One of iPad’s flagship apps wants to help publishers sell ads by flipping back to familiar old print rules. “One of the big problems with the web is that it scrolls,” Flipboard CEO Mike McCue told our recent paidContent Advertising conference. » Watch the video of McCue’s Q&A with paidContent UK…

From Flipboard and Aol Editions, to Ongo and News.me, the rise of tablets and apps is changing how we gather and consume content.  A couple of apps have grabbed the headlines in recent months. Flipboard has closed over $60 million in funding and has a $200 million valuation. More recently,…

Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC‘s magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription magazines in the UK: commercial division BBC Worldwide has agreed on a multi-faceted sale of its assets, covering 34 magazine titles, to the private equity group Exponent. BBCWW has also…

If 2009 in the digital-media world needed a title, you could argue it would likely be something to the effect of: “Social media goes mainstream.” Indeed, it’s no secret that social media is a huge force these days, but big questions remain about how companies – even the biggest, buzziest…

The results of the latest round of Indian Readership Survey is out and here’s a compilation of how some of the most popular English newspapers and magazines fared. All figures in this story are all-India average issue readership. Of the 25 English newspapers covered by this round, 12 registered an…

9.9 Media, the New Delhi-headquartered B2B publisher, today launched CFO India, a monthly targeted at finance professionals. The title is under a controlled circulation model right now and will be shortly available on select newsstands at Rs50, 9.9 Media co-founder and director Anuradha Das Mathur said. The magazine has about…

Bloomberg LP, which came in late into the race for the troubled BusinessWeek, has emerged the winning bidder. The magazine, BusinessWeek.com and other assets will go to Bloomberg for a reported $3-5 million in cash and liabilities.  Here’s a round up of our close coverage of the deal: ——Bloomberg Wins…

Last-minute entrant Bloomberg L.P. has won the bidding for BusinessWeek, agreeing to acquire the venerable business magazine, BusinessWeek.com and other assets from McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) for an undisclosed amount. BW puts the deal in the “$2 million to $5 million range” plus liabilities, including potential severance payments—not the $1 some…

For all of you who have asked over the years when the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle would be available outside the U.S., the answer is finally “now.” The Amazon World Kindle, aimed at English-language readers, is now being sold for $279 with international 3G wireless from AT&T (NYSE: T) covering…

Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) is closing the historic Far Eastern Economic Review in December, already a shell of itself, saying the “continued losses in advertising revenue and readers are now unsustainable.” The company introduced the news with the statement starting this fall, it “will focus on its core publications to…

Markand Adhikari, promoter of Broadcast Initiatives Ltd, is launching a magazine that will focus on matters related to government and governance. The magazine is expected to launch in late October. B. Venkat Rao, former group editor at Zee News, has been hired as editor. “The magazine will be targetted at…

The youth wing of the ruling Indian National Congress party is launching a monthly magazine that is said to be the brainchild of party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, IANS reports. Young March will be the mouth piece of the Youth Congress the way Sandesh is to Congress. Youth Congress general…

The official word is out from MGH, in a carefully worded release: “The McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) Companies today announced that it is exploring strategic options for BusinessWeek. BusinessWeek is a globally respected brand and one of the world’s leading sources of essential and trusted content that informs and inspires business…

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee delivered a budget that brought some cheer and some additional taxation to the media sector. Key points: 1) Fringe Benefit Tax abolished: This was a key demand from many players in contentSutra’s Wishlist For The New I&B Minister. Many key overheads for media houses, such as…

Taking advantage of policy changes late last year that allows Indian editions of foreign titles, the British magazine Spectator, owned by the publishers of The Daily Telegraph, will launch an Indian edition. The magazine is being launched here by the Anandabazar Patrika Group. The 181-year-old magazine will be the second…

Nineteen months after it entered into an arrangement with Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to launch an Indian edition of Fortune magazine, the Kolkata-based ABP Group has set the ball in motion for the launch of the fortnightly business magazine, known for its annual ranking of the world’s 500 biggest corporations.…

Reacting to the outcome of general elections that were known Saturday, India’s markets breached the upper circuit within a minute of opening trade on Monday and had to be halted for the day when they were reopened two hours later. In country-wide elections, whose results were announced on Saturday, the…

The 2009 Round One of the Indian Readership Survey is out, with mixed trends. Only nine of the top 25 most read publications (including dailies and periodicals) registered a growth in readership. The combined percentage decline in readership, for the 16 publications that registered a drop, was 51.89%. In the…

TV18 India Ltd has received the requisite license from the ministry of information and broadcasting to publish the Indian edition of Forbes magazine, according to a person familiar with the situation. The magazine will hit newsstands by the third week of May, our source said. TV18, part of Raghav Bahl-promoted…