Bloomberg To Acquire McGraw-Hill's BusinessWeek

Financial news service and data company Bloomberg will buy BusinessWeek, a business magazine owned by McGraw-Hill publishers. The magazine had nearly a million subscriptions and was run by John Byrne. BusinessWeek was an influential business periodical competing against...

BusinessWeek Up For Sale By McGraw-Hill

World-famous magazine BusinessWeek is now up for sale by publisher McGraw Hill after falling yet another paper-based victim to the declining ad revenues sucked by the online news sources. BusinessWeek is reported...

Conde Nast Cuts Jobs, Closes Magazines and Cancels Events in Wake of Financia...

In the wake of troubling financial times, Conde Nast Publications has opted to close down several of its magazines and lay off employees, and cancel large-scale promotional events for the year.  The move...

Tendulkar-Modi cricket’s most powerful men

"Indian cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar and Indian Premier League Commissioner Lalit Modi made it to a list of 25 most powerful global sports figures. Modi at 19th and Tendulkar at 23rd spot, are ahead of Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova and soccer club Inter Milan’s...

Who Rupert Murdoch Had On Speed Dial

One always wonders who the world's media mogul Rupert Murdoch calls in case he wants to have an update. I came across this interesting piece in Business week about all the people who are in his phone list."Many...

Sarah Lacy Blames Lack of Innovation at SXSW for Backlash

Mashable has a great summary of Sarah Lacy's response to the controversy surrounding her SXSW  keynote interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.By all accounts, it was a terrible interview, however Lacy...

Newsweek readership in freefall

More bad news for the traditional news business:"NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Newsweek's new management plans to chop its guaranteed paid circulation by 500,000 copies, dropping its promise to advertisers down to 2.6...

Blogging: A Burstable Bubble?

I was gonna post this on my blog, but I kinda don't feel like it.But seriously, I think that blogging as a zeitgeist will definitely have a shelf-life, but purpose-based blogs and serially-updated watchdog sites will live on: basically, blogs with no reason to live will...

Dear Silicon Valley journalists: You have failed.

"NICK DOUGLAS -- After Valleywag canned me as editor in November, I talked to a half-dozen editors and writers from as many respected newspapers and magazines. Several discussed writing positions that I would have...

Technology Strategies - Security Lags As Shoplifting Soars :: Symblogogy

"Gross-Inflation" is hitting the shoplifting industry by as much as 37% in average dollar loss per theft over this last measurable year. With rings of professional shoplifters, some with ties to funding...

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