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Axel Springer to fund mobile shopping platform
Retale, a location-based mobile platform connecting more than 3.5 million shoppers with their favourite major retailers locally and based on the German kaufDA business model, announced it has secured...
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ProSieben and Axel Springer in merger talks
Two of Germany’s biggest media businesses, ProSiebenSat.1 and Axel Springer, are in talks about a combination that could improve their ability to compete with US digital heavyweights such as Google and...
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Pearson agrees to sale of FT Group to Nikkei Inc. for £844m
Pearson is today announcing that it has agreed the sale of FT Group to Nikkei Inc. for a gross consideration of £844 million, payable in cash. Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news...
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German news publishers join micropayments site Blendle
German newspaper groups including Axel Springer and the publishers of Der Spiegel are working with a Dutch start-up to offer individual articles in exchange for micropayments through a platform...
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Axel Springer joins long media march from Russia
Axel Springer, Europe’s biggest news publisher by circulation, has become the latest media group to pull out of Russia after the country passed a law limiting foreign ownership of its media.The German...
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Axel Springer Eyes ‘Business Insider’
Axel Springer, the German publishing house that puts out Germany’s largest tabloid, Bild, is said to be considering buying U.S. online news publisher Business Insider, according to a report in...
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Axel Springer regroups after failing in two headline media deals
First, Axel Springer was outbid in an auction to buy the FT Group, owner of the Financial Times, just as it had lost out in the sale of another British newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, in 2004. Second,...
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Publishers are in peril from annoying ads
There is nothing so inspiring as a person triumphing over disaster — the narrative of many books and films. So the sight of Henry Blodget, the former Wall Street analyst who was disgraced in the 1990s...
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Axel Springer Buys Business Insider
Axel Springer has made good on earlier reports that it was close to buying business news site Business Insider. The company, which already owned a 9 percent stake, announced this morning that it’s...
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Axel Springer bans adblock users from Bild online
Germany’s Axel Springer has banned readers who use adblockers from its Bild tabloid website, stepping up a fadblockers from its Bild tabloid website, stepping up a fight by publishers to stop online...
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Reuters’ patent and trademark business could fetch $3B
Thomson Reuters Corp. (TRI) could fetch nearly $3 billion for its Intellectual Property & Science business from either a strategic or financial buyer, according to company followers, as the...
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Axel Springer Goes To Court Over Ad Blocking
German publisher Axel Springer, which recently acquired Business Insider and took a stake in Thrillist Media Group, is taking its fight against online ad blocking to the legal arena with a new lawsuit...
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Flashes&Flames: Can Axel Springer do the ‘impossible’?
Stories about the reinvention of daily newspaper companies are often not what they seem. They tend to involve traditional media groups not so much investing in the future of news as placing their bets...
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Axel Springer sees earnings rise 10% amid digital growth
Axel Springer announced a 10 per cent increase in earnings for last year as growth in its digital business offset declines in print. The German media group — which owns quality broadsheet Die Welt as...
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Axel Springer buys eMarketer to reduce digital ad dependency
Axel Springer has snapped up market research firm eMarketer in a $250m (£173m) deal as the German publisher continues to focus on building its digital subscription business and reducing dependence on...
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How daily newspapers can win after all
Flashes&Flames: Murdoch might cast envious eyes at the 129-year-old, family-owned Hearst Corporation which has built an unrivalled multi-media business, not least by investing widely in long-term...
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Can Axel Springer do the ‘impossible’?
Stories about the reinvention of daily newspaper companies are often not what they seem. They tend to involve traditional media groups not so much investing in the future of news as placing their bets...
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Axel Springer chief warns traditional media risk extinction
Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of German publisher Axel Springer, has outlined an apocalyptic vision for old media, warning many traditional companies will die, unless they reach agreement with the...
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Publisher Axel Springer (SPRGn.DE) plans to launch Germany’s first daily sports newspaper next month, focusing on soccer as it seeks to offset a decline in sales at its established print business...
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Axel Springer plans pan-European Upday news service
Axel Springer is to expand its mobile news service Upday from four to 16 countries in Europe this year, as the German media group accelerates its shift into digital publishing. Upday, a news aggregator...
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