Articles from Business Publisher (February 14, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Contemporary Long Term Care" magazine acquired by HCPro.			198
"Corp!" magazine, formerly owned by Chris Meyers and Oliver Moore, has been sold to Corp! Publishing LLC (Warren, MI).			64
"Journal of Trading" from Institutional Investor.			174
2005 M&A activity increases for ten publishing/info/training categories.			242
Access Intelligence acquires chemical industry pricing info service.			189
ALM Research, a unit of ALM (New York), formerly American Lawyer Media, has launched "ALM Research Newsline," a new bi-monthly e-newsletter that is designed to update law firm and legal market researchers on data, market studies, rankings and other services available from the group, as well as research-related industry news.			62
Also, IDG World Expo (Framingham, MA) has signed an agreement with Informa Alliances (London), an events division of Informa Group (London), that allows Informa to produce several IDG World Expo events in the UK, including Syndicate, Wireless Sensing Solutions, and Open Source Business Conference.			57
American Scientific Publishers (Stevenson Ranch, CA) has launched "Journal of Scanning Probe Microscopy," a new quarterly journal that covers one of the driving forces behind the rapid development of nanoscience.			80
Business publisher stock quotes.			152
CMP Media (Manhasset, NY) will cease publication of two of its monthly technology magazines following the March issues.			84
CNET Networks (San Francisco, CA) has sold its "Computer Shopper" magazine and related assets to SX2 Media Labs (Stamford, CT), a new company formed in 2005 with the mission of becoming a major provider of technology enthusiast information.			76
Co-owners Outsourcing Today LLC (Roseland, NJ) and Unicomm LLC (Milford, CT) have sold the HRO World Conference & Exposition and the HRO World Europe Conference & Exposition to LRP Publications (Palm Beach Garden, FL).			117
CQ Press acquires U.S. & Canadian legal directories.			203
Dow Jones & Co. (New York) relaunched Barron's Online, which previously had been included as part of a Wall Street Online subscription, as a stand-alone subscription product earlier this month.		Brief Article	71
Eduventures (Boston, MA), a provider of intelligence, including consulting services, executive events and membership programs, for the global education market, has entered into a partnership with affiliates of Knowledge Investment Partners, an investment firm specializing in the education and information services sectors, and The Invus Group (New York), a private equity firm.			81
Financial Media Group acquires WallStreet Direct, Inc.			151
Health, Economics, Policy and Law" from Cambridge Univ. Press.		Brief Article	200
Hollinger sale to Glacier Ventures includes trade publishing assets.			313
IDG's "Network World" (Southborough, MA), through its Network World Live events division, has launched the IT Roadmap Conference and Expo, a quarterly event series that will hold its premier event in Boston on March 20.			90
Interactive Data Corp. acquires Quote.com from Lycos.			184
Jones & Bartlett acquires Association Publishing Assets.			142
Jupitermedia's (Darien, CT) Juliterimages unit continues its expansion with the acquisition of all the shares of Stock Image S.A.S. (Paris) for approximately $11.1 million in cash.			49
Later this year, Springer will launch "Intelligent Service Robotics," a quarterly title that is designed to "foster the dissemination of new discoveries and novel technologies that advance the application of robotics for assisting humans" in daily life and in hazardous environments.			80
New company to launch mag for podcasting industry in May.			199
Penton Media (Norwalk, CT) has launched SearchFinance.com, a vertical search engine and directory serving CFOs and the corporate finance market.		Directory	85
Reed Business Information's (New York) "Construction Equipment" (Oak Brook, IL) has acquired Spec Check U.S. LLC (Mundelein, IL), a provider of construction and agricultural equipment specification comparisons for construction equipment manufacturers, distributors and end-users.			67
Reed Business seeks buyer for New Products division.		Brief Article	219
Several of Wolters Kluwer's (New York) U.S.-based legal and compliance businesses are being aligned under the brand name Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.			69
Springer Science & Business (New York) has begun the publication of "Central European Journal of Biology," a quarterly title carries research results in all biology fields.		Brief Article	58
Trade and professional magazines and journals, start-up or announced, second half, 2005 (A through I).			591
United Communications Group sells CodeCorrect.		Brief Article	164
VNU continues its talks with a private equity consortium over a proposed buy-out of the company and its Supervisory and Executive Boards expect to provide their view on the non-binding offer by the end of February.			119
Ziff Davis Media (New York) has launched SmartCompany.com, an enterprise technology web site designed to provide entrepreneurs, owners and technology professionals at small businesses with information about new technology solutions.			55