Articles from Business Publisher (April 16, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Bank advisor" from Wiesner Media.			162
"Creative screenwriting" magazine sold.			224
"Security products" from Global Sources.			167
"The Business Publisher" Web site, located at jkpubl.com, is undergoing a redesign and should be operational by the end of spring.			66
AdFarm (Guelph, ON/Kansas City, MO), a marketing communications company for the agriculture sector, has acquired the consulting division of Issues Ink (Winnipeg, AB).			87
Advertising pages for 22 B2B magazine categories fell 3.1% in January compared to last year, going from 77,133 ad pages in January 2006 to 74,741 ad pages this year.			152
Agri-Pulse Comm. buys Webster Comm. Corp.			181
Business publisher stock quotes.			145
Computer, software & arts magazines closed.			438
Dow Jones acquires European Financial Info. Co.			168
Education, energy & data analysis titles from Springer.			291
Exhibition industry grows nearly 5% in 2006.			290
In a partnership with Freescale Semiconductor (Austin, TX), CMP Technology (San Francisco, CA) has launched Mechatropolis.com, a new online site designed for mechanical and electronics engineers.			87
John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ) will begin the preliminary online publication of "Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology" with an issue in June.			129
Later this year, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Philadelphia, PA) and the American Medical Association will launch "Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness," a new journal that will emphasize public health preparedness and disaster response for all health care and public health professionals globally.			88
Major trade and professional publication, online and related business information acquisitions, first quarter 2007 (by buyer).			678
Media and information industry first quarter M&A activity.			289
MediMedia obtains majority interest in Complete Healthcare Comm.			190
Reed Exhibitions expands in Brazil.			141
The Nielsen Company (New York/Haarlem, the Neth.) 2006 revenue of $4.17 billion was an increase of 2.8% over 2005 revenue of $4.06 billion including a $90 million decrease in revenues associated with its preliminary purchase price allocation.			107
The Public Library of Science (PLoS; San Francisco, CA) will launch "Neglected Tropical Diseases" with a Fall issue.			88
The Riverside Company (New York), a private equity fund, has acquired Keen Skills, Inc. (Clearwater, FL), a provider of self-paced e-learning courses for IT professionals preparing for certification exams.			81
Wasserstein & Co. seeks buyer for ALM.			326
Ziff Davis Media reported 2006 revenues of $181 million, down 3.5% from $187.6 million in 2005.			89