Apple delivered a valuable lesson on corporate ethics with its recent decision regarding the ‘I Am Rich’ iPhone application. Unfortunately, the lesson was apparently lost on the Employment Guide.
With the release of version 2.0 for the iPhone, developers began releasing new iPhone applications via the Apple App Store. It didn’t take long before Apple was [...]
Some nice articles today on JobDig and LinkUp from Cheezhead and ERE’s Michael Glenn.
Thanks for the coverage!
Last month, a French court ruled that ebay must pay $61 million to LVMH for allowing the sale of fake luxury goods on its site. Though ebay is appealing the ruling, it’s a fascinating case that is garnering widespead attention for its implications on how business is conducted on the web. There are good arguments [...]
Surprising no one since all of the other bidders had dropped out, NBC, with support from Blackstone and Bain, purchased the Weather Channel and Weather.com for just under $3.5 billion. Landmark Communications, a private equity group owned by the Batten family and owners of the Weather Channel as well as a number of daily and [...]
Always one step ahead of everyone else, Cheezhead has declared that he has moved beyond ripping Monster, declaring in an early June podcast that he no longer finds it sporting, fun, or even interesting. I still, however, cannot resist. Monster has lost its leadership position in online classifieds to CareerBuilder in large part because the [...]
As I have written about previously, Landmark Communications has put its media assets up for sale. In addition to The Weather Channel, the crown jewel of the group, the private equity firm owns a bunch of small and medium-sized dailies and community newspapers, shoppers and weeklies, and the Employment Guide. Lehman Brothers, who is handling [...]
As detailed in a new study by Yankelovich in association with Sequent Partners, traditional media delivers a significantly more positive impression on consumers than digital media. The study, entitled “When Advertising Works” was released yesterday and tested people’s reactions to various advertisements across 16 media channels. The traditional media, which included TV, billboards, magazines, newspapers, [...]
As if dancing around onstage like a drunken buffoon wasn’t enough, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer followed it up by declaring that all media will be delivered over an IP network within 10 years. Though there are a ton of enormous ramifications to that prediction (ever read a book, Steve?), one of them is that there [...]
JobDig launched in Amarillo, Texas this week, with our first print edition hitting the streets on Monday morning.
Tags: Texas, JobDig, Multimedia Recruitment Advertising, Multi-channel recruitemtn advertising, Free Weekly Jobs Papers, Who Will Buy The Employment Guide?
Silicon Alley Insider Henry Blodget recently wrote a post that Craigslist was worth $5 billion. It’s an interesting question to consider what Craigslist might be worth, and Blodget runs through what appears to be a decent, back-of-the-envelope type analysis. But in the end, the valuation of $5B is overstated and the entire exercise is just [...]