Condé Nast is the latest publisher to claim a boom in digital magazine sales from the launch of Apple’s Newsstand two weeks: the publisher of Glamour, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Wired says that new subscription sales, per week, across all nine digital editions, was up 268 percent, with…

Hachette Filipacchi UK’s digital strategy director Anna Jones is being made Hearst Magazines UK’s acting COO. In her place, former iVillage/NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal GM Rebecca Miskin now becomes Hearst’s new digital strategy director.

New device opportunities should allow Hearst to drive its digital revenue model away from advertising reliance, and toward 50/50 equivalence with readers’ payments, the publisher’s president, David Carey, told the paidContent Advertising conference.

—Upstream: Simon Negus is the new COO for mobile marketing company Upstream. He joins from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), where he had been a partner and general manager.

Hearst Corp. is nearing completion of its $921 million (€640 million) acquisition of French media conglomerate Lagardère SCA. It’s finalized the purchase of Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., which gives the publisher control of nearly 100 titles in 14 countries outside of France. On top of the magazines, the deal adds…

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: the EU opens GSM frequencies for 4G services; Sony* Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) reports earnings; Mobile Content Venture details launch plans for its mobile TV service in 32 U.S. markets; the first white iPhone 4 finally “on sale”; Nokia (NYSE:…

All talk these days is about Google/Android and Apple/iOS, but here’s a nifty infographic that underscores just how fragmented the picture really is for which mobile phone browsers dominate.

French media conglomerate Lagardère says it’s received a binding offer from Hearst of €651 ($892.52/£560.45) million for its non-French magazine business (release). The portfolio includes 102 titles in 15 countries, including the U.S. and UK, plus a license to go on publishing Elle on multiple platforms in those countries. The…

It seems publishers are increasingly keen to start learning more about their audiences. Hearst’s UK arm NatMag is adding a research and insight director, Aida Muirhead, from fashion retailer ASOS.com.

It looks like Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. hasn’t finished cutting its costs, as parent Lagardère Active is considering selling off most of the division or finding a partner who can help share the burden. Recently, HFMUS, the publisher of Elle, Woman’s Day and Car and Driver, has seen a number…

Updated: In a doubleheader announcement meant to move the needle on Rupert Murdoch’s ambitious paid content plans, News Corp has acquired the Skiff e-reading platform from the Hearst startup and is joining forces with Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz through a stake in their start-up Journalism Online. The Skiff acquisition…

AOL (NYSE: AOL) is tapping Hearst Digital‘s digital services and development director Julian Downing to be its director of its AOL Media division in Europe - the latest step in staffing up its content arm in the continent. Downing will report to David Shing, who was upped to head European…

The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business—so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw says that half the FT’s print customers are newsstand buyers, and the company needs to offer an similar a la carte option online as well. Grimshaw, in an interview with…

Even if there wasn’t a recession this year, 2009 was always going to be a crunch year for B2B and consumer magazine publishers, given the pull of online media and social networking on their readers. So how have they fared? Awkwardly, publishers’ balance sheets show us…

Women’s cable programmer Lifetime Networks knows its audience and that audience likes casual gaming, which explains the latest news from the new home of Project Runway: UK-based King.com will be the exclusive provider of co-branded skill games for MyLifetime.com. King.com claims to be the world’s largest provider of skill games,…

The acquisition of our parent company, ContentNext Media, is a major change for us, but it also marks a turning point for the UK company to which we now belong. ContentNext is Guardian News & Media‘s first acquisition outside the UK and its first of this sort at all; we…

Well, you can’t blame them for trying…Hearst‘s UK division Natmags has axed its digital-only magazine Jellyfish after a five-month trial, citing distribution challenges. The celebrity/fashion title had been sent out via email, but spam filters and corporate firewalls blocked a portion of its distribution, according to the Guardian. First aimed…