Finance
Before the clock strikes midnight, let me take a moment to contemplate how we are now exactly one month into the year of the castrated bull - and how there's rarely been a year more aptly named than this. If you're not following my logic, I&
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Bligh me, Metro International has just announced that it's closing down its Spanish operation with immediate effect! Actually, to be precise, the announcement ticked into my mail account three hours ago, but I only happended to check it now. Is there something I have missed? I must admit
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Icelandic freesheet merger called off as the country's media battle debt inflation. Now, this is not news to those of you who read Journalisten.no, but I got a bit too busy at the end of last year and ran out of time to do a follow up
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Skype-investor Morten Lund's bankruptcy, following the demise of Nyhedsavisen, is hardly news to the Scandinavians among you, but Techcrunch has an interesting, very sympathetic write-up of the story. The comments below the story are also worth reading: they make for sharp contrast to the animosity he's
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Metro International has just announced it's planning to relocate key operations from Fleet Street to Stockholm by the end of this year, implicitly blaming the move on the financial downturn. "During Metro's growth period particularly in Europe we have benefited from being located in a
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Baugur-backed Frettabladid is to merge with Posthusid Arvakri, the company responsible for Morgunbladid, it emerged this weekend. "Under the deal, Frettabladid (see Wikipedia for proper Icelandic spelling) will become the freely distributed sister paper of Morgunbladid, and 24 Stundir (the current holder of that title) will be merged into
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This week's news that Bonnier's free daily City would go non-daily from next month on, and reduce its publishing days to Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursday, had many industry experts scratching their heads - not to mention competitors Metro International and Schibsted, now on the same team
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What do Baugur, Morten Lund and Draper Fisher Jurvetson's Tim Draper have in common? Well, they're hardly risk averse, which is why Nyhedsavisen's new investor seems to be the perfect fit for the freesheet a great number of Danish media insiders think is ambitious
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After weeks of speculations of whether the end was near for Denmark's most read newspaper Nyhedsavisen, it emerged yesterday that American venture capital Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) had come to the rescue. Even though Morten Lund, the majority owner and previous early stage investor in Skype, said in
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Nyhedsavisen failed to hand in its annual accounts on deadline yesterday, which could spell the end for the infamous freesheet, according to Berlingske. Danish media have reported for some time that the freesheet that once forced the costly Danish freesheet war is struggling to find new investors to help foot
Acquisitions
"Did the Norwegians celebrate 17 May by closing the Swedish fool's project Punkt SE? Well, at least the announcement of the closure came on the first working day after Norway's national day, even though the decision had been on the table for a few weeks,