc. for  its Random House, Inc. division, the world\u2019s largest English-language  trade book publisher. The purchase was announced today by Markus Dohle,  Chairman and CEO of Random House and Member of the Executive Board of Bertelsmann AG, and Stephen Jackson, President and CEO of Smashing Ideas, Inc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The acquisition adds significantly to the set of Random House  capabilities and further <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>signals the intention of Random House and its  parent company to be leaders in digital content creation, and  demonstrates their commitment to expanding revenues from mobile and  interactive online products and services.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/smashingideas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18797\" title=\"SmashingIdeas\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SmashingIdeas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SmashingIdeas.jpg 544w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SmashingIdeas-150x82.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bertelsmann acquires digital media agency Smashing Ideas for Random House, Inc. &#8212; from Smashing Ideas (emphasis DSC) (New York, May 4, 2011)\u2014Bertelsmann AG has acquired cutting-edge digital media agency Smashing Ideas, Inc. for its Random House, Inc. division, the world\u2019s largest English-language trade book publisher. The purchase was announced today by Markus Dohle, Chairman and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,8,286,18,275,9,276,14,140,206],"tags":[570,710,578,704,571,705,575,640,690,676],"class_list":["post-18793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-digital-audio","category-digital-learning","category-digital-storytelling","category-digital-textbooks","category-digital-video","category-interactivity","category-mobile-learning","category-publishing","category-trends","tag-digital-audio","tag-digital-learning","tag-digital-storytelling","tag-digital-textbooks","tag-digital-video","tag-interactivity","tag-mobile-learning","tag-publishing","tag-transmedia","tag-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18793"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18800,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793\/revisions\/18800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}