In terms of regional press “sorting out online”, the report identifies a need to crack the “bad habit” of “expecting advertisers to buy packaged areas, while proclaiming “life is local”, when advertisers want tighter geographical targeting. This applies t

The majority of companies planned to increase their online marketing budget in the next three years but most admitted to uncertainty over how best to do it and 31 per cent said they had a limited understanding of the online environment.

There is a notion that, in the hands of local businessmen, the newspapers will return to what is being called “grassroots values”. All of a sudden, the theory goes, readers will care again and the newspapers will miraculously attract more sales and ad

Studies estimate that a third of all stock trades in the United States were driven by automatic algorithms last year, contributing to an explosion in stock market activity. Between 1995 and 2005, the average daily volume of shares traded on the New York S

Media buying agencies from each of the five largest ad companies have become partners with Hewlett-Packard and the other companies involved in eBay’s test. And agencies, through an industry group, are working to modernize their ad-buying systems, so they

Yahoo’s size and its status as – in theory – a growth company probably rules out a buy-out. The obvious alternative for its board is to replace Mr Semel. If Mr Semel is to avoid that fate, he will have to reform from within. It is one of the hardest tasks

Ove Arup pensioners now record briefings on their specialist topics to video. Using Autonomy software, later generations of workers searching for information will be able to pull up relevant segments of the videos as well as text.

The low-profile Mr Evans, who made an unsuccessful attempt to buy the tabloid in 2004, is willing to offer about £550 million to £600 million — far less than the £700 million to £800 million last time.

Schibsted’s strategy is to use national newspapers to bring readers online — providing free access to the papers’ content and putting money into the Web sites to make them more attractive, according to Atle Vereide, head of research at investment bank SE

Too right – “I don’t have a plan to shift the strategy” at AOL, said Mr. Falco, 52, who comes to the online unit from a long career at General Electric Co’s NBC Universal. “The strategy is right. The implementation has to be right as well, and that’s what

Channel 4 beats BBC and ITV to punch …a key element of E4.com would be the ability to “tag” images and share them with others. Users can see the personal links stored by others under their key-word “tags” and seek out people with shared interest

“Online payments mechanisms are beginning to face competitive threats in the form of new payment methods, such as direct-to-bill,” says Fran Heeran, CTO of Valista, a payments technology company. “Companies, such as internet service providers, allow their

As I’ve written elsewhere, I think a healthy Yahoo is a good counter-balance to the threat of an all-Google world. And I think healthy newspapers are very important to journalists and their communities. But if they’re joining together to prop up old model

Analysis of The Times re-design

Meanwhile, one of the nation’s largest newspaper chains, Gannett, has seen the rate of online growth at its domestic community newspapers slow dramatically: first-quarter revenue was up 35% over the same period in 2005, while the second quarter showed 27%

Mr Garlinghouse argued: “There are so many people in charge (or believe that they are in charge) that it’s not clear if anyone is in charge.

“We are separated into silos that far too frequently don’t talk to each other. And when we do talk, it isn’t to

Lex on the recent round of changes

The system will monitor the status of about 120 public parking garages across the French capital. From their phones, drivers will be able to find out whether a nearby garage is open and has places available.

More than two years ago, Reuters, the financial news service, opened a new center in Bangalore. The 340 employees, including an editorial team of 13 local journalists, was deployed to write about corporate earnings and broker research on U.S. companies. S

Under the proposed five-year agreement, the newspapers will have the right to sell ads on Yahoo HotJobs on their own or as part of a bundle with newspaper ads. It also allows the newspapers to sell employers access to HotJobs’s résumé database. The deal

HMV’s share is predicted to grow to 23.7 per cent by 2010, up from 20.8 per cent at present. Its online share will almost double to 2.6 per cent over the same period. This growth will come at the expense of general merchandisers – such as Woolworths and

“The more people disparage ‘old media,’ the happier I am,” said Robert Berner, managing director of Ripplewood. “These companies don’t require a lot of capital investment. They sell subscriptions, so you get the money up front and deliver the product over

Oh dear …

The upside of the ongoing shift to online advertising is that newspapers are getting more than their share of those ads on their Web sites. But typically, those online ads account for only 5 percent to 6 percent of a paper’s total ad revenues, he said.

Virgin.net, owned by NTL, came out top for customer satisfaction in the broadband market, and Telewest was considered best for customer service.

Is print heading for obsolescence? Or can it re-invent itself and reach out to a generation brought up looking at screens? Leading media figures tell Ian Burrell where we’re going from here

Report on click fraud

Collective action to create value in news content, while unorthodox, could enable newspapers to retool themselves into Internet businesses that can sustain the costly editorial staffs needed to create the content. For an industry that seems to be running