http://www.outsellinc.com/content_items/index/headlines Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Outsell Information Industry Headlines Feed http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080516/BUSINESS/805160352 CBS Corp. is acquiring a big online reach with its acquisition of CNet Networks Inc. but also a company that's faced heavy criticism from investors. Those concerns as well as the hefty $1.8 billion price tag helped send CBS's shares down after the deal was announced Thursday. Fri May 16 00:32:12 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111395 info@outsellinc.com http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/16/BU7M10N64O.DTL&type=tech Comcast Corp.'s interference with Internet traffic has prompted a federal investigation and is at the center of calls for network neutrality laws, but another U.S. cable company appears to be doing the same thing without drawing scrutiny. Fri May 16 00:13:29 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111399 info@outsellinc.com http://digital50.com/news/items/PR/2008/05/15/AQTH067/coremetrics-appoints-kathi-kaplan-as-worldwide-chief-marketing-officer.html SAN MATEO, Calif., May 15 PRNewswire —, the leading provider of digital marketing optimization solutions, has appointed Kathi Kaplan as Chief Marketing Officer. Kaplan brings more than 20 years of experience in marketing for high-tech companies, including Apple, Borland Software, Business Objects an... Fri May 16 00:02:13 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111397 info@outsellinc.com http://www.euroinvestor.co.uk/News/ShowNewsStory.aspx?StoryId=9840537&BW=20080515006546 Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) and WPPs (NASDAQ:WPPGY) GroupM, 24/7 Real Media and WPP Digital today announced a strategic partnership that will enable WPP agencies to buy digital display advertising across the Internet more efficiently than ever before. The partnership will initially involve a collabora... Thu May 15 22:32:59 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111389 info@outsellinc.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/15/rumor-google-to-launch-hosted-site-search-ditch-mini/ A source has informed us that Google plans to announce the replacement of its Mini Search Appliance with a new enterprise search solution called Hosted Site Search in the next few days. Thu May 15 22:00:58 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111384 info@outsellinc.com http://adwords.blogspot.com/ Are you interested in reaching your target audience through offline advertising, while also driving online searches and boosting ROI? If so, you can get help from experts at the Google Marketer's Playbook talks at upcoming ad:tech digital marketing conferences. Thu May 15 19:42:07 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111366 info@outsellinc.com http://www.ft.com/cms/s/12629990-2026-11dd-80b4-000077b07658.html Sprint Nextel, the struggling third-largest US mobile network operator, lost more than 1m subscribers in the first quarter and forecast only marginal improvements in the current quarter. Thu May 15 19:34:48 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111367 info@outsellinc.com http://www.dialog.com/pressroom/2008/051308_scholarship.shtml Thomson Reuters Seeks Scholarship Applicants From Europe, The Middle East, Asia Pacific & Africa Thu May 15 18:14:21 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111360 info@outsellinc.com http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/Facebook-Google-Friend-Disconnect_1.html Facebook cites violation of its terms of service as grounds for blocking Google's Friend Connect from accessing social network's members' data Thu May 15 14:30:45 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111325 info@outsellinc.com http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_ge.jsp?cat=PRRELEASE&src=105&feed=cmt&section=news&news_id=cmt-136p9749&date=20080515&alias=/alias/money/cm/nw Novell Appoints Rick Crandall Chairman of Its Board of Directors Thu May 15 13:15:16 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111299 info@outsellinc.com http://www.asianage.com/presentation/leftnavigation/news/business/adobe%E2%80%99s-new-flash-player.aspx Adobe is releasing a new version of its popular Flash Player to take on increasing competition. Thu May 15 13:14:55 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111311 info@outsellinc.com http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-iabs-final-07-q4-revenue-tally-is-in-growth-slowed-but-stayed-healthy-s/ Online ad revenues for 2007 came in at $21.2 billion, a 26 percent rise over the $16.8 billion internet advertisers spent in 2006, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Back in February, the IAB projected a total of $21.1 billion for 2007 web ad expenditures. Meanwhile, the organization w... Thu May 15 13:01:34 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111305 info@outsellinc.com http://www.knowledgespeak.com/news.asp Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the appointment of Dr Jose Guilherme Cecatti as co-Editor-in-Chief of Reproductive Health, serving alongside Dr Regina Kulier. Dr Cecatti is Director of Maternity Services at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Campinas, ... Thu May 15 12:04:29 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111263 info@outsellinc.com http://www.knowledgespeak.com/news.asp Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) have announced a new publishing