PCWorld.com – Google Removing Agence France Presse From Google News
I thought Google would at least drag their feet on this one, but they rolled over immediately.
AGF held the gun to their own head on this lawsuit.
Day: March 22, 2005
FT.com adding a whopping 443 paid subscribers per month
PaidContent.org "And a factoid on FT.com: The Financial Times has 76,000 subscribers to its site, and that total is growing at roughly a 7 percent annual rate, according to the company."
Wow. All of 443 new paid users per month? Why bother? No wonder the FT is consigned to the giveaway bin at the Delta Shuttle.
IGN being shopped for $600-$800mm
IGN – host of the vgame sites Gamespy, IGN and TeamXbox is being shopped by Shearson-Lehmann for $600 to $800 according to the WSJ.
5.3 million monthly uniques to Gamespy in a market where the $9.9 bn annual spend beats the movies. The Journal only cites Gamespy’s traffic, which would value the deal at $133 per unique. This continues to be the season of Internet Search and Content M&A.