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Aug 14
2008

Cox Plans to Sell Most of its Papers, Valpak

Cox Enterprises has announced that it is putting most of its newspapers on the block, as well as Valpak, its direct mail giant. Newspapers, TV and radio currently now make up just 20 percent of the company’s revenues as it has diversified with cable TV and holdings such as AutoTrader and Manheim auto auctions, and …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Local Search, Mobile, Money, Newspapers, Verticals, Yellow Pages

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Aug 14
2008

Centro Buys ‘Real Cities’ Brand from McClatchy

Real Cities, the national ad network owned by McClatchy, has been sold to fast rising Centro. Or at least, the Real Cities brand has been sold, along with access to Real Cities’ list of 250 national advertisers. The network’s local media affiliates, however, which are mostly newspapers, aren’t included. It isn’t really a big deal …continue reading »

Categories: Newspapers, Sales Channels, Verticals

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Aug 13
2008

Huffington Post Chicago Launches in Beta

The Huffington Post has launched a beta of its first local “Internet newspaper” in Chicago, with promises to produce 10-20 more local efforts in the next couple of years. The Chicago site is a mishmash of local news, mostly from local publications like Chicago Business and The Chicago Sun-Times; national headlines; local blogs’ and prominently …continue reading »

Categories: Newspapers, Sales Channels

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Aug 13
2008

Executive Turntable: Jennewein Joins Curley in Vegas

Online newspaper pioneer Chris Jennewein, who was recently re-orged out of The San Diego Union Tribune, has started a new position as publisher and senior vice president of Greenspun Interactive in Las Vegas. Greenspun dominates Las Vegas as the publisher of The Las Vegas Sun, and owner of a city guide, TV and radio stations …continue reading »

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Aug 12
2008

Freedom Interactive’s Mathieu Leaves for YuMe Video Network

Freedom Interactive President Michael Mathieu is leaving to be CEO of YuMe Networks, which is sort of positioned as the “DoubleClick of Video.” YuMe is a privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, CA and backed to the tune of $16 million by Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, BV Capital and DAG Ventures. Jayant Kadambi, who …continue reading »

Categories: Newspapers, Sales Channels, Video

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Aug 12
2008

Classified Ventures LLC is Valued at $338 million; Down 13%

Classified Ventures LLC, the holding company for Cars.com, Homescape, Apartments.com, RentalHomesPlus, and HomeGain that is jointly owned by McClatchy, A.H. Belo Corp., Gannett Co., Tribune Co. and The Washington Post Co. is now valued at $338 million. The valuation, contained in a 10 K filed by McClatchy Corp., is 13 percent below the $382 million …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Newspapers, Sales Channels, Verticals

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Aug 10
2008

Allmenus.com Moves Up the Value Chain

Online menus are a good thing, and a number of companies, mostly regionally oriented, have tried to aggregate them and sell advertising and delivery services around them. I am a big user of MenuShark in my area. At least two companies have especially ambitious plans. One is MenuPages.com, which was sold last month to New …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Google, HyperLocal, Local Search, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Verticals

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