GLG News by Online Advertising Experts (North America)

1.       Driven by political expenditure, Hispanic Ad spending continues to show strong growth.     2.       Spanish speaking areas of the US are expected to continue fuel advertising growth over the coming years

You cut and cut and before you know it there's no product to sell. Unlike a factory or other asset, there's no correlation between reducing cost and overhead and making a profit.

With unique users up 94% and total page views up only 45%, it's clear that wsj.com has found more ways to introduce non-subscribers to the frustrations of its site

Massive debt + no real plan + continued business decline = big trouble

1.    Real D, Dolby and NuVision battle it out over ease of use, technology and business model      2.    The number of 3-D Cinema installations is tiny compared to the total number of screens worldwide… there is an extensive market waiting to be...

HP is a long time solid provider of computer hardware, and EDS (founded the information technology out-sourcing industry more than 45 years ago) is a longtime provider of system services. The Plan of Merger, dated as of May 13, 2008, by and among EDS, Hewlett-Packard Company and Hawk Merger...

Some things will be cloud based, MSFT, GOOG and AMZN are all betting on it.  for middle market companies having computing in the cloud may make sense. But it comes with risk

With 45 percent of contingent sales identified as "short sales," or sales in which the lender will be required to accept less than the principal balance owed, we can't expect investor demand to grow. Investors currently have other more liquid and stable securities to place their bets, and...

Newspapers are failing on both fronts.  They are in a severe print advertising recession.  And online sales are slowing -- up  a mere 7% vs. industry-wide growth of 24%.  Falling revenues make reducing debt at Tribune more difficult and put dividends at risk at McClatchy, Gatehouse...

Amid falling ad revenues, is Sam Zell destroying the LA Times (and other Tribune papers) by cutting news pages, making newsroom decisions based on quantity not quality of reporting, facilitating the exits of his best staff and dumbing down his papers beyond recognition?