Reed
evolves to go with the flow
Sunday Times, April 8
Shorn of its troubled education arm, Reed Elsevier will be better able to focus on
transforming itself for the digital age. The company has mostly avoided the digital
storms that have battered media companies as varied as ITV, EMI and Trinity Mirror.
Reed’s leading positions in science, legal and business publishing — it owns The
Lancet, Lexis Nexis and Estates Gazette — have enabled it to secure a steady increase
in online revenues from its sophisticated professional and academic customers. Electronic
sales have grown from $1.1 billion (£600m) in 1999, when Davis took over as chief
executive, to an estimated $3.7 billion last year.
Agence France-Presse, a global news agency based in Paris, has settled
its lawsuit against Google and will allow the internet search leader to post news and
photos from AFP journalists. The deal settles the copyright infringement lawsuit that AFP
filed in March 2005 accusing Google of posting news summaries, headlines and photos
without permission. Financial details of the settlement were not disclosed.
Apple
sells 100 millionth iPod
New Zealand Herald, April 11
Apple Inc. has sold its 100 millionth iPod in just over five years,
boasting today that the digital device was "the fastest selling music player in
history" that appeals to both young and old.
Since its November 2001 launch, the portable music player has become the
must-have gadget world-wide, with Apple introducing more than 10 new models to incorporate
changing technology such as the ability to record and play videos, hold photos, and with
more varied, fashionable colours.
Google
Earth maps atrocities in Darfur
New Zealand Herald, April 11
Search engine Google and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum launched an
online mapping project today to provide what the museum said was evidence of atrocities
committed in Sudan's western Darfur region. More than 200,000 people have been killed in
Darfur since 2003 and some of this carnage -- which the United States calls the first
genocide of this century -- has been detailed by Google Earth, the search engine's mapping
service Google Earth
Google
To Acquire DoubleClick For $3.1 Billion
New York Times, April 14
Google
reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from
two private equity firms for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies announced, an amount that
was almost double the $1.65 billion in stock that Google paid for YouTube late last year.
The sale offers Google access to DoubleClick’s advertisement software and, more
importantly, its relationships with Web publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies.
Google
acquires Tonic Systems
Google blog, April 17
Tonic, which Google has just acquired, is based in San Francisco and Melbourne,
Australia. They have technology for presentation creation and document conversion, and
Google will add presentation sharing and collaboration capabilities to Google Docs &
Spreadsheets.
ProQuest CSA and
MLA announce deal to provide online reference and newspaper services to England’s
public libraries
Proquest, April 18
ProQuest CSA and the Museum, Libraries and Archive Council (MLA) have
announced the launch of KnowUK and NewsUK online
reference and newspapers services for public libraries in England.
The agreement to
deliver these two core online reference and newspaper services to participating public
libraries is the result of a deal brokered between the MLA, on behalf of public libraries
in England, and ProQuest CSA. These services will be offered via MLA’s Reference
Online, part of the wider Framework for the Future programme.
Google
has acquired Marratech
Search Engine Journal, April 20th
Google has acquired Marratech video conferencing software which will enable
desktop driven videoconferencing from Google. Expect integration of the Marratech
videoconferencing software into the Google Personalized Homepage Google Apps and Google
Talk.
Editor's note:
See Google's
announcement which makes it clear that they have acquired the software, not the
company.
Elsevier
Extends ScienceDirect ArticleChoice to Academic Institutes Worldwide
Elsevier Press Release, April 20th
Following the successful launch of ScienceDirect ArticleChoice to the corporate market
in 2005 and government market in August 2006, Elsevier is now offering the same flexible
access option to academic customers.
ScienceDirect ArticleChoice allows a customer to access journal, handbook and book
series articles that are outside their current portfolio. Articles can be purchased in
bundles (100, 200, and 500), and are available as required. IP access ensures that
articles can be downloaded multiple times within 24 hours at no additional cost.
ScienceDirect
Embraces New Web Applications
Elsevier Press Release, April 25th
Elsevier is including several new features on its ScienceDirect platform from April
onwards The latest additions build on the August 2006 ScienceDirect Redesign, which
transformed the platform and brought users the STM information they want, faster. The
highlights include:
- Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds
- Cited By in Scopus
- Live Chat
- Inward linking simplification
Online
sales ‘will hit £78bn’
Sunday Times, April 29
Shoppers will spend £78 billion a year online by 2010 – doubling the web’s
share of retail sales to 20%. This year internet shopping is expected to reach £42
billion – equivalent to the turnover of supermarket giant Tesco, Britain’s
biggest retailer.
Internet sales have exploded over the past six years, growing by 3,553% between April
2000 and December 2006. During that period the monthly value of UK e-retail sales rose
from £87m to £3.6 billion. Internet sales were only £800m in 2000, the year of the
dotcom boom. The first-ever online transaction was a CD sale in America in August 1994.
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