Posts Tagged ‘ canada ’

Canadian television series are being bought for summer schedules, at a much lower rate than usual for network TV.
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There's the 2010 international expansion Reed Hastings has been promising. It's Netflix' first Web-only offering, but it won't do Americans much good when they visit their neighbors to the north.
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Marketwire, the PR distribution service, has acquired Sysomos, a public relations company that specializes in social media analytics. Terms weren’t disclosed, according to Startup North, which first reported the purchase.

Inside the June 28 issue of The New Yorker, every ad page other than a house ad has been sold to Canadians: more than a dozen government units, tourism organizations, financial firms and educational institutions.
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Apple is selling 33,000 iPads per day, 1,388 iPads per hour and 23 iPads per minute.
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Two Canadians took a gamble that local news still matters this week. The two represent the hopes of both old and new media.

One was a $1.1 billion buyout (in Canadian dollars) of Canada's largest newspaper chain, the Canwest newspapers, led by experienced news executive Paul Godfrey.

The other was the launch of a hyper-local,...
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A group of creditors has purchased Canada’s largest newspaper publisher for $1.1 billion. The group is buying Canwest Limited Partners, which includes the National Post along with nine other dailies and 26 community newspapers. Canwest had filed for bankruptcy protection last fall; its TV operations were sold last...
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Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) CEO Tom Glocer pointed to the “tentative recovery” as helping fuel momentum for the company in the past quarter, as the company’s profits fell less than analysts anticipated. Still, revenue remained largely flat, as the financial sector, a major part of the company’s client base, was still...
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Ann Coulter popped up on Rick Sanchez's show today to clear up some misconceptions about her trip to Canada a few weeks back: she was joking when she said Muslims should use flying carpets, and the tape that shows her responding to a angry, Muslim, Canadian university student by advising her to take a...
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Canada’s Yellow Pages Group appears to be on something of a buying binge in the past month, as the Montreal-based directory publisher has acquired Canpages for $225 million (U.S. $220 million). This is YPG’s third acquisition within the past few weeks. Canpages, whose full name is Canadian Phone Directories Holdings, is being...
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