Private equity firm Apax told its investors earlier this year it has written down the value of its investment in B2B magazine publisher Emap to nothing, according to Telegraph.co.uk. Apax, in partnership with Guardian Media Group, paid £1.3 billion for the company last year. Emap made a £2 million loss…

In theory, business-to-business publishers theoretically better placed to ride out a recession, with business models less reliant on cyclical ad market and loyal subscription-based audiences. But no publisher is immune to this downturn or the long-term pressures on print revenues. Three major business media players are feeling the pinch in…

—Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Messaging By Orange: Orange and Nokia are expanding their partnership to include a push e-mail product, unfortunately named “Nokia Messaging by Orange”. It lets Orange customers aggregate up to 10 personal e-mail accounts, and will launch first in the UK, followed by France and Spain. —Bauer Media…

Whatever your views on how to keep the magazine business afloat, with UK sales shrinking by 95 million last year according to the PPA, it’s pretty clear something must be done. Sarah Clegg, MD of John Menzies Digital, thinks she has a solution - the digital replica editions her company…

—Emap Inform: Conor Dignam, digital director of B2B publisher Emap Inform, has become editor of the company’s Screen International film industry magazine—and the company doesn’t expect to fill his old role. CEO Simon Middleboe says the role was created to see out the implementation of the Webvision content management system…

One sure sign that a sector is facing bad times is when executive bonuses come under the axe and for the media biz that time is now. ITV (LSE: ITV), Emap and Channel 4 are all either slashing bonuses, board-level pay or both and although the simple answer to why…

—October ABCe: For fans of the monthly urinating contest that is ABCe’s online news stats, the latest results are much the same as usual: everybody won, but some more than others. All seven main publishers added unique users in US election month, but Mail Online claimed third place from Times…

Magazine publisher Emap is to scrap online subscription charging for websites in its B2B division Emap Inform, home of Health Service Journal and Retail Week, following the appointment of Claudia Arney as the digital MD of the divison (via BrandRepublic). Emap CEO executive David Gilbertson said two thirds of Inform…

Bauer Media, the reincarnated Emap (LSE: EMA) consumer division has taken on T-Mobile International biz dev EVP Tony Kypreos to be its group-wide digital MD, NMA reports. Bauer’s digital leadership has been a merrygoround since the Emap deal - digital business director Rebekah Billingsley left for Current TV in April…

—Sky: BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has moved quickly to replace outgoing mobile head Tim Satchell, today appointing biz dev director Emma Lloyd in his place. Before Sky, Lloyd was MD of BT’s (NYSE: BT) Movio mobile TV trial and founded mobile data venture Livetime. She will now take charge of Sky’s…

Bauer Media is to start buying in video to run across its network of magazine websites. It’s hired Blinkx’s content acquisition director Marco Nadotti to a newly created position of video acquisition and syndication director. So far, Bauer says it serves two million videos each month across sites including Heatworld…

New Virgin Radio owner Absolute Radio will use Bauer Performance digital director Chris Lawson to fill the hole created by the loss of Andy Gumbridge from its equivalent position last week, MediaWeek says. Gumbridge left in a directorial restructure (see our earlier post), with the digital team being merged with…

—BSkyB: BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is adding Times Media digital commercial director Giles Ivey, who joined the newspaper group in October, to head portal sales, with existing director Paul Wright now heading only third-party sales in what is a division of his current role. Sky, of course, operates 365 Media and…

Two months after leaving the Informa helm, new Emap (LSE: EMA) CEO David Gilbertson is restructuring the B2B company following its acquisition by GMG/Apax in December. The former Emap Communications (the consumer magazines and radio units were sold separately to Bauer) now has four new divisions… —Magazines: Emap Inform, led…

Leaders of the Apax/Guardian Media Group alliance confirmed their belief in B2B publishing’s ability to weather an economic storm, at Magazines 2008, the Periodical Publishers Association’s annual conference, this morning. “All my instincts say there is a better chance of building the business in a time of turmoil,” said Stephen…

Al Gore-backed progressive video network Current has appointed Bauer Consumer Media digital business director Rebekah Billingsley as its first UK new media director. She leaves the former Emap (LSE: EMA), which sold to the German publisher in December, after 18 months, during which she launched Heatworld and Closer Online. Prior…

—FHM.com/MoMedia: Mobile and web video production house MoMedia, in which Endemol owns a stake, has signed a deal with Bauer (formerly Emap) men’s mag site FHM.com to supply Kamikaze Videos, a “funniest-home-videos-meets-Jackass” series, and Paramount Comedy’s The World Stands Up. It’s “the beginning of a new business relationship with Bauer”,…

Apax and Guardian Media Group have poached Informa CEO David Gilbertson to the B2B publishing division of Emap (LSE: EMA) they bought for £1.2 billion before Christmas. In a statement from the so-called Eden Bidco, he said he wanted to grow the company through both organic and acquisition growth, but…

Former Emap (LSE: EMA) CEO Tom Moloney has joined healthcare information publisher Dr Foster Intelligence (DFI) in the same position. DFI is a JV with the NHS, powering its NHS Choices site. DFI is supposedly used by 89 percent of primary care trusts and provides health info to clinicians and…