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• Bloomberg Buys Energy News Publisher

  PaidContent - 2009-12-10

  A week after closing its purchase of BusinessWeek, Bloomberg has bought New Energy Finance, a UK-based publisher of news covering the carbon and clean power markets. Terms were not disclosed. Peter Grauer, Bloomberg’s chairman, recently hinted at more acquisitions on the way in its bid to become the world’s...

  Tags: Bloomberg L.P., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Management, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Research & Metrics, Research, David Kaplan

• Bloomberg buys UK energy data group

  Financial Times - 2009-12-09

  Bloomberg, the privately-owned financial data company that had made only one acquisition in 28 years before buying Business Week, has bought New Energy Finance in a bet on the growth of carbon markets and clean energy investment.New Energy Finance, a company founded in London in 2004, employs 130 people...

  Tags: Bloomberg L.P., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Company News, Environment, General News, Financial Times

• Bascobert Leaves Dow Jones To Be President, Bloomberg BusinessWeek

  PaidContent - 2009-12-07

  Paul Bascobert is the new president of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, succeeding Keth Fox, who is staying at McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP). Bloomberg execs have high hopes for Bascobert, who has been the CMO for the Consumer Medis Group at Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) and, the announcement claims, “is credited with helping...

  Tags: President, BusinessWeek, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Paul Bascobert, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Management, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Staci D. Kramer

• Life in Bloomberg Bubble: Grauer: We May Be At Bottom of News Industry Slump

  PaidContent - 2009-12-07

  Talk about optimism: Peter Grauer, Bloomberg’s chairman thinks the news industry may be at the bottom of its slump cycle, he tells FT; reading in between the lines: he still believes it is cyclical, not a secular change in the news media establishment, though the rest of the world...

  Tags: Industry, Bloomberg L.P., News Industry, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Management, Business Operations, Rafat Ali

• Bloomberg eyes more acquisitions

  Financial Times - 2009-12-06

  Bloomberg is planning a further year of aggressive investment and may make more acquisitions as the financial data group seeks to broaden its reach to become the world's "most influential source of news"."The game is ours to lose," Peter Grauer, its chairman, told the Financial Times days after completing...

  Tags: Acquisition, Bloomberg L.P., Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Site Development, Corporate Law, Web Technology, Investment, Finance, Internet, Business Operations, Company News, Financial Times

• Ex-BusinessWeek EIC Adler Joins Thomson Reuters

  PaidContent - 2009-12-02

  Stephen J. Adler, who resigned his post as editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek shortly after the magazine’s sale to Bloomberg, is taking a new role at Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI). Adler will become SVP and editorial director of the news service’s Professional division, which covers Legal, Tax & Accounting, and...

  Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., Taxes, Free Trade, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Personal Finance, Healthcare, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Reuters, David Kaplan

• Reuters Doubles Up On Opinion With Breakingviews Buy, Hires

  PaidContent - 2009-12-02

  It’s hard not to see the symmetry: two deals announced within 24 hours of each other, closed on the same day. McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) claims a pre-tax gain of $9 million from selling 80-year-old BusinessWeek to Bloomberg, while financial commentary start-up Breakingviews sells to Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) for...

  Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Bloomberg L.P., Breakingviews, Branding, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Media & Publishing, Online News, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Reuters, Staci D. Kramer

• It's Bloomberg's BusinessWeek Now

  PaidContent - 2009-12-01

  Yes, it’s a bit over the top to compare buying a magazine with matters of war but getting the word that Bloomberg’s acquisition of BusinessWeek is official today reminded me of an interview I just heard about President Obama and Afghanistan. Until now, he’s been managing the results of...

  Tags: BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Cable, Branding, Network Technology, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Online News, Staci D. Kramer

• BusinessWeek Under Bloomberg: ME of Time.com Appointed Mag's New Editor

  PaidContent - 2009-11-17

  BusinessWeek, now under Bloomberg, has made its first senior appointment, and has gone outside the company for it: Josh Tyrangiel would be appointed Editor of the mag after the deal closes, it said. More to come…Josh Tyrangiel To Be BusinessWeek EditorNEW YORK, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/—Bloomberg L.P. today announced that...

  Tags: BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., Leadership, Mergers & Acquisitions, Team Management, Corporate Law, Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Rafat Ali

• Bloomberg.com May Charge Up To $1,000 A Year For News Feeds

  PaidContent - 2009-11-04

  All aboard the paid content bandwagon: having signaled that its newly acquired Businessweek.com may raise the paywall for certain types of content, Bloomberg is now considering charging Bloomberg.com users up to $1,000 a year to access certain areas of the site from next year.WSJ reports, citing sources, that Bloomberg.com...

  Tags: Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg.com, Portals, Financial Accounting, Web Technology, Internet, Finance, Media & Publishing, Online News, Patrick Smith