Sony Online Entertainment Cuts 5 Percent Of Workforce
Sony’s online games unit has laid off 41 employees, or five percent of its workforce, we have confirmed with the company. A Sony (NYSE: SNE)… Read more »
Warner Bros. Ends Up Paying $49 Million For Midway Games; 135 Jobs Cut
Updated: Warner Bros. is paying substantially more than previously reported to purchase the assets of Midway Games, the bankrupt game compan… Read more »
McGraw-Hill Slashes 550 Jobs; Media & Info Group Cuts 125 Posts — BusinessWeek Not Affected
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Having already admitted it’s considering selling BusinessWeek, McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) is turning to more immediate cost-cutting in the form… Read more »
Next New Networks Restructures, Cuts Staff
Online video production studio Next New Networks, which was struggling even before the global financial meltdown, has laid off about 7 staff… Read more »
What The Future Will Look Like For Journalists
Jim Spanfeller is president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritus of the In… Read more »
TV Gamer NetPlay Going To City For Funding
AIM-listed TV-and-web gaming vendor NetPlayTV is aiming to raise £12.8 million, to strengthen its balance sheet and finance further growth,… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: ITN/Mail, Radiohead Manager, Merlin On Spotify, Sofia’s Diary
– ITN/Mail: Yet another online video contract for ITN’s prolific On multimedia division – it’s supplying showbiz, lifestyle, general and bu… Read more »
Monster Worldwide Laying Off 160; Hiring 80 More
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Online jobs services company Monster Worldwide (NSDQ: MNST) is cutting 160 positions and adding another 80, saying that it needs employees w… Read more »
Technorati Seeks Some Twitter Juice, Launching Twittorati
Apparently, Technorati is still going. The seven-year-old blog index site once threatened to be to the web’s nascent conversational search p… Read more »
Downturn in Consumption Hits Consumer Reports; Mulling Layoffs
If consumers aren’t buying, then they aren’t buying Consumer Reports either. At least not as much as previous years. And so, even though the… Read more »
Mayor Bloomberg Unveils Program To ‘Stimulate’ NYC Media Jobs — Only $1.5M Spread Over Five Years
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NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg hopes to create 8,000 jobs from a year-long project designed to prop up the city’s struggling media industry. Th… Read more »
Mobile Social Backup Service Mobyko Selling To IMI Mobile
Hyderabad, India-based mobile content distributor IMI Mobile is buying Mobytec, the operator of mobile backup and content sharing service Mo… Read more »
RBI Selling Travel Publishing Group To Hire Car Co. Founder
After failing to be sold itself, Reed Business Information is now selling TWgroup, its travel publishing unit including Travel Weekly, Gazet… Read more »
Sky Planning Digital Sales Cutbacks, Flirting With Spotify For Cricket
Sky’s PC and mobile ad sales house, Sky Digital Media, is planning to cut five percent of its 50-strong workforce after recent advertising d… Read more »
Slide Lays Off Sales Staff To ‘Refocus’ On Bigger Ad Deals
It was almost inevitable. This time last year widget-maker (because that’s what they were called, then) Slide was sitting on $50 million wor… Read more »
Interview: Mike Volpi: Broadcasters’ Own VOD Plans Killed Joost
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Joost was squeezed out of the market by broadcasters picking their own VOD channels instead of aggregators, acknowledges Mike Volpi, who res… Read more »
Netimperative Digital News Site Closing After Ad Cash Dries Up
After surviving mostly on syndication and press release redistribution for the last couple of years, digital news site Netimperative is clos… Read more »
Layoffs and Reorg at IAC-Owned Evite
Evite, the invitation service owned by IAC (NSDQ: IACI), is doing a reorg and laid off 9 employees out of 38 total, we have learned and conf… Read more »
Gannett Says It Will Lay Off 1,400; Digital Properties Largely Spared
A day after saying that job cuts were imminent, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) said it would begin laying off 1,400 employees — 3 percent of its workf… Read more »
paidContent Quick Hits: 7.01.09
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» Kindle pricing is getting a run for it money from eReader. [NY Times]
» College Humor has a new video out about Bin… Read more »