partnership. Under the deal, NPG will publish ACG’s official publication, American Journal of Gastroenterology, starting January 2009. Thu May 15 12:04:28 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111265 info@outsellinc.com http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-15-2008/0004814804&EDATE= RESTON, Va., May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at the top online properties for April 2008 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. April saw Google Sites... Thu May 15 11:48:04 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111271 info@outsellinc.com http://www.freshnews.com/news/other-tech-areas/article_43570.html? Carl Icahn today announced that the following letter was delivered today to Yahoo! With the attached biographies of our ten nominees for the Yahoo! Board. Thu May 15 11:17:42 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111298 info@outsellinc.com http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-ge-healthcare-expanding-alliance-with-biosense-webster-develop-/2008/05/15/3447715.htm SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)-- Building on the same relationship that successfully integrated GE Healthcare's CardioLab(R) IT Recording System and Biosense Webster's Carto(R) Mapping System, GE Healthcare has announced it is expanding its strategic alliance with Biosense Webster, Inc. to develop ... Thu May 15 10:48:38 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111231 info@outsellinc.com http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/AOL-to-open-its-mail-sites-to-third-party-applications_1.html Strategy reflects AOL's recognition that no single company can control all the applications that users will want to use Thu May 15 10:29:51 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111249 info@outsellinc.com http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2008/05/12/daily96.html?surround=lfn Internet advertising revenue rose 26 percent to $21.2 billion and set a record for the fourth straight year, according to the 2007 Internet Advertising Revenue Report published Thursday by The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Thu May 15 10:28:41 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111236 info@outsellinc.com http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/14/financial/f141714D90.DTL After privacy complaints, Google Inc. is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its Internet map program. Rolling it out will take several months, however. Thu May 15 08:30:34 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111169 info@outsellinc.com http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/wndReader.asp?ArticleId=49155 May 15, 2008— In addition to this week's NewsBreak(s), the editors have compiled the Weekly News Digest, featuring stories from the week just past that you should know about. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Thu May 15 07:49:12 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111180 info@outsellinc.com http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/Comcast-to-buy-Plaxo-for-social-networking_1.html Social-networking company Plaxo will power upcoming community features on Comcast's TV, broadband data, and phone services Thu May 15 06:28:41 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111140 info@outsellinc.com http://www.knowledgespeak.com/news.asp Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a publishing partnership with the Cognitive Science Society. Under the deal, Wiley-Blackwell will publish the latter’s flagship journal, Cognitive Science. In partnership with the global publishe... Thu May 15 04:46:25 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111096 info@outsellinc.com http://www.proquest.com/pressroom/pressrelease/08/20080513.shtml ProQuest unveiled ProQuest Hospital Collection at the Medical Library Association's Annual Conference in Chicago. ProQuest Hospital Collection centralizes access to discovery and advisory tools essential to the practice and business of health care and is the first collection to address the expanse of hospital information needs with a single resource. Thu May 15 04:46:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111098 info@outsellinc.com http://www.thebookseller.com/news/58589-booksellers-resist-hachette-firm-sale.html Hachette Livre UK has said that discussions with retailers about firm sale on backlist are ongoing, after Booksellers Association president Graham Rand warned that changes should not be imposed on booksellers. Thu May 15 03:33:05 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111083 info@outsellinc.com http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-one-way-to-settle-a-lawsuit-ap-signs-letter-of-intent-to-acquire-moreov/ VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) has had news search and delivery firm Moreover Technologies on the blocks for months, part of the company’s to divest assets that don’t fit with its current strategy. Moreover had plenty of serious suitors back in 2005, when VeriSign bought it for $30 million—winning out over G... Thu May 15 02:04:34 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111070 info@outsellinc.com http://www.lse.co.uk/FinanceNews.asp?shareprice=&ArticleCode=uxc7mevcptr4l0m&ArticleHeadline=Informa_says_current_year_started_well_remains_confident_of_FY_prospects UK publisher and conference organiser Informa Plc. said its current year has started well, with trading in line with its expectations, and added that it