Polar Mobile—the Canadian startup that develops apps for big-name publishers like CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Conde Nast, Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX), Shanghai Daily, Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) and the WSJ—today announced two steps up in its growth: it has picked up an additional $6 million in funding and has launched…

Bernstein Research has cut its growth forecasts for professional publishing companies, saying that the sector will suffer the same post-recession “hangover” it did following the great 2001 crash.

More developments on the theme of printed newspapers going digital first. The Guardian has announced that the MediaGuardian, plus two other weekly supplements on education and society, will cease to be a standalone printed supplements after next week. The sections will be cut down in size and subsequently run in…

B2B publisher Centaur is still in the acquisitions game, adding another specialist professional community to its line-up.

What do you do when the world turns upside-down? Find a flat surface and face in a different direction. David Levin, CEO of the specialist publisher of titles like Information Week, EE Times, Music Week and Farmers’ Guardian - talks with paidContent:UK about how United Business Media is re-inventing its…

The Lawyer and NMA publisher Centaur says paid content revenue, a new category comprising its circulation revenue and online subscriptions, rose 14 percent to £6.6 million in the second half of 2010.

Variety and Farmers Weekly publisher Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) says its Reed Business Information earned 19 percent less money through 2010, as it off-loaded many magazines to reshape its portfolio.

Emap CEO David Gilbertson describes his mantra for business-to-business publishers, in the Financial Times... “The way I’d describe [the shift] is moving from the provision of information to providing intelligence. “Companies like ourselves need to suggest what decision should arise, rather than just record that something occurred.”

Data Explorers is a financial data aggregator which tracks stock loan information to provide insight on short selling and long-side ownership. Is the ever digitising face of publishing an opportunity or a threat to business-to-business (B2B) publishing firms? B2B publishers are reportedly still suffering from weak subscription renewal rates, whilst…

This is a great idea… Haymarket Media Group is launching a new web title, Windpower Intelligence, that’s powered by outside niche content aggregator StrategyEye.

Ewan MacLeod’s Mobile Industry Review is amongst the trade’s better respected sources for insider mobile news and analysis. But when founder MacLeod tried taking the ad-supported site paid last year, he was surprised to get an entirely negative response from readers in the industry.

German media conglomerate Axel Springer is selling off its 75 percent stakes in business news site WallStreet:Online and stock broker WallStreet:Online Capital, plus its 33.3 percent share of business certificate site ZertifikateJournal, to their managers and shareholders. It says it wants to focus on its other financial portal, Finanzen.net, which…

Bloomberg’s new-look “Bloomberg Businessweek” tasked WPP’s JWT with its global relaunch campaign. The knock-out idea: reminding folk that it’s… a business weekly... This print ad is the opening gambit in a 12-week cross-platform European marketing campaign that began when the relaunched mag hit UK newsstands on Monday. The big relaunch…

Last week, David Levin, the CEO of B2B publisher United Business Media (LSE: UBM), said that print now only represents “a very thin sliver” of its profit (just five percent), despite still publishing 109 paper magazines. Digital investments, meanwhile, are continuing to grow—even if this hasn’t yet translated into a…

Revenues and profits are down for United Business Media (LSE: UBM), but the company says its future outlook is stable as it focusses more on emerging markets and diversifying its business even further away from its print legacy. It also benefited from a better-than-expected bill from the UK tax man.…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q408	Net Inc. vs Q408
United Business Media	Release		4.4%	N/A

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

B2B could be approaching calmer waters, and digital may be steering the boat: today Informa, publisher of maritime bible Lloyd’s List, reported a decline in revenues and operating profits as it continues to weather the economy. But digital is figuring strongly: 72 percent of its publishing revenues now come from…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q408	Net Inc. vs Q408
Informa	Release		4.4%	11%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Business slow in Europe? Some are buying into the East to hedge their bets: Ten Alps today announced that it is buying 10 B2B publications in Asia from the gradually-dismantling RBI. Separately, it is also buying Interface Media, a Singapore-based B2B sales and online search specialist. Ten Alps, the TV…

Online TV business Ten Alps is reaping the rewards from building a diverse multimedia B2B and factual media model. Its profits rose 40 percent from last year to £1.4 million in the six months to 30 September. The company says it makes more than a third of its revenue from…

United Business Media (LSE: UBM) is moving further into the online PR sector with a $10 million (£6.17 million) acquisition of New Jersey-based Virtual Press Office. The deal comprises a $6.5 million up front payment, with the rest payable over the next three years depending on performance.