‘Industry Standard’ Relaunches Online with Prediction Market Feature
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The Industry Standard magazine, which folded in late summer of 2001, is returning, this time as a web-only publication.
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The Industry Standard magazine, which folded in late summer of 2001, is returning, this time as a web-only publication.
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Sun-Times Media Group Inc. is considering a sale of the company and its assets, the company said Monday. It is also looking at other alternatives to increase shareholder value.
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British publication Dare has decided to stop charging $1 for the magazine and will become the first women’s magazine in the country to be given away for free.
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The South Carolina Dept. of Education has inked a deal with contractor SAC to place an 11-inch-wide strip of advertising inside school buses.
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News Corp. president and COO Peter Chernin said Fox will not abandon TV’s upfront process. His comments came during a News Corp. conference call with analysts and reporters, as the company announced its highest quarterly operating profit ever thanks to strong broadcast and cable TV unit results.
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Highfields Capital Management purchased millions of shares of Clear Channel Communications last week, bringing its ownership of the company from 5 percent to 7.7 percent.
Charming Shoppes Inc., the retailer that operates the Lane Bryant and Fashion Bug clothing chains, is hacking jobs and closing stores to reduce costs; it is also planning to trim 30 percent from its spending budget for the year.
Three major magazine wholesalers are slashing the number of copies they distribute in an attempt to increase efficiency and profitability.
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The E-Trade commercial that starred a talking, barfing baby was the most TiVo’d spot of the Super Bowl, according to TiVo.
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Should Microsoft purchase Yahoo, the deal might allow the company to exert “the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the internet” that it did with personal computers, Google has said in a statement.
Pepsi 'nod' Collective Intellect has issued results from its analysis of Super Bowl XLII advertiser blog buzz during and immediately after the game, reports Adrants (via MarketingCharts).
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The distilled-spirits market grew for the eighth straight year, with 2007 sales up 5.6 percent, totaling $18.2 billion, as consumer interest in cocktails and high-end products remained high, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. (DISCUS), reports MarketingCharts.
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