Global Yellow Pages Blog
Just back from a week's vacation, and in the process of catching up, saw a couple of items online regarding Yell's (U.K.) recent legal action against Yellowikis, which bills itself as an online Yellow Pages directory built on a wiki…
As speculated for sometime now, Verizon Communications filed the necessary papers to spin its Yellow Pages business — Verizon Information Services (to be named Directories Corp.) — out to the public market. The paperwork with the SEC was filed today.…
Where Do Moviegoers Turn First for Movie Listings?New research conducted by The Kelsey Group shows that U.S. households are turning to a variety of offline and online local information sources to find movie listings. With "Superman Returns" topping $100 million…
At the recent EADP congress in Rome, Peter Darpo, CEO of European Directories, provided the audience with detailed information about the recently created European Directories. The company covers seven markets and has annual revenues of around 620 million euros and…
Dave Swanson, chairman and CEO of RHD, was recognized as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Carolina region. Three years ago Swanson and team packed up their boxes and moved from Purchase, N.Y., to Cary,…
The Yellow Pages Group held a CMR summit in Toronto last week. According to the ADM Flash, "During the last three years, Yellow Pages Group has been the fastest growing publisher in the world, has the highest EBITDA, highest IYP…
The roll-up of mom-and-pop Spanish-language directory publishers continues. Hispanic Yellow Pages of America, a portfolio company of Hispania Capital Partners of Chicago, has acquired the Milwaukee Hispanic Yellow Pages and Resource Guide. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Here…
Univision Communications, the largest Spanish language media company in the U.S. was sold to a group of private equity players for $12.3B. This comes after intense bidding by Grupo Televisa — a large media company in Mexico. Univision is the…
Before leaving the Bay Area this week to go to Atlanta and Seattle, I needed to make a hotel reservation in Seattle. It was suggested I try the Westin Seattle, so I went to the hotel's Web site — it's…
YellowPages.com has landed a new CTO, Brad Mohs, whose background includes stints at Scientific Games and AutoTrader.com. At Scientific Games, Mohs worked on developing software for lottery organizations, including systems capable of more than 1 million transactions per minute. At…
Seat Pagine Gialle has recently announced a beta version of a three-dimensional online Yellow Pages directory, called Pagine Gialle Visual. You can check out the beta here. Here is the press release if you're interested. Conceptually, this is a powerful…
Dow Jones reported at roughly 5:30 p.m. EST that Local Matters has priced its initial public offering of 3.3 million shares at between US$14 and US$16 per share. This works out to a range of US$46 million to US$53 million,…
Sol Trujillo, CEO of Australian telecom Telstra, was quoted in a June 24 article in The Australian as saying that Sensis, Telstra's search, directory and classified business, "basically is on track" to meet its target of doubling revenues by 2010.Trujillo's…
We offer our congratulations to Perry Evans, long a friend of The Kelsey Group, for being named "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst & Young in the software category. The award was given regionally and was announced at a Denver…
We just came across this item on the Asia Corporate News that Yellow Pages Singapore is getting some positive coverage from at least one financial analyst, a reflection of the company's ongoing turnaround efforts. One of the leaders of the…
David Jackson posted an invitation e-mail from Google regarding its pending CPA test. A CPA-based ad product is part of the wider strategy to push toward landing page optimization, conversion tracking products like the rumored GBuy, offline media ads and…
Canada's Yellow Pages Group has launched a beta version of its YellowPages.ca online directory. The company is touting the new site as a combination of an IYP and a local search product by allowing users to "obtain structured results with…
The French directory publisher PagesJaunes is, to no one's surprise, attracting considerable interest from private equities, which have led the pack of bidders for the 54 percent stake in PagesJaunes being sold off by France Telecom. Initial bids were reportedly…
