Articles from Business Publisher (June 17, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Instrument Design & Technology" from Webcom.			241
Advertising revenue for business publications in 21 market categories showed a growth of 0.32% for the first three months of 2006 compared to the same period last year, according to figures supplied by American Business Media's (ABM; New York) Business Information Network (BIN).			151
Blackwell acquires Le Jacq Communications.			200
Brill Academic Publishers launches "International Community Law Review".			170
Business publisher stock quotes.			155
By the end of its buy-out period ending June 9, Valcon Acqusitions, a company controlled by an equity group consisting of the six investment firms that is acquiring the assets of VNU (Amsterdam), received tender offers for 98.87% of all outstanding share capital of VNU.			182
CMP's Light Reading acquires cable digital news.			231
Dolan Media & law firm form partnership in new company.			272
Fairchild seeks buyer for three trade titles.			224
HCPro Inc. (Marblehead, MA) has continued its expansion into the medical coding, reimbursement, compliance, Medicare and revenue cycle markets by acquiring HRAI Coding Specialists (Richmond, VA).			77
Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA) has acquired all of Achievement Technologies Inc.'s (Newton, MA) research-based instructional products for $18.5 million in cash.		Brief article	62
IEEE (New York) has launched "IEEE Transactions of Information Forensics and Security," a new quarterly magazine whose aim is to provide a forum for archival research on the contributions and the mathematics behind information forensics, information security, surveillance, and systems applications.			86
IHS completes two acquisitions; launches aviation newsletter.			242
Incisive Media purchases Asian b2b publisher.			281
Inderscience Publishers (London) will begin the publication of "International Journal of Intellectual Property Management" (IJIPM) with an issue later this year.			137
Jupitermedia Corp. (New York) has launched "Open Networks Today," (opennetworkstoday.com), a new site that aggregates and offers networking news from a range of media for IT professionals, including IT management, senior-level IT staff and industry consultants.			131
Landmark Communications, Inc. (Norfolk, VA), a media company with national and international interests in newspapers, broadcasting, cable programming and electronic publishing, has acquired BusinessBroker.net (Atlanta, GA), a marketplace for businesses for sale on the Internet.			83
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Philadelphia, PA) has begun the publication of "Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal," a quarterly title designed to meet the information needs of advanced practice clinicians, clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, health care professionals, and clinical and academic educators in emergency nursing.			69
Medical Management Institute sold to Contexo Media.			206
New company launches business magazine for women.			240
New Mealey reports cover benzene litigation and bankruptcy changes.			296
Penton Media's (Cleveland, OH) "Convenience Store Decisions" magazine has launched "Ask the Experts," (csdecisions.com/AskTheExperts), a single-sponsor e-media product that provides answers to current industry questions written by convenience store professionals.			81
Private equity firm Bridgepoint Capital (Paris/London) has acquired Groupe Moniteur (Paris), a French provider of information and services to the construction and local authorities sectors, from investment firm Sagard (Paris) for an undisclosed sum.			98
Private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (New York) has purchased a "significant" investment in Market Strategies, Inc. (Livonia, MI), a custom and syndicated market research firm.			67
Reed Exhibitions (London) has acquired a series of security events from International Business Events Ltd. (IBE; London).		Brief article	72
Reuters (London) has acquired Application Networks (London/Palo Alto, CA), a provider of risk management software including the cross-asset derivatives trading platform, JRisk, for $41 million in cash.			86
Routledge (New York), a unit of Taylor & Francis, has launched "Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology," a quarterly journal devoted to the broad range of technological developments and related issues which enhance the rehabilitation process.			82
Royal Media Group (New York), a producer of information products for the financial services and security technology industries, has launched BankNet360.com, a new online banking news site targeted to bankers and financial services professionals.			94
Sage Publications purchases Hodder Arnold titles and journals from Prime National Publishing.			341
Simmons-Boardman acquires Davison Publishing.			147
TechTarget (Needham, MA) has formed a partnership with Australian b2b publisher Westwick-Farrow Publishing (Sydney) to produce web sites for the Australian/New Zealand IT markets beginning in September.			101
Thomson Financial acquires AFX news from Agence France-Presse.			214