Articles from Business Publisher (August 16, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Franchise Market" magazine for entrepreneurs/small businesses.			180
"The Hollywood reporter, Esq launched by VNU.		Brief article	247
A new b2b media company has been formed by former Canon Communications CEO William Cobert.			77
American Scientific Publishers (ASP; Stevenson Ranch, CA) has launched "Journal of Scanning Probe Microscopy," a new quarterly journal that covers all forms of scanning probe microscopy (SPM), one of the driving forces behind the rapid development of nanoscience and nanotechnology.			101
Berkeley Electronic Press (BEP; Berkeley, CA) has launched "Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis," a biannual title that is designed to help improve the practice of business valuation and economic loss analysis by "helping to inform academics, practitioners, and attorneys about theoretical and practical developments," BEP said.			77
Brightstar Education Group (Fresno, CA), a company formed by private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners (Washington, D.C.) to acquire and consolidate for-profit post-secondary education schools focusing in health, business, technology, culinary and other vocational curricula, has purchased MyPublicInfo, Inc.			57
BTS Group AB (Stockholm), a business simulation training and consulting company, has signed a letter of intent to acquire the businesses of The Advantage Performance Group (APG; Tiburon, CA) and The Real Learning Company (RLC; Scottsdale, AZ), two privately held training and consulting organizations.			130
Business publisher stock quotes.			147
Closely following its purchase of "Radio & Records," VNU has ceased publication of "Billboard Radio Monitor," a weekly trade title that follows the radio industry and tracks the monitoring of songs by format, station and audience, and has merged content with "Radio & Records.".		Brief article	104
Comparison of revenue and net income for selected trade and business information companies, first half 2005-2006.			341
Conde Nast business mag to launch as "Conde Nast Portfolio".			272
Current Science, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) has begun the publication of two new journals.		Brief article	161
Euromoney Institutional Investor's (New York) Hedge Fund Intelligence unit has launched "South AfricaHedge," a monthly newsletter that carries information and business intelligence on new fund launches, developments amongst existing funds, performance data on South African funds, and investment opportunities throughout Africa.			61
Forester Comm. launches "Water Efficiency".			191
John Wiley acquires two medical titles.			336
Mergermarket Group sold to Pearson.			224
Metal Bulletin sold to Euromoney institutional investor.			282
MIT Press' (Cambridge, MA) Science, Technology & Medicine group has begun the publication of "Biological Theory," a new quarterly journal that is devoted to coverage of theoretical advances in the biological and cognitive sciences.		Brief article	85
New company launches mag for Municipal Wireless Industry.			244
New journals from Springer Science + Business.		Brief article	236
PennWell acquires dental continuing education company.			239
Promedia.travel (Stamford, CT), a company formed earlier this "AgriMarketing Magazine" (Chesterfield, MO), produced by Henderson Communications, has launched "AgriMarketing Weekly," a e-newsletter distributed each Monday to 5000 corporate agribusiness executives, their communications agencies, the farm media and trade association executives that serve the North American agricultural industry.			87
Psychology Press (New York), a division of Taylor & Francis, has begun the publication of "Social Neuroscience," a new quarterly journal that attempts to explain the psychological and neural basis of social and emotional behaviors in humans and animals.			99
Standex International Corp. (Salem, NH), a manufacturer in four broad business segments, has sold its Standard Publishing business to a new affiliate, Standard Publishing Group, of The Wicks Group of Companies (New York).			84
There were 19 acquisitions valued at $2.065 billion in the B2B Magazine category in the first half of 2006, according to figure supplied by Jordan, Edmiston Group (New York, compared to 26 deals valued at $1.696 billion in the first six months of 2005.			136
UCG sells ATX/Kleinrock to CCH.			207
VNU Business Media.		Brief article	67
VNU sells "Sporting Goods Business" & related properties.			234
Weiss Group sells ratings business to thestreet.com.		Company overview	164
Wolters Kluwer Corporate & Financial Services (WKCFS; Minneapolis, MN), a division of Wolters Kluwer, has agreed to acquire GulfPak Corp. (Jackson, MS), a provider of automated lending and account origination solutions to U.S. financial organizations.			70