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The Los Angeles Daily Journal
Daily Journal Corporation is an American publishing company and technology company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company has offices in Corona, Oakland, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and Santa Ana in California, and in Denver, Colorado ; Logan, Utah ; Phoenix, Arizona and Melbourne, Australia. Governance The Daily Journal Corporation has been publicly traded since 1987 on the NASDAQ under DJCO. Its chairman is Steven Myhill-Jones. Charlie Munger, Charles T. Munger, who is also vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is the former chairman and a current director. Publishing business The original newspaper, ''The Daily Court Journal'' (Los Angeles), began publication in 1888. Charlie Munger, Charles T. Munger purchased the paper in 1977 and through a series of acquisitions and organic growth built it into a group of newspapers and websites that provide information on the legal industry, real estate and general business. The company now p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (listed company), which facilitates the trade of shares, or not (unlisted public company). In some jurisdictions, public companies over a certain size must be listed on an exchange. In most cases, public companies are ''private'' enterprises in the ''private'' sector, and "public" emphasizes their reporting and trading on the public markets. Public companies are formed within the legal systems of particular states, and therefore have associations and formal designations which are distinct and separate in the polity in which they reside. In the United States, for example, a public company is usually a type of corporation (though a corporation need not be a public company), in the United Kingdom it is usually a public limited company (plc), i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
