Gannett Buys Full Stake in ShopLocal
Gannett Co. has acquired full ownership of retail marketing and database services provider ShopLocal LLC, the Chicago Tribune.
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Gannett Co. has acquired full ownership of retail marketing and database services provider ShopLocal LLC, the Chicago Tribune.
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SearchMe 'stack' Visual search engine SearchMe launched a feature that enables users to cluster their favorite webpages and share them via email, on blogs and on social networks.
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Marcus Brauchli, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal who left under pressure from new management, will become the executive editor of The Washington Post beginning Sept. 8. He succeeds Leonard Downie Jr., who is stepping down after 17 years on the job.
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Despite the growing popularity of viewing television content online, most adults (94 percent) who subscribe to cable or satellite television services prefer to watch television on traditional TV sets, according to new research by The Nielsen Company, writes MarketingCharts.
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Activision shareholders are expected today to approve a merger with Vivendi Games in a deal that will shake up the gaming biz.
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Some 76 percent of Americans over age 50 say the internet is an important source of information for them - up from just 51 percent five years earlier (see chart) - according to findings from AARP and the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, MarketingCharts reports.
A group of state attorneys general have asked FCC commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate to oppose the merger of Sirius and XM Satellite Radio, saying a deal would be a “stacked deck” to consumers.
Golf for Women is folding, Conde Nast has confirmed. The news comes just after Susan Reed, editor of the luxury lifestyle title, was hired away by O, The Oprah Magazine, where she has been named editor.
Back-to-school season is in full swing already, and Kohl’s is the latest retailer to unveil its annual push - a week earlier than its back-to-school launch last year, according to Retail Wire (subscription). The department store chain is pitching clothing “inspired by artists… worn by you” via ads featuring Lenny Kravitz in denim, singing a song from his new album.
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Pro Publica, the non-profit newspaper venture that plans to sell long-form investigative pieces to magazines and newspapers, has been poaching top talent from newspapers across the country. In its latest move, it has nabbed investigative reporters Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, who won a Pulitzer in 2005, from the Los Angeles Times.
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New data from Nielsen indicates that American consumers are continuing to increase the amount of time spent in front of television sets, computer screens and the teeny screens of mobile devices.
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