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The Associated Press Offers Platform To Publishers For Building Mobile Apps
The Associated Press said today it will start helping publishers build mobile apps for a wide variety for platforms, including Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre and Windows Mobile. The white-label solution was developed by Verve Wireless, which built the AP Mobile platform. Release.The offer...
Tags: Mobile, Associated Press, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, Tricia Duryee
External links 2009-11-06
UBM Will Cut Magazines To Expand Multimedia B2B
United Business Media (LSE: UBM) is planning to reduce the number of print titles it publishes as part of plans that will make magazines merely a “complementary” part of an expanded multimedia B2B strategy.In an interim management statement for the year to October, the company says that, in the...
Tags: Revenue, Multimedia, Magazine, UBM, Financial Planning, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Financial Services, Finance, Management, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Online News, Money, Earnings, Companies, Patrick Smith
External links 2009-11-06
Newsweek Taking The Plunge: Cutting Staff; Trying To Be the Opinion Driver A La The Economist
Newsweek, owned by the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) group, is taking the hard but necessary steps of trying to reinvent itself and keep its relevance: it is planning some layoffs, and will be moving towards a slimmer publication with fewer subscribers and more photos and opinion inside its pages,...
Tags: Newsweek, Economist, Construction, Companies, WaPo, Media, Magazines, Rafat Ali, Washington Post Co.
External links 2008-12-11
F+W Media Sells Fantasy Sports Holdings To Fanball
Fantasy sports network Fanball is buying up several of F+ W Publications’ athletics related online and offline properties, which include contest and content sites.  Terms of the deal were not disclosed. F+W, which publishes a range of enthusiast magazine titles and books, is handing over National Fantasy Football Championship...
Tags: Fantasy Sport, Media, Property, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-18
World Of Warcraft Magazine Targeting Gold-Rich, Long-Term Subscribers
Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) is adding orcs, trolls and blood elves to its list of licensed magazine franchises. The Bath, England-based publisher is partnering with Blizzard Entertainment for World Of Warcraft: The Magazine, a quarterly available in English, French, German, and Spanish.Most interestingly, the 148-page title will be available...
Tags: Blizzard Entertainment, World Of Warcraft, Games, Sales Strategy, Personal Technology, Sales, Entertainment, Gaming, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Future Publishing, Vivendi, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-20
Journalism Online Adds Non-Profit Support With IWPR As Launch Partner
Journalism Online hasn’t moved beyond letters of intent on the commercial side but the Steve Brill-Gordon Crovitz-Leo Hindery Jr. enterprise is adding a non-profit service that already has a launch partner: the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting IWPR. The non-profit service announced this morning (these are intentional...
Tags: Affiliate, Publisher, Productivity, Benefits, Human Resources, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-08-20
Reader's Digest Bankruptcy Proceedings Moving Fast: Gets Approval From Lenders
Reader’s Digest is serious about getting out of Ch 11 bankruptcy fast: it has secured approval of about 80 percent of its senior secured debt holders. This means that these lenders will exchange a substantial portion of RD’s $1.6 billion in senior secured debt for equity and will reduce...
Tags: Salary, Bankruptcy, Reader, Litigation, Personal Finance, Benefits, Business Operations, Human Resources, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-08-20
Zelnick Interested in BusinessWeek; Wasserstein's As Employees Fave?
The bidding for McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) owned BusinessWeek is entering final stages, and bids are due by Sep 15, reports BW’s own Jon Fine. A new name in the process is Strauss Zelnick’s ZelnickMedia, which seems to be part of every major media bidding these days. Zelnick is best...
Tags: BusinessWeek, Strauss Zelnick, Games, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-08-20
Expensive Social Net Will Cost BusinessWeek $4.7 Million In 2009: Report
BusinessWeek’s efforts to reinvent itself in the internet age hasn’t come cheap. On the eve of McGraw-Hill’s Sept. 15 bid deadline for the business magazine, The New York Times reports that BW’s social net Business Exchange is on track for nearly $21 million in expenses from its 2007 launch...
Tags: BusinessWeek, Memo, McGraw-Hill Companies, CPM, Internet, Sales Strategy, Sales, Advertising, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Social Media, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-09-14
Conde Nast Digital Starts Feeding Video Content To Boxee
Boxee users will now be able to watch video clips from Wired.com like this one on how to set up a chemistry lab in your house and Style.com, as well as Style.com’s photo slideshows. Conde Nast Digital has become the latest media provider to do a content distribution deal...