remains confident about its full-year prospects. Wed May 14 23:57:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111061 info@outsellinc.com http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080515/ukw039.html?.v=12 blinkx PLC, the world's largest video search engine, reported financial results for the period ended 31 March 2008. For the second six months period 2008 ending 31 March 2008, revenues totalled $3.6 million. Revenues for the fiscal period, from 23 April (incorporation) ending 31 March 2008, totalled $6.55 million. Wed May 14 23:02:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111055 info@outsellinc.com http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2008/05/15/technology/askcom-buys-dictionarycom-parent-lexico.html&template=/technology/feeds/story-template-reuters.html Search site Ask.com will announce a deal to buy Lexico, home to popular reference websites Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, a move that will expand its audience by 11 percent. Wed May 14 21:45:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111044 info@outsellinc.com http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/363142_yahoo15.html Kicking off a potentially bruising corporate battle, billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly launching an effort to unseat Yahoo! Inc.'s board to pressure the web giant to restart takeover negotiations with Microsoft Corp. Wed May 14 18:53:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111027 info@outsellinc.com http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2226 comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, announced the election on May 9, 2008 of a new member of its board of directors — Jeffrey Ganek. Mr. Ganek will be seated as an immediate addition to the board of directors. Wed May 14 16:05:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111012 info@outsellinc.com http://www.euroinvestor.co.uk/News/ShowNewsStory.aspx?StoryId=9838400&BW=20080514006538 Acxiom Corporation announced that its Board of Directors has named John A. Adams to serve as the companys Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President. Wed May 14 15:10:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/111006 info@outsellinc.com http://www.dmnews.com/E-mail-is-key-for-b-to-b-marketers-in-UK-Newsweaver-survey/article/110103/ As more American ESPs have been taking on clients and opening offices in the UK — for example, e-Dialog and Datran Media — UK-based b-to-b e-mail marketing is on the rise, according to a new survey by e-mail marketing firm Newsweaver. Wed May 14 13:47:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110990 info@outsellinc.com http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/14/financial/f125930D78.DTL Google has surpassed Yahoo! to become the most popular website in the United States, according to comScore Inc.'s rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors. Wed May 14 13:41:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110991 info@outsellinc.com http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article3934802.ece Johnston Press, the regional newspaper group with more than 200 years of ties to Scotland’s Johnston family, turned to a Malaysian billionaire yesterday to help to raise £212 million. Wed May 14 13:30:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110982 info@outsellinc.com http://www.marketingvox.com/craigslist-countersuit-ebay-stole-trade-secrets-038586/ craigslist filed a countersuit against eBay, challenging the latter’s allegations that craigslist discriminated against eBay as a shareholder, and alleging that eBay used its minority stake in craigslist to steal corporate trade secrets for the launch of Kijiji, MediaBuyerPlanner writes. Wed May 14 12:53:49 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110998 info@outsellinc.com http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080514/20080514006342.html?.v=1 Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the world's largest provider of copyright licensing solutions, announced that A. Miles McNamee has joined CCC as Vice President of Business Development. Wed May 14 12:47:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110974 info@outsellinc.com http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_ge.jsp?cat=PRRELEASE&src=102&feed=cmt&section=news&news_id=cmt-135b2095&date=20080514&alias=/alias/money/cm/nw Information technology media company TechTarget, Inc. announced the launch of its 50th website - SearchSMBStorage.com. The new site provides IT professionals at small and mid-sized businesses with a comprehensive information resource for cost-saving strategies and best practices on all aspects of storage, including newer solutions and techniques such as iSCSI SANs; "all-in-one" storage systems; online backup and disaster recovery services; NAS systems; and Wizard-driven configuration and management. Wed May 14 10:31:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110959 info@outsellinc.com http://www.finextra.com/fullpr.asp?id=21366 As European countries increasingly embrace the IBEI (International Business Entity Identifier) code, Telekurs Financial has successfully promoted and implemented this unique standard for the identification of corporate entities - an important enabler of straight-through-processing (STP) in cross-border trading. Wed May 14 09:26:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110938 info@outsellinc.com http://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/media/press/discover_e.html