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- BREAKING: RBI Sale Canceled; Reed Elsevier Still Wants Rid In Medium-Term
- The verdict is in and the answer is: no sale. Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) has announced that its torturous, nine-month campaign to sell the B2B magazine division is over. Reed announced to the stock market this afternoon that it has "terminated discussions with potential bidders" and that due to...
- External links 2008-12-10
- Londonpaper Closure: Murdoch Has Lost Faith In Free
- Thelondonpaper‘s launch team, led by former Campaign editor Stefano Hatfield, flew to New York in 2006 to convince Rupert Murdoch and his executives that the plan would work: easy-going, care-free news for young professionals to flick through on the Tube back to Hampstead, Clapham and Shepherds Bush. A captive...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Alibaba Removes Classifieds Business From Yahoo China
- Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is facing a setback in its plans to build market share and revenue in Asia: Alibaba Group, which runs Yahoo China and is 39 percent-owned by Yahoo, is separating classified listings business Koubei.com from Yahoo China and adding it to its own retail site Taobao.com, as...
- External links 2009-08-24
- Earnings: WPP Revenue Slides But Digital Target On Track
- In the first half of 2009, advertising group WPP made one quarter of its revenue from its digital activities, showing that advertisers are investing in new online ways to track, measure and expose their brands in the recession. In an unaudited interim report covering the six months to June...
- External links 2009-08-26
- Pirate Bay Buyer Revises Deal At Eleventh Hour, Faces Market Delisting
- With hours to go until its deadline, would-be Pirate Bay buyer Global Gaming Factory X is having to perform a financial contortionist act to convince shareholders and market authorities its acquisition can work.Though it last week said funding for the acquisition had been secured, just hours before presenting the...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Global Gaming's Pirate Bay Deal Approved By Shareholders
- The new Pirate Bay is born: Global Gaming Factory X’s long-running and controversial attempt to buy the infamous and often outlawed Torrent-tracking site has been approved by the company’s shareholders. It’s against all the odds: key investors pulled out of the the SEK60 million (£5.1 million) deal in the...
- External links 2009-08-27
- UK Newspapers Want £1 Million From Aggregators; 5p A Link
- The Newspaper Licensing Agency tells paidContent:UK it wants news monitoring companies and “content-scraping” aggregators to give it “circa 10 percent” of their revenues for the privilege. At the NLA’s estimate, aggregators and PR monitors like Moreover and Newsnow make a combined £10 million in annual revenue, meaning £1 million...
- External links 2009-08-28
- EC Media Commissioner Backs Google Books Plan
- Given all the controversy, legal action and anti-trust scrutiny surrounding Google’s plans to digitise millions of books, the search giant has been given some welcome backing from European Commissioner Viviane Redding. The outspoken French politician and former journalist, responsible for Europe’s digital media policies, said in a Q&A document...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Earnings: Vivendi H1 Up On Games, Digital Music Growth
- Fast growing digital music sales and the ongoing popularity of online multiplayer video games helped Vivendi (EPA: VIV) to a recession-beating 15 percent year-on-year revenue growth in the first half of 2009.—Activision Blizzard: The games division continued to power on - revenues up 300 percent from last year to...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Germany Opposes Google's Books Settlement In US Court Filing
- Germany has declared itself an enemy of Google’s ambitious and controversial plans to digitise millions of out-of-print books, fearing the creation of an unfavourable “new copyright regime”. In a filing to a New York court on Tuesday, Angela Merkel’s administration urged US authorities not to green light Google’s settlement...
- External links 2009-09-02
- FT.com Profiling IP Numbers To Drive Corporate Subs
- FT.com’s subscription sales team is now mining the site’s traffic logs to target companies whose staff visit its free stories most often. Profiling firm Trovus has been hired for the task, hoping to add to FT.com’s 600 corporate subscriptions.Trovus is monitoring the IP address of frequent readers to find...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Fox Launches Pay Euro Soccer Streaming Service
- Fox Sports International has unveiled a premium subscription video service showing every game from the UEFA Champions’ League soccer tournament, the world’s most glamorous and lucrative club competition. The preliminary rounds of the league gets underway Wednesday, and prices range from $9.95 for a single match to $99.95 for...
- External links 2009-08-18
- RBI Timeline: How The Non-Sale Unfolded In Links
- Today's news that Reed Elsevier's proposed auction of B2B division Reed Business Information has failed comes after months of behind-the-scenes negotiating, departures and optimistic predictions from the publisher. The next installment in the tale is likely to be the restructuring of RBI and—eventually—another invitation to anyone that might be...
- External links 2008-12-10
- HIG Capital Acquires VNU Media Stake
- Private investment firm HIG Capital has taken a major stake in Dutch B2B publisher VNU Media, alongside majority shareholder, PE firm 3i. Reuters.com reports that the deal comes as part of a restructuring of VNU, which took on ?200 million (£170 million, $288 million) in debt when 3i bought...
- External links 2009-08-03
- Tweeting Sports Stars Pose A Problem To Teams
- High-profile sports stars enjoy social networking just as much as any young people. But their employers are getting increasingly worried about them spilling too many changing room secrets. Some are beginning to fine players, shut down their Twitter accounts and hoping some stern action will make the problem will...
- External links 2009-08-04
- FT Bosses Launch PR Offensive For Paid-Content Model
- Not content with its position as the only UK newspaper to successfully monetise its online content to at least some of its audience, executives from Financial Times have been busy telling the world that charging for news does work and that it's a big mistake for other newspapers to...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Earnings: Thomson Reuters Profits Boosted By Merger Savings
- Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) is finally reaping some big benefits from its long-running merger: the news and professional information publisher reported underlying profits up 11 percent year on year to $793 million (£465.9 million) and a profit margin 330 basis points higher at 24.2 percent, helped in a big...
- External links 2009-08-06
- FT.com Considering iTunes-Style Micro-Payments Model
- FT.com executives are considering introducing a pay-as-you-read model loosely based on Apple's iTunes to increase its digital revenues further. FT.com MD Rob Grimshaw told paidContent:UK in an interview that the site is "exploring the possibility of pay-per-view" and could introduce some form of micropayment model within 12 months, as...
- External links 2009-08-07
- Terra, Telemundo Stream USA Soccer Match Online
- The USA soccer team kicks off its tricky World Cup qualifier match against Mexico's national side later today (4pm ET/1pm PT), but if you're still at work you could watch the whole thing for free on Futbolestar.tv, from Spanish-language online publisher Terra USA and NBCU-owned Latin American broadcaster Telemundo....
- External links 2009-08-12
- UK's Perform Signs Soccer VOD Deals With CONCACAF, Univision
- British online sports management company Perform has signed a deal with CONCACAF, the North, Central American and Caribbean soccer authority, to provide VOD highlights to its CONCACAF.com site from October, meaning fans will be able to watch the national US team in action.The company already provides video—and online sales...
- External links 2009-08-14
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