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Time Inc. Magazines Make It to the Kindle Fire, After All

Peter Kafka in Media on November 15, 2011 at 5:43 pm PT

It took some haggling, but Time Warner’s publishing unit joins Hearst, Condé Nast and other big publishers on Amazon’s new tablet.

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Mobile App Talent Pool Is Shallow

Joe Light, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 15, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

This year, magazine publisher Hearst Corp. intends to add five software engineers to its mobile development staff. Social-networking company Ning Inc. plans to nearly double its mobile development team. And Web start-up Where Inc. is on track to double its mobile staff this year after quadrupling it in 2010.

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Hearst Bids for Lagardère Magazines

Russell Adams and Max Colchester, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 31, 2011 at 8:10 am PT

Hearst Corp. has agreed with Lagardère SCA to pay nearly $900 million for the French media conglomerate’s international magazine portfolio, betting that a bigger share of magazine readers is the antidote to an uncertain advertising forecast for print publications.

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AOL Buys Digital Ad Company

Emily Steel, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 16, 2010 at 11:07 am PT

AOL Inc. acquired digital advertising company Pictela Inc. on Thursday to bolster its efforts to attract more ad dollars from big brands by selling larger, glitzier ad formats. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but a person familiar with the matter said it was valued at between $20 million and $30 million.

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Elevation Partners Keeps Internet Hits Coming With Pandora

Daniel Hausmann, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 26, 2010 at 3:14 pm PT

Private equity firm Elevation Partners is continuing to invest in big-name venture-backed Internet businesses, this time putting a deal together for online radio service Pandora Media. The technology and media investor – which counts U2 front man Bono as a managing director – signed a letter of intent to buy a stake in a secondary sale from existing shareholders, a person familiar with the deal confirmed. TechCrunch reported the deal earlier.

BoomTown Checks In at the Online-Only Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Kara Swisher in News on August 9, 2010 at 11:05 am PT

A little more than a week ago, while I was in the Pacific Northwest, I decided to pay a visit on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Or, as its brand is known now: seattlepi.com. That would be the pixel-only version of the newspaper that was founded in 1863 as that city’s first, publishing a print version until March of 2009. It was then that the presses stopped and the computing began at the unit, owned by Hearst Corp. Click in to see how it’s going so far.

Demand's Rosenblatt in IPO and M&A Spotlight

Kara Swisher in News on April 20, 2010 at 7:30 am PT

This seems to have been a busy week for Demand Media CEO and founder Richard Rosenblatt, with news of a big-banker hiring in a pending IPO of his social media start-up and the possible sale of a digital marketing company where he serves as chairman. What’s next from the energetic digital exec is anybody’s guess.

Demand’s Rosenblatt in IPO and M&A Spotlight

Kara Swisher in D8 on April 20, 2010 at 7:30 am PT

This seems to have been a busy week for Demand Media CEO and founder Richard Rosenblatt, with news of a big-banker hiring in a pending IPO of his social media start-up and the possible sale of a digital marketing company where he serves as chairman. What’s next from the energetic digital exec is anybody’s guess.

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Hearst Nears iCrossing Pact

Emily Steel and Suzanne Vranica, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 19, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

Newspaper-and-magazine publisher Hearst Corp. is near a deal to acquire digital-marketing firm iCrossing, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest sign of how publishers are going head to head with Madison Avenue to grab some of the growing revenues from online advertising.

Weekend Update, 2.28.09

Beth Callaghan in News on February 28, 2009 at 10:50 pm PT

Much ado about the Amazon Kindle 2.0 this week: After its official unveiling on Feb. 9, the e-book reader started shipping on Monday, and actually managed to grab much–but not all–of the hype that’s surrounded Twitter of late. The device has been met with much acclaim, though it’s by no means unanimous.