Data Explorers, an analytics and analysis firm which helps subscribers track short-selling in stocks, is the latest acquisition of financial… Read more »
UBM CEO David Levin tells paidContent the business publisher is done with off-loading content businesses for now and is about to see online… Read more »
Two business information publishers are reporting improving fortunes after pushing their print media portfolio toward digital subscription o… Read more »
Academics are staging a mini-revolt against science and medical journal publisher Elsevier’s terms, and analysts fear the movement could hit… Read more »
Polar Mobile — the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustr… Read more »
PaidContent has learned that Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB), the business information company, has put AllBusiness.com, the information and ne… Read more »
Vivek Shah continues to methodically build up his version of Ziff Davis as a tech vertical. No details on the price but Ziff Davis has acqui… Read more »
Let’s find out! Research firm IDC released its Q3 2011 report on media tablet shipments today. You’ll recall that the Kindle Fire and Nook T… Read more »
The blog ad network NetShelter, which counts with hundreds of technology blogs and some 4,800 bloggers among the sites for which it sells ad… Read more »
Bernstein Research has cut its growth forecasts for professional publishing companies, saying that the sector will suffer the same post-rece… Read more »
After two months of rumors of “he’s out/he’s here to stay,” Michael Wolff is out at Adweek, a little more than a year since he was hired to… Read more »
Prometheus Global Media, the publisher of Adweek, Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter has struck a strategic alliance with a group of inves… Read more »
Less than a year since Michael Wolff took over as editorial director of Adweek, tension is rising over the course of the revamped magazine a… Read more »
More developments on the theme of printed newspapers going digital first. The Guardian has announced that the MediaGuardian, plus two other… Read more »
Over the past year, Ziff Davis has transformed itself from being a digital-only tech publisher primarily known for running PCMag.com to a br… Read more »
Richard Beckman, the publishing vet who was tapped early on by the group of investors that paid an estimated $80 million to buy Nielsen’s b2… Read more »
Magazines aren’t just about editorial anymore. Case in point, the parent of Hollywood-focused trade mag Variety has acquired TVtracker, an… Read more »
Primedia (NYSE: PRM), the big print and online real estate listings company, has been sold to PE firm TPG Capital for $525 million, includin… Read more »
When the new issue of Adweek is laid out with the other trade magazines in the reception areas of advertising agencies, TV networks and medi… Read more »
» NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) visits are off as much as 15 percent a day since the debut of its paywall. (paidContent)
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B2B publisher Centaur is still in the acquisitions game, adding another specialist professional community to its line-up. Read more »
Prometheus Global Media CEO Richard Beckman is denying that the company is considering selling the b2b publications it bought from Nielsen o… Read more »
What do you do when the world turns upside-down? Find a flat surface and face in a different direction.
David Levin, CEO of the specialist… Read more »
The Lawyer and NMA publisher Centaur says paid content revenue, a new category comprising its circulation revenue and online subscriptions,… Read more »
Variety and Farmers Weekly publisher Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) says its Reed Business Information earned 19 percent less money through 2010,… Read more »
Dex One, which announced it would be shutting down its Business.com operations last fall, is now selling the brand name and related assets o… Read more »
Emap CEO David Gilbertson describes his mantra for business-to-business publishers, in the Financial Times…
“The way I’d describe [the sh… Read more »
Data Explorers is a financial data aggregator which tracks stock loan information to provide insight on short selling and long-side ownershi… Read more »
This is a great idea…
Haymarket Media Group is launching a new web title, Windpower Intelligence, that’s powered by outside niche content… Read more »
Ewan MacLeod’s Mobile Industry Review is amongst the trade’s better respected sources for insider mobile news and analysis.
But when founde… Read more »
German media conglomerate Axel Springer is selling off its 75 percent stakes in business news site WallStreet:Online and stock broker WallSt… Read more »
Bloomberg’s new-look “Bloomberg Businessweek” tasked WPP’s JWT with its global relaunch campaign. The knock-out idea: reminding folk that it… Read more »
Salesforce.com has bought up Jigsaw, the business directory startup, for $142 million in cash, as well as up to $14.2 million in additional… Read more »
AdAge.com will significantly limit free access to articles on its website later this week, when it institutes a metered paywall. Starting We… Read more »
B2B internet company WebMediaBrands (NSDQ: WEBM) is adding social media news site RotorBlog to its growing stable of online community-focuse… Read more »
Reed Business Information-US continues its string of magazine divestitures with the sale of Home Accents Today, Furniture Today and six sist… Read more »
B2b publisher TechTarget has bought business data site ebizQ.net. Terms weren’t disclose. This is Newton, MA-based TechTarget’s second acqui… Read more »
Last week, David Levin, the CEO of B2B publisher United Business Media (LSE: UBM), said that print now only represents Read more »
Revenues and profits are down for United Business Media (LSE: UBM), but the company says its future outlook is stable as it focusses more on… Read more »
B2B could be approaching calmer waters, and digital may be steering the boat: today Informa, publisher of maritime bible Lloyd’s List, repor… Read more »
