From Media Business magazine, the always-interesting list of the top players in the B2B publishing industry in its latest November issue. It includes some of the execs we cover here…

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Xinhua Finance, the Chinese online financial media company, has announced Q3 revenue of $40.7 million, a 118 percent increase over last year’s $18.7 million. Over $8 million of revenue growth…

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TheStreet.com is acquiring Bankers Financial Products Corp., the parent company of BankingMyWay and RateWatch, for $25 million in cash and stock. RateWatch is a B2B site targeting banks and credit…

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CMP Technology, one of the biggest tech publishers and part of United Business Media, (LSE: UBM) announced that Steve Weitzner, who had been CEO of the division since October 2005,…

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This is more on the B2B side than we usually cover, but has some interesting history on the consumer side of content personalization: Stratify, the electronic content discovery service company…

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David Levin, CEO of United Business Media, is a featured speaker at our ”Future of Business Media” conference in NYC next week. The London-headquartered company is the owner of CMP,…

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One sure sign that life is winding down for Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) as a standalone public company: an uncharacteristically brief Q3 earnings call with very little q-and-a from analysts.…

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This chart below from a WSJ story is very instructive...serves as a good discussion point for our upcoming FOBM conference as well: One interesting data point there: “Fortune, which has…

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Inc. magazine is launching IncBizNet tonight, a beta social net aimed at CEOs of the fastest growing privately held companies to promote their businesses and connect with other businesses. The…

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Over the past few months, the online ad industry has largely concentrated its attention on consumer-focused ad networks like DoubleClick and 24/7 Real Media,which have tended to be prized by…

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Thomson’s (NYSE: TOC) takeover of Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) will no be undergoing a deeper regulatory look by the European Commission, the companies announced in a joint statement. EC will proceed…

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Media private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson is in the process of purchasing sales and marketing solutions provider Tranzact for $185 million in cash. The acquisition comes a few weeks after…

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Community investing site Wikinvest has raised $2.5 million in an initial round led by DCM.  The company has created a platform where people can share financial information, research companies and…

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Updated below: Shares of Chinese online financial news agency Xinhua Financial Media (NSDQ: XFML) are up today on an announcement that investment group The Yucapia Cos. will take a stake…

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Updated: The official release is out. Vault.com, the NYC-based career info site which has been around for a long time (11 years), is selling a majority stake to media private-equity…

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Steve Case’s investment company Revolution LLC has announced the launch of Revolution Money, a new credit card firm that will use the internet to offer lower interchange fees and PayPal-like…

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Fox Business Network, the new business channel being launched on October 15th (and part of News Corp. (NYSE: NWS)), has unveiled its new logo (see right). The logo sports Fox’s…

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Barchart.com, a provider of subscription-based financial data, has announced the purchase of FuturesBoard.com, an information and community site for futures traders. Barchart.com says the deal is designed to expand its…

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British tabloid The Sun online bingo revenues are proving to be publisher News Group Digital’s biggest cash cow. Revenues from commercial relationships rocketed 280 percent in the last financial year,…

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UK-based business publishing giant Informa (LON:INF) posted 24 percent better profits of £116 million, on 10 percent better revenue of £533 million, for the first half of the year, helped…

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So we have found out through a tip: Interactive Corp (Nsdq: IACI) and Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ), who have been working on a personal finance site JV for some months…

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What a difference a takeover makes. Analysts revised their verdict on Financial Times parent Pearson (NYSE:PSO) today, with the company likely to face tough competition from the combination of both…

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The troubled tech media firm Ziff Davis reported its Q2 numbers today, and the picture still doesn’t look great, despite selling off its enterprise division recently. Revenues totaled $16.5 million…

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The Nielsen Company (fka VNU) reported quarterly revenue growth of 15 percent over the year-ago period (pro forma), hitting $1.17 billion, although growth would have been significantly slower without a…

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Ziff Davis Holdings, which recently sold off a chunk of itself, still doesn’t have enough cash. The company is exploring a debt restructuring (it has about $390 million in debts)…

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