Competition

Friday 31 August 2007

Sun slashes price in London and south-east

The Sun is cutting its price from 35 pence to 20 pence in London and the south-east beginning Monday.

The move is aimed at keeping sales of News International’s red-top above 3 million copies per day. However, it may hit circulation revenue hard, because London and the country's south-east make up for about 20 percent of sales.

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Friday 17 August 2007

eBay imports Gumtree to the U.S.

eBay has added yet another of its free classifieds brands to the United States, just weeks after launching the free classifieds site Kijiji.

Gumtree, a top online classifieds platform in Australia, the United Kingdom, Poland and South Africa, launched this week in three U.S. cities: Boston, Chicago and New York. Together with Kijiji and eBay's 25 percent stake in Craigslist, eBay will be behind two and a fourth classifieds sites in the United States, putting it in a better position to take over the free online classifieds market, should it go the way of the online auction.

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Monday 6 August 2007

Portugal gets sixth free daily

The publishing group Controlinveste will launch a new free daily, Global Notícias in September.

Global Notícias will have 24 pages and a circulation of 150,000, available first in Lisbon, by home delivery and in public places, according to Newspaper Innovation.

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Free afternoon Hebrew daily to premier this week

A new free afternoon Hebrew daily newspaper will premiere this week in Israel.

Metro will attempt to carve out a place for itself in the Hebrew journalism world dominated by paid morning newspapers like Yediot, Aharonot, Ma'ariv and Haaretz. The newspaper will go to press at noon and distribute papers between 2 and 5 p.m.

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