Squeezed by digital media, book printer to close

Squeezed by digital media, Secuaucus printer to close, lay off 105 NorthJersey.com BY HUGH R. MORLEY A 40-year-old Secaucus company that says it prints 1.5 million books a day will soon close and lay off 105 employees, the latest victim of the shift towards digital media that is transforming the publishing industry. ...

Utah digital media event set for Sandy Salt Lake Tribune Grow Utah Ventures has set its 2011 Pushbutton Digital Media Summit, an event focused on technology and creativity, for Oct. 13-15. The event will be presented at the South Towne Expo Center and Jordan Commons in Sandy. Game designers, mobile app ...

Green Home Planned For B.C. Digital Media EarthTechling The new Centre for Digital Media, slated for the 18-acre GNWC (formerly occupied by the Finning International Airport), will incorporate the latest in green design, according to the Vancouver Sun. Sustainable features include a green roof, solar panels ...

Ventures in Digital Media eyes up further start-ups after $1m purchase StartupSmart By Oliver Milman Tech start-up Ventures in Digital Media has indicated it is looking for further early-stage ventures to buy after acquiring SEO agency Amplify. VIDM paid $1 million in shares and cash for Amplify, which was founded in 2003. ...

Media Makers Converge in Vancouver mediacaster Lionsgate, Google, YouTube, Al Jazeera and Amazon will be among the conventional and digital media organizations at Merging Media 2011, exploring the future of cross-media entertainment. Merging Media intends to be the place where media professionals ...

Telemundo names Emilio Romano new president Reuters He will also oversee the News and Sports divisions, Telemundo International, Telemundo's Digital Media group, and the network's sales and marketing units, as well as mun2, the lifestyle network for young bicultural Latinos. ...

BBC overhauls homepage Telegraph.co.uk By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor The new version of the bbc.co.uk goes live today. However, it is still in beta and is not the final product, as the Corporation seeks to get feedback from users about how effective the changes are before deploying ...

Digital conference returns to Lincoln in 2012 The Lincolnite The social media gathering, which debuted at The Showroom earlier this month, is mounting a second conference in February of 2012. A total of 83 delegates attended the first Linc Up Live conference, held on Friday, September 9, which saw speakers from ...

Rich Dad Company Powers Video Delivery With Unicorn Media MarketWatch (press release) Unicorn Media, Inc. is a digital media management provider that helps companies deliver media to any device, any time, anywhere, while providing real-time analytics on any platform. Unicorn's core services include Unicorn ONCE(TM), which allows content ...

First speakers announced for Asia's premier digital conference Media Update WAN-IFRA is gathering media experts on the latest innovations in tablets, social media, online and mobile for Digital Media Asia 2011, the region's premier digital event to be held from 23 to 25 November in Hong Kong. The event, which will present case ...

BA ad 'underlines power of social media' Telegraph.co.uk By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor Only a few days after advertising legend Sir Martin Sorrell publicly questioned the value of brands advertising on social networks such as Facebook, British Airways has taken the decision to launch its new advert ...

Corel(R) Launches New 3D Animation Software: Corel(R) MotionStudio 3D(TM) MarketWatch (press release) Today Corel announced the release of Corel(R) MotionStudio 3D(TM), the latest addition to the company's Digital Media product line. A complete 3D titling and animation application, MotionStudio 3D makes it easy for home video enthusiasts, ...

Telestream Flip4Mac WMV 2.4 Optimized for OS X Lion MarketWatch (press release) 21, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Telestream®, the leading provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, today announced a significant release for its popular Flip4Mac® WMV Components. Now used by over 10 million people, Flip4Mac WMV allows ...

Golf Digest and Norlinks Annnounce Golf Digest Canada Canada NewsWire (press release) 21, 2011 /CNW/ - Golf Digest has entered into a license agreement with Norlinks Digital Media for the online launch of Golf Digest Canada. As purely an online venture, Golf Digest Canada will be available on the web and on digital platforms including ...

