Forbes launches four new shows on Web site
Forbes.com announced Tuesday that it is launching four new shows on its online network. “We’re pleased to add these new shows to the Forbes Video lineup, which we continue to grow and enhance with new programs and technologies on a regular basis,” said Mia Haugen, Forbes managing editor, in a statement. “As we mark the […]
Forbes launchs Palm Pre app
Forbes.com announced Monday that it has launched an application for the Palm webOS platform, available now in the Palm app catalog on the Palm Pre phone. The app delivers news, analysis and opinion, as well as stock market updates to Palm Pre phones.  Users have free access to the latest Forbes.com content, including news from […]
Minyanville hires Forbes.com staffer
Minyanville announced Monday the hiring of Josh Lipton as a staff writer covering business and the markets and named Jonathan Schwartz as vice president of business and product development. “With the explosive growth we have been experiencing we needed to add capacity in both content creation and business development,” said Todd Harrison, Minyanville’s founder and […]
Why BusinessWeek will survive
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE A lot had been written and said in the past two weeks about BusinessWeek, which has been put up for sale by its parent company, McGraw-Hill. Some have even predicted that the company will be unable to sell the money-losing weekly and will end up closing it. Here’s five reasons why […]
The sexiest business reporters
The Business Insider has compiled a list of what it deems the “sexiest business reporters alive.” Here is the top 10, with the site’s comment: 1. David Faber of CNBC: It’s called ‘The Faber Report.” Need we say more? 2. Margaret Brennan of Bloomberg TV: Nice catch, Margaret! Nice catch, Bloomberg! 3. Andrew Ross Sorkin […]
The looming biz magazine shakeout
Robert MacMillan of Reuters writes Tuesday about the impending shakeout among business magazines. MacMillan writes, “Business news publishers rubbed their hands in glee when the financial crisis grabbed headlines last fall, saying the meltdown would deliver a windfall blown in by widespread interest in their stories. “It did not turn out that way. Appetite for […]
Memo from Steve Forbes on Forbes.com CEO's departure
Here is the memo from Steve Forbes on the departure of James Spanfeller, the CEO of Forbes.com, as providing to Talking Biz News from someone at Forbes: “Jim Spanfeller, President and CEO of Forbes.com, has decided to step down from leading our website after nine years. In the entrepreneurial spirit that Forbes has always championed, […]
Forbes.com CEO stepping down
Jeff Bercovici of DailyFinance.com reports that James Spanfeller, the CEO of Forbes.com, is stepping down. Bercovici writes, “Spanfeller did not respond to messages, but his departure is thought by insiders to be a result of pressure by Elevation Partners, the private equity group that bought a large minority stake in Forbes three years ago. In […]
The decade-long decline in advertising for business magazines
Nat Ives of Advertising Age writes about the decline in advertising that has occurred among the three big business magazines during the past decade. Ives writes, “A look at each title’s first-half ad pages over the last 10 years shows the affect of the prior boom and bust, along with this year’s sharp declines, but […]
The magazine bloodbath continues
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The second three months of 2009 was a disaster in the business magazine sector, as no publication reported an increase in advertising revenue or an increase in ad pages. The overall magazine industry saw a 22 percent decline in ad revenue and a 29.5 percent decline in ad pages, according to […]