Gannett Layoffs May Come In Next Few Days; More Than 1000
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Updated: WSJ reports that the cuts would be above 1,000, though an exact number isn’t clear. These will come from the U.S. Community Publish… Read more »
Orange UK To Slash 370 Jobs
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Yahoo HotJobs Introduces A New Pay Model
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In the midst of a weak economy that has cut into the market for job listings, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) HotJobs is turning to a variation of the pa… Read more »
Google Social Evangelist Marks Leaves
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Kevin Marks, who was behind many of Google’s social initiatives, has left the company — the latest in a long list of well-known employees t… Read more »
Microsoft Hires Its Sixth Yahoo Exec (In Just Over Six Months)
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The steady flow of executives leaving Sunnyvale for Redmond may have started up once again. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said Monday that it had h… Read more »
Interview: Chris Wade, CEO, Shozu: VCs Won’t Pay For Free Apps Forever
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Charging for apps may just be the wave of the future, according to Chris Wade, the brand new CEO of Shozu, whose application allows users to… Read more »
Print Round-Up: Trinity Mirror Cuts; Newsquest Printers; VNU Media Write-Down; 20 Minutos
– Trinity Mirror: The publisher has announced that five newspaper offices and 11 jobs at its weekly Scottish newspaper division are under t… Read more »
Updated: Guardian Cuts 82 Commercial Jobs
The job losses are now coming from multiple parts of Guardian Media Group units. Just a few weeks after saying it would cut 50 of its 850 ed… Read more »
Print Round-Up: Telegraph Gets Demotix Widget; Economist Shuts Mag; Centaur Closure
– Telegraph Demotix deal: Telegraph Media Group has signed up citizen journalism aggregator Demotix to provide news and pictures for the w… Read more »
Print Round-Up: The Face; thelondonpaper; Express Jobs; Pearson Spain
– The Face: The style title that rose to become the fashion addict’s mag of choice in the 80s and 90s could be resurrected by Bauer Media f… Read more »
How Scouting For Pro Baseball Players Is Like Scouting For Top Business Execs
Brian Grey is an executive in residence at Polaris Ventures. Prior to Polaris, he was an SVP/GM of Fox Sports Interactive, which included ov… Read more »
Nokia Cuts Another 490 Jobs
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is planning to cull a further 490 jobs as part of its previously announced global cost cutting measures. The Finnish cell… Read more »
Earnings: BT Vision, Broadband Steady; First Ever Loss Brings Job Cuts
While the global services division of Ian Livingston’s BT (NYSE: BT) implodes, the telco’s UK retail operations are holding their own. In th… Read more »
Industry Moves: New Bauer Director; Publicis Groupe; WPP’s Kinetic Cuts
– Bauer Media: Paul Wright has been appointed director of digital media at magazine group Bauer Media, 10 months after leaving his executiv… Read more »
Economy Has Swallowed 6,300 Gaming Jobs Since Mid-2008
The gaming industry has shed 6,300 jobs in North America, or about 12 percent of the sector, since June 2008 according to Gamasutra. The sta… Read more »
Print Round-Up: thelondonpaper Losses; Guardian Cuts; Northcliffe Hyperlocal; Standard.co.uk
– thelondonpaper: News International’s free evening title thelondonpaper cut its losses during its second year of publishing from £12.96 m… Read more »
News Bytes: BBC News Cuts; Telegraph Paid Search Deal; Express Digital Editions
– BBC News cuts: More retrenchment at the BBC, which is cutting almost 90 News staff jobs by April next year in a bid to save £155 million… Read more »
Microsoft Laying Off Five Percent Of UK Staff In Global Cutbacks
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) on Tuesday began making “about five percent” of its UK workforce redundant, after earlier axing staff January. It’s b… Read more »
Ojas Invests in Online Campus Recruitment Website
Early stage venture capital firm Ojas Venture Partners has invested an undisclosed amount in Delhi-based CoCubes, a mangement consulting fir… Read more »
Swiss Freesheet .Ch Shutters After Investors Pull Plug
Swiss commuter freesheet .Ch – a newspaper so modern, it’s named after a country code top-level domain – has pulled the plug with the loss o… Read more »
