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  1. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  2. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  3. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  4. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  5. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  6. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  7. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  8. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  9. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  10. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  11. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  12. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  13. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  14. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  15. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  16. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Media and entertainment

16 companies holding 44 books.

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BetfairBetfair built a betting exchange that matches customers against each other and takes a commission rather than setting odds as a bookmaker.1 book
BlockbusterThe video rental chain built by Wayne Huizenga, sold to Viacom and then killed by mail and streaming; one dedicated history, with the endgame told…4 books
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Capital Cities/ABCCapital Cities was a small broadcaster run by Tom Murphy and Dan Burke that bought the much larger ABC network in 1985 with Berkshire's backing and…1 book
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Death Row RecordsDeath Row Records dominated hip-hop sales in the early 1990s under Suge Knight and Dr.1 book
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Dow Jones & CompanyDow Jones published The Wall Street Journal and owned the market indexes and newswires under Bancroft family control until Rupert Murdoch's News…1 book
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Fox NewsFox News launched in 1996 under Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes and became the most-watched US cable news channel and the main profit source within…1 book
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Golden State WarriorsThe Golden State Warriors went from a losing NBA franchise to a championship team after Joe Lacob and Peter Guber bought it in 2010 and rebuilt the…1 book
HBOHBO began selling a monthly subscription for uncut films over cable systems in 1972 and moved to satellite distribution in 1975, which made a…2 books
NetflixDVD-by-mail company turned streaming studio, unusually well documented by its own founders as well as by outside reporters.8 books
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News CorporationRupert Murdoch turned one Adelaide newspaper into a group holding British and American papers, Fox, HarperCollins and Sky, then split it in 2013…7 books
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PixarPixar built the first computer-animated feature studio and released a run of hits from Toy Story onward before Disney bought it in 2006.2 books
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The Buffalo NewsThe Buffalo News is a daily newspaper that Warren Buffett bought in 1977 and ran through a costly circulation war before it became the city's only…1 book
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The New York TimesThe New York Times moved from print advertising to paid digital subscriptions and now earns most of its revenue from readers rather than advertisers.1 book
The Walt Disney CompanyAn IP conglomerate whose succession fights and CEO memoirs have produced one of the richest corporate literatures in media.6 books
Warner Bros. / Time WarnerA studio and conglomerate defined by serial mergers; the AOL deal alone generated several of the best merger post-mortems written.9 books
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WiredWired launched in 1993 as a magazine covering digital culture, expanded into a web business that failed to go public, and sold to Condé Nast in 1998.1 book

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