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February 2012

LinkedIn Launches Localised Hiring Solutions for Indian MarketProfessional networking site LinkedIn unveiled localised hiring solutions for the Indian market, a move aimed at helping recruiters tap the vast talent pool in the country. - February 8, 2012

COMP

Yahoo! Releases Chairman's Update for ShareholdersYahoo! Inc. the digital media company, released a shareholder update from its Chairman Roy Bostock. - February 7, 2012

SAS

Misys and Temenos agree key merger termsMisys and Temenos have reached agreement on the key terms of a proposed £2bn merger that would create the world’s largest supplier of risk-management computer software to banks. - February 7, 2012

CST

Rentrak Reports Fiscal 2012 Third Quarter Financial ResultsRentrak Corporation announced financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2011. Consolidated revenues were $22.2 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2012, compared with $23.7 million for last year's third quarter, reflecting a 21 percent decline in the company's Home Entertainment business, partially offset by a 20 percent increase in the company's Advanced Media and Information business. - February 7, 2012

MRRS

Groupon Buys Shopper Data Firm AdkuUS daily deals site Groupon has acquired San Francisco-based personalized shopper data specialist Adku. - February 7, 2012

T & C

StrategyOne Hires Comms Measurement LeaderUS research and measurement consultancy StrategyOne, part of the Edelman PR network, has appointed Pauline Draper-Watts as Executive Vice President in charge of its Communications Measurement and Analytics group. - February 7, 2012

MRRS

BuzzBack Expands to Nordic Region with Key HireWeb-based consumer researcher BuzzBack has expanded into the Nordic region with the appointment of TNS Gallup veteran Marie Hayling, who will based in Gothenburg, Sweden. - February 7, 2012

MRRS

Technomic Launches Booze Data PortalFood and drink researcher Technomic has developed a new online platform called the Adult Beverage Resource Group, to track US sales of spirits, wine and beer, and provide consumer attitude and usage metrics. Eric Schmidt and Donna Hood Crecca join to help lead the new initiative. - February 7, 2012

MRRS

Informa Group acquires FERTECONInforma Plc has acquired FERTECON Limited, a provider of market information and analysis on fertilizers and fertilizer raw materials. Both the companies are based in the UK. - February 7, 2012

STM

EBSCO Publishing Releases MEDLINE CompleteEBSCO Publishing continues to expand access to leading content for biomedical research with the release of MEDLINE Complete. MEDLINE Complete is the largest full-text companion to the MEDLINE index ever assembled and provides full text for more than 1,850 journals. - February 7, 2012

SAS

McClatchy ad rev decline slows, shares jumpNewspaper publisher McClatchy Co's quarterly results handily beat expectations, as the pace of decline in advertising revenue reduced sharply and expenses fell about 8 percent. - February 7, 2012

NEWS

Oprah Magazine Takes a Big HitSince Oprah’s namesake show went off the air last September, her magazine’s newsstand sales have also dropped from sight. - February 7, 2012

T & C

Amazon.com Cuts Prices For Data Storage It Rents To BusinessesAmazon.com Inc. lowered rates on computer storage it rents over the Internet, as the company applies its strategy of aggressive pricing to cloud computing. - February 7, 2012

T & C

Taylor & Francis Journals takes another step towards sustainabilityAs part of their CR program, T & F journals have now started using bio-degradable wrapping to send their journals out to subscribers in. They are using “Oxo degradable LDPE Deg 555” polywrap as opposed to the “Standard LDPE” polywrap. - February 7, 2012

STM

Belo's quarterly profit falls on lower ad revenueBelo Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings fell 24% as the television-station company's revenue was hurt by fewer political ads than a year earlier. - February 7, 2012

NEWS

Wiley to Provide Digital Custom Publishing Services to CFA InstituteJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced a new publishing venture with the CFA Institute, a global, not for profit organization that is the world's largest association of investment professionals with over 100,000 members and 135 local member societies around the world. - February 7, 2012

B2B

Two new appointments at DGMTDaily Mail and General Trust plc has made two new appointments,and. Duffy will join DMGT at the end of the month as group HR director. Duffy began his career with industrial UK blue chip companies GEC and BAE Systems and he held the role of executive vice president HR, at BG Group for eight years. - February 7, 2012

NEWS

Yankee Group Sells 4G World to UBMYankee Group announced the sale of the 4G World trade show and exposition business to UBM plc, a global media company. - February 7, 2012

B2B

Emerald Group Publishing set to launch 8 new titles in 2012Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced eight new journals, scheduled for launch in 2012. These additional journals will publish high-quality research from emerging and fast-growing fields of study, including such areas as organizational ethnographies, entrepreneurship and sustainability. - February 7, 2012

STM

K12 Inc. Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2012 ResultsK12 Inc., announced its results for the second fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2011. Revenues for second quarter FY 2012 grew to $166.5 million, an increase of $37.5 million or 29.1 percent over the prior year, due to organic revenue growth in our core business of providing curriculum, technology and management services to K-12 schools and to acquisitions completed in the past year. - February 7, 2012

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