Tags: Wired Inc., Video, Streaming Media, Boxee, Conde Nast Digital, Web Site Development, Corporate Communications, Web Technology, Digital Media, Internet, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-08-25
Illinois Real Estate Exec Takes Minor Stake In New Republic
What is it with Illinois real estate magnates and their penchant for investing in money-losing publications? Michael Alter, the president of his family’s commercial real estate business has taken a 12 percent stake in liberal-leaning political mag The New Republic, Chicago Tribune reported via Romenesko. This is not Alter’s...
Tags: Republic Corp., Commercial Real Estate, Magazine, Chicago, Real Estate, Financial Services, Investment, Business Operations, Finance, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-26
Wenner Finally Dumping RealNetworks; Taking Back Conrol of RollingStone.com
Wenner Media, which seems to have finally discovered this thing called the Internet, is finally taking back control of RollingStone.com, from RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), and will relaunch the website early next year. The site has been under RealNetworks’ supervision for the last five years or so, but the deal...
Tags: RealNetworks Rhapsody, RealNetworks Inc., RollingStone.com, Wenner, Business Structures, Branding, Internet, Web Site Development, Finance, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, RealNetworks, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-08-30
Time.com Looks For Cash In Social Net Real Estate
Time.com hopes to leverage the popularity of its Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages with advertisers by crafting co-branded sponsorships. Technology and engineering company Siemens is the first advertiser to try out Time.com’s “Stay Connected” program, which includes placement on the company’s social media outposts on those sites. The only...
Tags: Facebook, Twitter Inc., Social Media, Real Estate, Advertiser, Time.com, Advertising, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Time Warner, Time Inc., David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-31
CBSSports And Sports Illustrated Strike Print, Digital Content Deal
The difficult media landscape is encouraging more content companies to start sharing resources, and today’s big partnership comes from CBSSports.com and Sports Illustrated. The two will mix and distribute each other’s content across their online properties, as well as in Sports Illustrated magazine. The deal also includes CBS Interactive’s...
Tags: Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Magazines, TV, Broadcast, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Time Warner, Time Inc., David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-31
Reader's Digest Bankruptcy Details: Presentation to Public Lenders
Reader’s Digest filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier today, and some more details are coming out via a presentation it gave to its public lenders titled “The Faceplan: Fast Forward” (yes!). The gist of it: details of the bankruptcy exit plan, and the brand/company going forward; it also...
Tags: Bankruptcy, Presentation, Reader, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-08-18
Reader's Digest Files For Ch 11 Bankruptcy For U.S. Arm
This had been brewing for a while: Reader's Digest company has filed for a pre-arranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company was acquired for $1.6 billion by a consortium of investors, led by PE firm Ripplewood, in 2006. It hired law firm Kirkland & Ellis earlier this year to look...
Tags: Lender, Board, Restructuring, Financing, RDA, Corporate Governance, Investment, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Rafat Ali
External links 2009-08-17
Industry Moves: WaPo's Graham Joins Facebook's Board
Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) chairman and CEO Don Graham has joined Facebook's board. It might seem odd for a social net like Facebook to tap someone from the decaying newspaper industry, but WaPo has been having more success than others in the online space. While the companies overall profits...
Tags: Board, Business Operations, Companies, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, David Kaplan, Facebook, Industry Moves, Magazines, Media, Social Media, WaPo, Washington Post Co.
External links 2008-12-11
Crain Communications Cuts 50 Editorial Posts
Business-to-business publisher Crain Communications has laid off 50 editorial staffers spread across several of its magazines, sources said. The cuts were made fairly lightly at most of the individual mags, including AdAge, which lost three staffers mostly in production and art; Crains NY Business down one copy editor; and...
Tags: Crain Communications Inc., Web Site Development, Financial Accounting, Web Technology, Internet, Finance, Media, Magazines, David Kaplan
External links 2008-12-12
Condé Nast Shutters Blog Net Tied To Beauty Mags
Last week, Condé Nast said it was suspending new website launches due to economy's tailspin. Now, it is closing a blog network tied to Glamour, Allure and Self, Mediaweek reported. The blogs being disbanded include skin care adviser Product Fiend, weight loss site Elastic Waist; and sex-focused Daily Bedpost....
Tags: Companies, Conde Nast, Media, Magazines, Social Media, David Kaplan
External links 2008-12-12
ESPN Web Overhaul About Done; 'Less Is More' Design Aimed At Advertisers
ESPN.com's year-long revamp is finally ready today and set for its formal debut on January. Aside from emphasizing video and smarter search, as execs have said over the past few months in previews, execs at the Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) sports unit tells the NYT that the site's over-arching...
Tags: ESPN, Web, Advertiser, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Advertising, Broadband, Companies, Disney, Entertainment, Sports, Media, Magazines, TV, Cable & Telecom, David Kaplan, The Walt Disney Co.
External links 2008-12-16
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