Stories by PRNEWS

Are Indies Virtually Recession-Proof?

April 16th, 2001 by

Imagine having a team of hands-on, seasoned professionals on your account – none with fewer than seven years’ experience – and being billed at junior level rates. This is the sales proposition Aimee Quemuel floats… Continued

Borders.com Sells Mags

April 9th, 2001 by

A soft ad market notwithstanding, Borders.com is expanding into an area that rival Amazon.com hasn’t yet: magazines. In partnership with the Minneapolis-based MegaMags, the Anne Arbor-based bookseller now features more than 21,000 magazine titles in… Continued

Work.com is All Business Now

April 9th, 2001 by

Business.com has acquired all traffic and assets of the now-defunct work.com, which served original content up to small and mid-sized businesses. Work.com enjoyed 600,000 unique visitors each month but ceased operations March 31. Business.com, which… Continued

Hope for Success

April 9th, 2001 by

Business experts have long thought that a great company culture makes for great company profits. Now Success Magazine is putting together a list of the best biz cultures. The Success 100 debuts in July, listing… Continued

Wireless Internet Launches

April 9th, 2001 by

More dotcoms are shrinking their staffs. (Even WSJ.com, The Wall Street Journal’s online version and one of the Web’s biggest profit stars, announced layoffs this week). But Cahners Business Information boldly launches a new Web-related… Continued

Powerful Media Merger

April 9th, 2001 by

Brill Media Holdings and Powerful Media are the latest big-name publishers to join forces. Under the deal, Inside.com publisher Powerful Media will exchange assets for a stake in Brill Media Holdings, parent of Brill’s Content… Continued

Dr. Laura Discharged From TV

April 9th, 2001 by

Controversial talk-meister and gay-community-enemy Dr. Laura Schlessinger has been axed from Paramount Domestic Television’s line-up. “Good Friday came two weeks early for us,” said Cathy Renna, news media relations director for the Gay & Lesbian… Continued

This Just In…

April 9th, 2001 by

Software maker MicroStrategy lays off 600 staffers in response to the weakening economy. The Vienna, VA-based software maker is still reeling from a U.S. District Court settlement of a suit that alleged CEO Michael Saylor… Continued

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April 9th, 2001 by

“If we win we’re going to riot. If we lose we’re going to riot. The police will just have to accept that.” These words, from a University of Maryland student to a TV reporter, hardly… Continued

Wasted Web Space

April 9th, 2001 by

Web Guru, author, and consultant Jakob Nielsen released an April 1 study (assuring us it was not a joke), saying that only 60% of corporate sites divulge basic information journalists need. Writes Nielsen, “Why spend… Continued