Canada-based National Research Council's Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) has launched Discover, a suite of current and planned pay-per-article services. Discover is designed to allow any researcher to search a database of more than 20 million articles for free and pay by credit card to view and print those selected. No pre-registration, user name or password is required. Wed May 14 08:15:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110902 info@outsellinc.com http://sev.prnewswire.com/telecommunications/20080514/CLW03014052008-1.html Cox Communications announced highlights of its first quarter performance which demonstrated double-digit year-over-year growth in each of its core digital residential services - digital cable, high-speed internet and telephone. "Cox increased residential customer relationships by 1.3% and increased the number of triple play customers by nearly 20%, as compared to close of the first quarter of 2007, this despite intensifying competition and a challenging economy," said President Pat Esser. "We said that we would focus on being the best provider of telecommunications and entertainment services to our markets, selling more advanced services; our continuing growth shows we've done just that." Wed May 14 07:28:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110894 info@outsellinc.com http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/default.asp?catid={916AFF5B-CA4A-48FD-AD54-9AD2ADADEB88}&details_type=1&itemid={DB9E0C59-964A-41B0-9949-151E2B26E567} Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced the general release of version 2.0 of the Company’s Primo discovery and delivery solution. The result of close collaboration with the Primo customer community, version 2.0 offers enhanced searching capabilities, including the ability to search in very large collections; improved usability and accessibility of the user interface; and easier system configuration and customisation. Wed May 14 06:48:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110872 info@outsellinc.com http://www.epghealthmedia.com/page.cfm/pageid/9 IMR International Limited, UK, publishers of epgonline.org, has announced the launch of EPG Survey, a new web-based medical market research service. Qualified and practicing healthcare professionals in Europe are invited to join the EPG Survey panel. Membership is free and panel members are paid for participating in all online survey activities. Wed May 14 06:48:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110871 info@outsellinc.com http://venturebeat.com/2008/05/14/business-social-network-spoke-launches-its-own-business-email-feature/ Business social network Spoke is launching what it says is a better way for businesspeople to connect to each other. It has put together a database of more than 40 million people in the US and starting today it will let you email any of them. Wed May 14 05:57:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110841 info@outsellinc.com http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7399868.stm MySpace has won a $234m (£120m) legal judgement over junk messages sent to members of the social networking site. Wed May 14 02:28:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110812 info@outsellinc.com http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7400015.stm Advertising giant WPP has said it is "disappointed" that research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) has rejected its improved bid approach. TNS said on Tuesday it had rejected the £996m ($1.94bn) approach. It had previously snubbed an offer of £950m. Wed May 14 02:26:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110811 info@outsellinc.com http://www.tampabay.com/SearchForwardServlet.do?articleId=503649 How's this for bad timing? Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's law librarian received a publication she did not order and was subsequently billed for it. She told McCollum, who launched an investigation. Tuesday, McCollum said he reached an agreement with Thompson Publishing Group Inc. Tue May 13 20:51:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110747 info@outsellinc.com http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ae30c65c-1fc3-11dd-9216-000077b07658,dwp_uuid=4dce8136-4a24-11da-b8b1-0000779e2340.html Microsoft has launched its hosted customer relationship management service, Dynamics CRM Online. It is designed to steal business from online CRM pioneers such as Salesforce.com. Tue May 13 20:42:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110778 info@outsellinc.com http://www.btobonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080513/MEDIABUSINESS/897743481/1094/FREE A panel of media investors at American Business Media’s 2008 Spring Meeting said last week that deals are still getting done, although the structure of the transactions has changed dramatically as a result of tighter credit markets. Tue May 13 19:54:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110750 info@outsellinc.com http://www.btobonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080513/MEDIABUSINESS/554109763/1094/FREE The number of b-to-b publications offering digital editions increased more than 300% from 2005 to 2007, with total subscriptions also increasing more than 300% during that time period, according to the findings of a Gilbane Group study released last week. Tue May 13 19:54:00 -0700 2008 http://www.outsellinc.com/our_industry/headlines/110749 info@outsellinc.com