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March 2010
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Now It Is the Book Industry’s Turn To Stay Afloat Amid Digital DisruptonO’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference highlighted many factors which will affect the impending change that is imminent for the book publishing ecosystem as e-books and related devices and platforms begin to solidify share.
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SAS
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2009 Revenues Down 24% at Information Services GroupInformation Services Group (ISG) has announced results for 2009, showing an improved fourth quarter rounding off a tough year. Full year figures reported revenues were $132.7m, down 24% from $174.8m in 2008. In the Americas the fall year-on-year was 20%, while revenues from international operations decreased 22% on a constant currency basis and 29% including the impact of currency translation.
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MRRS
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Google Working On Android-Based Set-Top BoxGoogle has teamed up with Dish Network to offer a set-top box based on the Android operating system, the Wall Street Journal reports. The box is said to be operated via a keyboard and will serve YouTube videos straight to a TV set.
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SAS
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CliffsNotes-To-Go App Series Grows to 36 Titles in the App StoreModality, Inc., and Wiley Publishing, Inc., announced that 31 more CliffsNotes literature study guide applications are available in the Apple App Store. Selected in September 2009 as part of Apple’s App Store “High School Survival Guide,” the CliffsNotes-To-Go series delivers interactive review tools and self-assessment quizzes for success-minded students.
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Freedom Communications' Chapter 11 Re-org Plan ApprovedA federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware has approved the Chapter 11 reorganization plan of Freedom Communications, owner of The Orange County Register in California and other media properties.
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NEWS
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GM Named for AP Digital; Will Oversee AP GatewayThe Associated Press has named Nick Ascheim, a veteran on both the business and content sides of digital media, as general manager of AP Digital with responsibility for its new strategic business unit, AP Gateway.
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NEWS
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Springer and Max Planck Society announce agreementSTM publisher Springer, Germany, and The Max Planck Society have announced an agreement that allows scientists working at the 78 Max Planck Institutes and research facilities across Germany access to content on Springer's electronic platform SpringerLink.
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STM
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Microsoft’s New MSN Home Begins Full Roll-Out—With Customized Headlines, More LocalAfter a month-long delay, Microsoft’s overhaul of the MSN home page is going live to the site’s 100 million users over the next two weeks.
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T & C
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Medical Partnerships Flourish in the Land of Meaningful UseReed Elsevier and Thomson Reuters separately announce healthcare partnerships which extend the usefulness of their products.
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STM
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Karl Florida Named President of FindLawKarl Florida has been named president of FindLaw. The appointment and U.K.-based solicitor referral service Contact Law. Florida succeeds Chris Kibarian, who was promoted to president, Business of Law, for Thomson Reuters, Legal.
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LTR
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Northcliffe relaunches two West Country titlesNorthcliffe Media, the regional newspaper group, is to relaunch two of its West Country titles as part of an overhaul of its operations that could potentially lead to the loss of more than 20 jobs.
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NEWS
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Four decades of IDG magazines available in Google’s magazine archiveIDG Enterprise announced it has joined with Google to digitize its publication archives. With the project, readers can now access issues of CIO, CSO, InfoWorld and Network World dating back to the 1970s.
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SAS
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Reed Business Information to merge two divisionsBusiness publisher Reed Business Information announced it will merge its Mardev data services division and DM2-DecisionMaker list management unit. The new database and marketing analytics unit will be called Mardev-DM2.
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B2B
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United Business Media to relaunch COMDEX as virtual eventCOMDEX lives! United Business Media said last week that it plans to relaunch the famed technology trade show as a virtual event that will take place Nov. 16–17.
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B2B
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Google welcomes chance to export to Iran, CubaA senior Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba.
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SAS
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McGraw-Hill Education Announces ALEKS 360, Combining Powerful Artificial Intelligence and Personalized Learning with InteractiveFor many students, two significant hurdles stand in the way of a college education: money and math. The cost of education continues to rise, and students are experiencing high failure and withdrawal rates in developmental math and college algebra/precalculus courses.
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E & T
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Reed Elsevier Sells German Unit To EPPGAnglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier PLC has sold its German Business Information unit to European Professional Publishing Group, EPPG without disclosing the financial details of the deal.
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B2B
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Thomson Reuters’ latest tax compliance system will help save cost and time The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters is launching an intelligent tax system that will “revolutionise” the collection of data for UK accountants.
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LTR
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CCMP to transition Infogroup to full-service direct agencyCCMP Capital Advisors will continue Infogroup's transition from database company to full-service direct marketing firm.
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B2B
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China to loosen control over booksChina’s largest publishing house intends to transform itself from a propaganda vehicle into a global player as it spearheads Beijing’s plans to restructure the industry while keeping it under state control.
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T & C
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