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• Business 2.0 slated to lose $10 million

  Published: August 24, 2007, 8:01 am

  Tags: Business 2 0, Fast Company, Inc Magazine

  York Post writes Friday that Business 2.0 magazine is slated to lose $10 million this year, and Time Inc. is still trying to sell it. One of the interested buyers is the owner of Inc. and Fast Company magazines. Kelly wrote, “But while it had a worthy name, it couldn’t transform the magazine into a moneymaker. “Its circulation

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• Decision on Business 2.0 next week?

  Published: August 24, 2007, 11:23 am

  Tags: Fortune, Business 2 0

  a decision on the future of Business 2.0 magazine could come from Time Inc. next week. — a statement that the company denies. Fell and Mickey wrote, “What will become of Business 2.0? Time Inc. apparently is considering a number of options, including folding it into sister publication Fortune, converting it into an online-only

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• The downside in business magazines

  Published: August 28, 2007, 3:04 pm

  Tags: Businessweek, Conde Nast Portfolio, Business 2 0, Fast Company

  what’s ailing the business magazine category, why Inc. and Fast Company's gains may be fleeting, and his early thoughts on Portfolio. Here are some excerpts: There’s been a lot of speculation lately over the future of Business 2.0 magazine. Will it survive? What was its biggest downfall? Even at a 40 percent dropoff in the

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• Bad Moms: Michelle Slatalla's Daughter Hates Her So Much Right Now

  Published: August 30, 2007, 1:20 pm

  Tags: Bad Moms, But Her Hubbie Josh Quittner Still Has Job Running Business 2 0 For Now, Michelle Slatalla, The New York Times, The New York Times The Worst Blog In The World

  The Times' "families use computers now" beat reporter, Facebook-loving helicopter mom Michelle Slatalla, is having another rough week. One of her little ones is leaving the nest!MY 18-year-old...

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• Mansueto leading bidder for struggling Business 2.0 magazine

  Published: August 31, 2007, 7:46 am

  Tags: Business 2 0, Fast Company, Inc Magazine

  bidder to acquire struggling business magazine Business 2.0 from Time Inc. Kelly wrote, “It is not clear exactly what Mansueto would do with the magazine, although the deal would include a subscriber list of nearly 600,000 names, the brand and Web properties. It is also not clear what would happen to longtime editor Josh Quittner and his

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• Economist copies BusinessWeek cover headline

  Published: September 2, 2007, 5:57 pm

  Tags: Business 2 0, The Economist

  cover headline as the one Business Week employed with its Google cover story back in April, did the Economist do it on purpose? A: No. Because nobody at the Economist reads Business Week or any other business magazine. B: Yes. Because the Economist wants to make it clear that nobody at the Economist reads Business Week or any other business

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• Business 2.0 will close after October issue

  Published: September 4, 2007, 6:55 pm

  Tags: Information, Business 2 0, New York Times

  to report that employees of Business 2.0 magazine were told today that the monthly publication will close next week, after they finish the October issue. “As we wrote in July, executives at Time Inc. were weighing whether to shutter the seven-year old business/technology publication as the magazine's ad pages precipitously dropped this

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• Media Life readers: Rupert buys WSJ for his biz channel, not his ego

  Published: September 4, 2007, 6:32 pm

  Tags: Fox Business Network, Wall Street Journal, Business 2 0, Dow Jones Amp Co

  was not surprising was that Business 2.0 is the magazine most often named as being in trouble. More than 11 percent of its readers said the Time Inc. publication was “at risk.” The next closest was Radar at 7 percent. As for News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street

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• Business 2.0 editor Quittner, others will be reassigned to Fortune

  Published: September 4, 2007, 8:20 pm

  Tags: Job Changes, Business 2 0, New York Times

  the decade-long life of the Business 2.0 brand. The first magazine to be called Business 2.0, a biweekly, debuted in 1998 and was published by The Future Network, a British media company. AOL Time Warner bought the magazine in 2001 for a reported $68 million and combined its operations with its own fledgling business magazine, eCompany Now.

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• Departures: 'Business 2.0' Finally Dead

  Published: September 4, 2007, 8:42 pm

  Tags: Business 2 0, Departures, Facebook, First Jane Now This Oh, Josh Quittner, Michelle Slatalla, Time Inc, We Condole You

  Despite the protests of literally twos of thousands of Facebook members, Time Inc. has kicked Business 2.0 to the curb. According to an unusually emotive blog post in the Times and its dry print...

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• Miss Manners Hates Your BlackBerry

  Published: September 5, 2007, 1:02 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Business 2 0, Gucci, Heatherette, Qwest, Time Warner, Valentino

  after Time Warner bought Business 2.0 for $68 million, the company is shuttering the mag. Staffers will be transferred to Fortune to help out with tech coverage. Duh, we're on 10.0 by now. [NYT] 226; After failing to come to terms with Apple last week, NBC has decided to sell its TV shows through the new Amazon digital download store.

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• Business 2.0 editor Quittner talks about changes due to closing

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:26 pm

  Tags: Job Changes, Fortune, Business 2 0

  journalists from Business 2.0 who will be joining Fortune? They include Phil Elmer-Dewitt, Paul Sloan, Michael Copeland and others. 2. Business 2.0 had a loyal following of readers. What do you say to them? We’re hoping to take what we learned here and bring it along to Fortune. Time Inc. has indicated it still believes in the kind of

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• Business 2.0 circulation offer goes to help Fortune?

  Published: September 6, 2007, 10:43 am

  Tags: Fortune, Business 2 0

  subscription offer for Business 2.0, which was shuttered earlier this week, was actually designed to pump up circulation for sister publication Fortune. Morris wrote, “Grumpy Editor notes a big two-for-one mailout a month ago sought to drum up renewals to Business 2.0, which described itself as ‘the playbook for a new generation

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• The last of the Internet magazines

  Published: September 11, 2007, 4:20 pm

  Tags: Commentary, Coverage, Business 2 0

  Tuesday that the demise of Business 2.0 magazine means that all of the titles that came of age during the Internet/tech bubble of the late 1990s are now defunct. Schwartz wrote, “Business 2.0 joins a long list of publications whose fortunes rose and fell with dot-com boom and bust. These include Red Herring (which continues to exist

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• A free pen, but no magazine

  Published: September 12, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: Information, Commentary, Business 2 0

  that the recently terminated Business 2.0 magazine is still being marketed, and new “subscribers” who sign up for the publication will receive a free pen. Morris wrote, “Being received this week, notes Grumpy Editor, is a Business 2.0 offer with a reminder, ‘Final chance to get this guaranteed low annual renewal

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