Red Ventures, a platform of digital businesses, has acquired global travel media company and guidebook brand Lonely Planet from NC2 Media for an undisclosed amount. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-02 03:06:06 UTC ]
Amazon may be forced to pay a new tax proposed by the European Commission on EU operations of digital businesses. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Warning that new regulations will give Google, Apple and Facebook too much control of advertising and personal dataAn alliance of news publishers has called on European regulators to rethink proposed changes to online privacy laws, arguing that they will potentially kill their digital businesses... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The newly-named group of businesses is comprised of Abrams gift and stationery line, and the publisher's ebook and digital businesses. Jess Brailer will oversee the unit as v-p and publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Axel Springer has agreed to buy market researcher eMarketer at an enterprise value of about $250 million as the German publisher continues its push into digital businesses and English-speaking markets.The German media group is paying $242 million for 93% of the shares in eMarketer, taking the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Meredith Corp. is close to walking away from its attempt to merge with Media General, allowing Nexstar Broadcasting Group to acquire the TV station owner after months of negotiation, according to people familiar with the matter.Meredith, the owner of broadcast stations and magazines like Better... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
At least 85 New York Times employees applied for voluntary buyouts by yesterday's deadline, falling short of the number the newspaper publisher said was needed to avoid firings, according to a union representative.Grant Glickson, the chairman of the New York Times unit of the Newspaper Guild of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Media giant to create two companies, one of which will focus on broadcasting and digital content and the other on publishingGannett, the publisher of USA Today, is to take full ownership of the auto website Cars.com and spin off its publishing assets into a publicly traded company as it focuses... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wenner Media has named a new chief digital officer, David Kang, who becomes the third person to hold the position in less than a year. Wenner hired its first chief digital officer, Steven Schwartz, in 2009. He left in May for his old employer, Reuters. The next person in the job, Michael... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]