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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Another reminder that things - newspaper things - are different in Japan. Circulations are holding up. Some 51.5m papers are sold every day, about one for every household in the country. The Asahi Shimbun has 2,500 editorial staff. Its morning sale of 8m is more than the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Guardian put together. And it's...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
US chocolate maker Hershey is culturally a good match for Cadbury, the British confectioner's chief executive said in an interview out Saturday. Todd Stitzer told the Financial Times newspaper that the ethical values of the US brand tied in with Cadbury. Hershey and Italian peer Ferrero said Wednesday they were considering bids for Cadbury, in a move which whipped up a takeover war with Kraft Foods....
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A Change of Personnel (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
This doesn't seem to have been widely reported but gives politics and journalism a bad name, but it all to common. Imagine for a moment that a bank employee in the City of London was awarded £800,000 for unfair dismissal after a lengthy period of bullying by his or her boss. I haven't the slightest doubt that it would be a major news item in every newspaper - from the Financial Times to the Daily...
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PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The proposed sale of Ratiopharm is hotting up and, according to the Financial Times , a former chairman of the German generics drugmaker, has linked up with a private equity firm to join the auction. The newspaper says that Claudio Albrecht has joined forces with EQT, the private equity arm of Sweden's Wallenberg family, to prepare a bid for the world's fourth-largest generic drugmaker, which has...
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ROBOTS DREAMS (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Tomorrow morning readers of the FT magazine, distributed in the UK and Europe with the Financial Times newspaper, will get a special treat. This summer Robin Harding, one of the FT reporters based in Tokyo, was ‘adopted’ by the Team Espresso Pachigi ROBO-ONE soccer team and had the rare opportunity to experience what it’s like to be on the inside. Robin’s 8 page article (see...
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TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
We've been doing some more digging on the definitive moves by Microsoft to woo newspapers over to Bing and away from Google, a story we broke two weeks ago . Since then there have been some follow-up by various media outlets, notably the Financial Times this week which confirmed that Microsoft had had discussions with News Corp to “de-index” its news websites from Google. Who approached...
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SimoleonSense (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
(H/T Corner of Berkshire & Fairfax) Click Here To Read The German Newspaper Profile Of Charlie Munger *Note Article is in German and translated via Google translate Introduction (Via Financial Times Germany) Every investor knows Warren Buffett, but few of his partner Charlie Munger. Wrongly: The 85-year-old earned billions in the stock market. Odd, highly intelligent and quirky rude [...]
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Sure, Rupert Murdoch wants people to pay for his content, but now he's definitely considering upping the ante. From the Media Decoder : "News Corporation...has engaged in early stage discussions with Microsoft about a pact to get paid from Microsoft to remove its news content from Google’s search engine... The Financial Times first reported on the discussions, which involve Microsoft possibly...
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Osborne Ink (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
It's the best idea I've heard in ages: Rupert Murdoch wants to de-index from Google (which is less complicated than it sounds; you just insert a tiny string of HTML code) and go behind a paywall so that we rubes have to fork over cash to News Corp whenever we click a link to Murdoch's content. Of course, what will actually happen is that consumers (that's you) will click the link, find the paywall,...
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Good Morning Silicone Valley (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
So if Google, as the Aggregator in Chief, is as some publishers believe the bête noire of the newspaper industry, does that make Microsoft look like a white knight? The Redmond behemoth has apparently sensed such an opportunity, because according to the Financial Times (and TechCrunch before...
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AterSlash (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Hugh Pickens writes ”The Financial Times reports that Microsoft is in discussions to pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, to ‘de-index’ its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. Microsoft is desperate...
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact Financial Times Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company’s being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. The impetus for [...]
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Google Blogoscoped (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Financial Times reports that Microsoft has had discussions with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp media company "over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to 'de-index' its news websites from Google". Talks are at an "early stage", an unnamed sourced told the Financial Times, however, "Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to...
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Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Hugh Pickens writes "The Financial Times reports that Microsoft is in discussions to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, to 'de-index' its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. Microsoft is desperate to catch Google in...
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TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Congratulations to the Financial Times. It's taken them 10 days and three reporters to confirm our previous story that Microsoft and News Corp, along with plenty of other newspaper publishers, are in actual, formal discussions to encourage them to de-index from Google and will incentivise them with premium positions on the Bing search engine, revenue share and, in all likelihood, cold hard cash ....
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habser | 11/17/2009
Jaguar Land Rover is expected to announce today that it has secured a 170 million pounds ($282.5 million) five-year loan from GE Capital, says Financial Times newspaper. This new loan will be used by the company to recover from the global financial downturn.
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weblomaniac | 01/25/2009
McDonalds bucks the recession by announcing today that it will create 12,000 part time jobs and open 240 new restaurants in Europe this year. According the Financial Times, the company will hire 50 people at each of the 240 new restaurants, mostly in ...
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dhall987 | 01/21/2009
Sony Corp is preparing to announce on Wednesday or Thursday details of its December restructuring plan, including where job cuts will fall, the Financial Times reported.
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