TechCrunch: Europe’s biggest publisher embraces the WePad
Sunday, 4 April 2010, 19:44
"While Apple is still racing to the wire to secure enough media content partnerships for the iPad before its launch this week, the WePad has already bagged Europe’s biggest publisher, Gruner + Jahr. … Axel Springer, publisher of Europe’s biggest newspaper BILD is also in talks to use the WePad, says the latest rumour quoted by German newswire DPA."
Spiegel Online: Undressing with the iPhone: App ‘Censorship’ Has German Tabloid Fighting Mad
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 09:57
"German tabloid Bild wanted to allow readers to undress their daily page one girl on their iPhones. But the app has run afoul of Apple's decency standards, leading the paper to accuse the US computer giant of censorship."
Techcrunch: Badda Bing! Microsoft woos newspapers by funding their stick to beat Google
Sunday, 15 November 2009, 12:25
"Microsoft plans to launch an assault on Google’s flank, by cosying up to major content providers, especially newspapers, that feel hard done by Google News. It plans to use Bing as a way to entice them out of the Google eco-system, into one where, increasingly, the content of major newspapers could well be found more often on Bing than on Google. … Our sources say Microsoft has pledged to help fund research and engineering into ACAP to the tune of about will put £100,000. This is the more granular version of the robots.txt protocol which has been proposed by publishers to enable them to have a more sophisticated response to search engine crawlers. "
Media Week: Springer to produce Polish language weekly for the UK
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 14:13
"German publisher Axel Springer is launching a Polish weekly newspaper called Fakt for Great Britain, in a bid to cash in on the UK's burgeoning Polish population."
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 11:32
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"It is understood Candover and Cinven, who jointly own German publishing group Springer, have formed a consortium to submit a joint second offer for Emap’s business-to-business (B2B) publishing unit."
Monday, 30 July 2007, 17:49
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The redtop Bild wants its portal, Bild.T-Online, to overtake market leader Spiegel Online as Germany’s leading news site. Handelsblatt reports Bild is planing online versions of its regional editions.
