Newspaper Publishing – comparison of success and failure

Newspapers as a medium for news and advertising have a long history and challenged some competition from Radio, TV and now the internet. All had and have their effect on circulation, which is itself affecting the amount of money Publishers are making with advertising and their general health. So I had a glance on different [...]

Microsoft + Yahoo = Australias biggest channels have to rethink their Online strategies

The two biggest and most successful channels “Channel 7″ and “Channel 9″ in Australia have cooperation for their online-platforms with Yahoo! (Seven Network) called Yahoo!7 and MSN (Nine Network) called ninemsn to deliver news and ads for them.  Well, of course the upcoming acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft puts these cooperation into question. I don’t [...]

Germanys current strength and possible fallback

There have been some efforts by previous politics to gain strength again. That meant lowering the social security, but the same it strengthened the economy. With good results, Export is strong, the domestic market developed well and unemployment rates decreased. Last two years have been good and so the governmental spendings and earnings equalized. Great [...]

worldwide stock index crash due to US recession?

It only took the german index DAX two hours to temporally loose 5,5% of it’s value (decline of 403 points to 6911) this Monday morning, following bad results from Japan and China, but mainly due to bad news in the financial industry, mainly from Banks declaring billions of losses due to the crash in the [...]