Polar Mobile—the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX), Shanghai Daily, Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) and the WSJ—today announced two steps up in its growth: it has picked up an additional $6 million in funding and has launched…

PaidContent has learned that Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB), the business information company, has put AllBusiness.com, the information and news site for small businesses, under review. D&B bought the website for $55 million back in 2007.

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 acquired Scottsdale-based Toolbox.com and the IT pro networking site’s 2.3 million registered members from the Corporate Executive Board.

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 Tablet were not released until Q4 2011, making the firm’s report today somewhat less juicy but containing some interesting tidbits nonetheless. The company estimates that Android…

The blog ad network NetShelter, which counts with hundreds of technology blogs and some 4,800 bloggers among the sites for which it sells ads, is today launching a new ad unit called InPowered, an RSS-style box that it hopes will resonate with the information-seekers that visit the sites, and create…

Bernstein Research has cut its growth forecasts for professional publishing companies, saying that the sector will suffer the same post-recession “hangover” it did following the great 2001 crash.

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 remake the b2b trade magazine into a more buzzworthy media news and lifestyle title.

Prometheus Global Media, the publisher of Adweek, Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter has struck a strategic alliance with a group of investors led by NYC taxi advertising executive John Amato to run performing arts title Back Stage magazine. In an interview, Jimmy Finkelstein, Prometheus’ chairman, and Amato, who will be…

Less than a year since Michael Wolff took over as editorial director of Adweek, tension is rising over the course of the revamped magazine amid speculation over Wolff’s own future with the company. 

More developments on the theme of printed newspapers going digital first. The Guardian has announced that the MediaGuardian, plus two other weekly supplements on education and society, will cease to be a standalone printed supplements after next week. The sections will be cut down in size and subsequently run in…

Over the past year, Ziff Davis has transformed itself from being a digital-only tech publisher primarily known for running PCMag.com to a broader content/marketing play by adding audience ad targeting and e-commerce. Now, the company is expanding into lead gen for the enterprise IT space with the acquisition of Focus…

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 b2b publications a year and half ago, is seeing his role reduced at the company, now known as Prometheus Global Media. He’ll be moving out of…

Magazines aren’t just about editorial anymore. Case in point, the parent of Hollywood-focused trade mag Variety has acquired TVtracker, an entertainment research and data-tracking provider. The move is part of Variety Group’s effort to become an analytics provider, as Tvtracker comes with a database system covering TV, feature film and…

Primedia (NYSE: PRM), the big print and online real estate listings company, has been sold to PE firm TPG Capital for $525 million, including debt. Primedia’s properties include rental publication Apartment Guide and housing publication New Home Guide, along with their accompanying websites, as well as real estate listings site…

When the new issue of Adweek is laid out with the other trade magazines in the reception areas of advertising agencies, TV networks and media companies this week, even the most casual readers will certainly notice a number of differences in the look and feel—starting with the larger size and…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) visits are off as much as 15 percent a day since the debut of its paywall. (paidContent) »  Former Nielsen b2b mags Adweek, Brandweek and Mediaweek will be combined into one single magazine starting next week. (NYT)…

Prometheus Global Media CEO Richard Beckman is denying that the company is considering selling the b2b publications it bought from Nielsen over a year ago, Cutline reports.

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 publisher of titles like Information Week, EE Times, Music Week and Farmers’ Guardian - talks with paidContent:UK about how United Business Media is re-inventing its…

Variety and Farmers Weekly publisher Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) says its Reed Business Information earned 19 percent less money through 2010, as it off-loaded many magazines to reshape its portfolio.