Earlier this week my colleague Charles Laughlin wrote about "The Yellow Pages Brand Fight Developing in Germany." In short Deutsche Telekom, the largest communications company in Europe, lost its trademark for the name "Gelbe Seiten" (Yellow Pages), which it registered…
In our recently released special report on the newspaper industry, we profiled a few partnerships between traditional publishers and online players and speculated about future arrangements. One potential deal that clearly made sense involved WebVisible, a provider of interactive online…
Yelp, a social network/Yellow Pages hybrid, has launched a mobile version for the Palm Treo as part of a broader marketing relationship between the two companies. Terms are not being disclosed, but cash and tech support have likely been provided…
Canada's Yellow Pages Group just released its 2Q and first-half numbers. On a comparable basis, its 2Q directory revenue growth rate was 4.7 percent and EBITDA was up 8 percent. The company's guidance for the full year is top-line growth…
Now that the dust has settled, it is time to begin assessing the local impact of Fox Interactive's alliance with Google. The three-year, nine-month deal gives Google a place on MySpace's upcoming toolbar, and the right to place ads on…
Google and Fox Interactive signed a three-year and nine-month agreement worth $900 million, assuming certain traffic levels are achieved. As part of the deal, Google will become the exclusive search and text-based ad partner for Fox Interactive properties including MySpace.…
Google will start distributing video clips from MTV Networks shows as a source of content and revenues for its video affiliate partners. The deal includes 100 hours of programming, including "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County," "SpongeBob SquarePants" and MTV's…
Taiwan-based Alpha Networks is planning to mass produce a Wi-Fi mobile phone that includes Google Talk functionality. According to Alpha Networks CTO Tim Kang, "In addition to its voice functionality, Alpha Networks' first Google Talk-enabled WiFi phone will also support…
New to the college orientation agenda this year are warnings about the consequences of posting on social networking sites. A few colleges across the country have been telling students that employers are starting to check student profiles. In some instances,…
Intel is in discussions to build a new broadband network with Woosh Wireless in New Zealand. Recently, Intel invested $A37 million in a Sydney-based wireless company called Unwired. Intel's investments in WiMax networks are part of a larger strategic initiative…
Yahoo! and Canaan Partners have invested US$8.6 million in BharatMatrimony, a group of India-based wedding, lifestyle and vertical search sites. This is the first investment in India by both Canaan and Yahoo!. Canaan was an original investor in Match.com in…
Seattle-based Marchex today announced the launch of MyZip.com, which will implement the company's existing 75,000-plus ZIP code Web sites. Marchex will position MyZip.com as a destination for local directional content and information and as the umbrella brand around its individual…
Google today announced that it will pay $900 million to be the exclusive paid search provider of MySpace. Yahoo! previously provided its search platform to run ads throughout the MySpace network. Fox Interactive Media will integrate Google paid search throughout…
Verizon SuperPages and YellowPages.com have signed with UrbanMapping.com to license technology that will enable them to show listings by neighborhood name. The IYPs currently only show geo-information by city name or ZIP code.Sorting directory info by neighborhood names sometimes makes…
We've been following news reports today regarding the decision of Germany patents and brands office (the German acronym is DPMA) to delete the term "Gelbe Seiten," the German phrase for "Yellow Pages," from its register of brand names that are…
It scares me too, but typical communications grads aren't necessarily news junkies, according to a newly released annual survey of new communications grads by The University of Georgia. Even though grads aren't especially big consumers of news in any medium,…
Yell's acquisition of the Spanish publisher TPI was made official earlier this week. Here is the statement from Yell:Yell Group plc ("Yell") today announced the closing of its acquisition of the Spanish directories business Telefonica Publicidad e Informacion S.A. ("TPI")…
According to this article in the Guardian newspaper, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has offered an unspecified amount of financial help to U.K.-based Yellowikis, which faces a costly legal fight with Yell.Yell, the leading directory publisher in the U.K., is going…
Pginas Amarelas SA (Yellow Pages) launched a new tourist guide for Portugal in both Portuguese and English. A total of 220,000 copies have been printed of the complimentary guide and distributed to 1,500 distribution outlets. The guide maintains a tourism-related…
Jonathan Miller informed employees that AOL will eliminate 5,000 of 19,000 positions, or about 25 percent of its workforce. The reductions will take place over the next six months as the company focuses on advertising instead of dial-up subscriptions. A…
