I am not sure if my standards have changed, I’m becoming susceptible to TV’s appeal, or it’s just getting better these days, but it seems as if there are more entertaining shows on TV these days than I can ever remember. Perhaps Tivo is simply making television more convenient and, correspondingly, less annoying. At any [...]
In yesterday’s post about the recent deal activity in the media and classified space, I forgot to mention another March deal. Taleo acquired JobFlash in an asset purchase worth about $3 million. The original investors in the deal, including Maveron LLC, Mosaic Venture Partners, and the Band of Angels, invested about $5.45 million in the [...]
Deal activity in the employment classifieds space continued its torrid pace in March. Online classifieds aggregator Oodle.com raised $11 million in a series B round and Beyond.com, which delivers content, services, and classifieds to a network of niche job boards, raised $13.5 million in its first institutional round. Oodle’s round was led by new investor [...]
Time Inc. reported this morning that Life magazine, which had been relegated to a daily newspaper supplement in 2004, was finally being put to death. In the press release announcing the decision, Time placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of the daily newspapers that were inserting the magazine into their Sunday editions. “While consumers [...]
Two excellent posts appeared in the last few days on the certain death of daily newspapers. Stowe Boyd makes some great points in his post ‘Newspapers Are Dead Already‘ and links to Doc Searls’ terrific post ‘How To Save Newspapers.’ As both articles rightly conclude, along with countless others, the daily newspaper industry is [...]
A recent email that arrived into our company from Career Builder looks strikingly similar to ads for Job Central. The Career Builder ad relates to their resume upgrade service, while the Job Central ad is part of their overall branding campaign. Not only are the copy and images for both companies pretty boring, they are [...]
It does happen on occasion that a solid piece of legislation comes out of Congress and becomes law. Hopefully that will be the case with the Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Act. The bill, which is making its way through Congress, would give a 25% tax credit to accredited investors who make investments in early-stage [...]
One of yesterday’s MediaPost articles entitled “Newspaper Round-up: Online Classified Partnerships” cited the 2006 Deutsche Bank study on print/web partnerships that are now sweeping the industry, at least among the big 3 - Career Builder, Monster, and Yahoo!. The Deutsche Bank study found that newspapers that are part of a larger, online network delivering job [...]
As a follow-up to a post earlier this week about Monster’s announced partnership with Adicio, whereby Adicio’s newspaper clients can upsell listings on Monster to their employer advertisers, I read that one of the newspapers in the Adicio network is the Minneapolis Star Tribune. After the paper’s sale from McClatchy to Avista Capital Management, the [...]
Despite how poorly U.S. schools have fared against other industrialized nations over the past decade, there apparently is hope that the country is still capable of developing geniuses. The winner of the Intel Science Talent Search, 17 year-old Mary Masterson, built a working spectograph at home for $300 and won a $100,000 scholarship. The device, [...]