Recognizing firms tapping social media's potential Livemint Run by Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, ArtistAloud.com began “webcerts” or online concerts that allowed people to watch, listen, download and buy un-released music from independent artists. Indian rock band Parikrama's webcert, ...

Gaming majors get new high-end computers on campus Hilltop Views The new machines are meant for the university's gaming majors and for digital media management majors, but anyone can use them. "Alienware is basically just a Windows 7 machine," said Assistant Professor of Digital Media Management Gregg Perry. ...

CIX Announces Partnership with the Government of Canada to Help Digital and ... DigitalJournal.com (press release) ... through its Canadian Trade Commissioner Service office in San Francisco-Silicon Valley, to announce a prestigious development opportunity for Canadian companies working in Information and Communication Technology and Digital Media. ...

AMI, Google starts project to keep African media alive Bizcommunity.com At the same time, he says, advertisers are also realising that digital media are "more effective" in reaching targeted consumers. "They are therefore pulling out of traditional media and switching to online and mobile media. This is seriously hurting ...

Pharma Companies Lay Off Sales Reps and Use More Digital Tools to Market to ... DARKDaily.com - Laboratory News But in a surprise development, many of the nation's largest pharma companies are dramatically downsizing their sales forces and opting to promote their products through digital media. This is an important new trend which has consequences for those ...

'Tag Games Expands For the Future!' Gamasutra Building on a fifth consecutive year of growth, the mobile gaming and app specialist Tag Games has today announced its intention to expand to over 50 employees at its Scottish headquarters after moving into a new office space in Dundee's Digital Media ...

Digital to drive Bookseller kids conference The Bookseller The morning session will show how families are using digital media in the home and how children are engaging with digital brands, with speakers from Decipher Media and Dubit Research. The latter will explore new opportunities for storytelling including ...

John Lavine says he's stepping down as dean next year Chicago Reader Said Lavine at the time, "We need to develop a more profound understanding of audiences and consumers, of what they value and of how to present journalism and the new digital media to them." He went on, "We also need to have a far deeper understanding ...

Kantar Video Appoints Leigh Newsome as Senior Vice President, Technology MarketWatch (press release) With nearly 20 years of experience innovating products in the digital media industry, Mr. Newsome has been at the forefront of multimedia technology. Early on in his career, he spent 7 years at Avid's Digidesign. Newsome was then co-founder and CTO at ...

American Business Media and the Custom Content Council Form Strategic Alliance MarketWatch (press release) "We are excited about this new alliance, which enables ABM members to more effectively gain a deep understanding of custom content in the context of the wide range of offerings that ABM focuses on, including digital media, print, business information, ...

World Teleport Association... Moving On Up... SatNews Publishers Adrian Ballintine, CEO of Newsat in Australia, Tomaz Lovsin, Managing Director of STN in Slovenia, and Bill Tillson, President and COO of Encompass Digital Media, headquartered in the US, were named to fill new seats created by an expansion of the ...

Krux Digital Raises $11 Million in Funding, Led by Accel Partners and IDG Ventures MarketWatch (press release) "The digital media industry has been crying out for the technology and expertise to effectively compete in the data game, and Krux has responded to this call," stated IDG Ventures' Alex Rosen. "Given our own media heritage, the IDG Ventures team is ...

Digital media prone to content influx, Australian ... - TelcoNews.com By David Goldstein Digital media prone to content influx, Australian inquiry told. time September 20th, 2011 by author David Goldstein. Digital media should be regulated to ensure Australian content levels do not fall, an inquiry into the future communications ... TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP...

Who Controls the Message? Producing and Distributing Media ... Drawing on the Open Society Foundations' research into the worldwide impact of new and digital media, this forum will discuss the role that these evolving forms of media can play in the development and strengthening of democratic societies. Open Society Foundations: Europe

Glam Media Buys Ning as Shortcut to Social - Digital Media Wire By Chris Marlowe Online publisher and ad network Glam Media is buying seminal social networking platform Ning in a deal reportedly valued at $150 million. The acquisition will enable Glam to offer its network of publishers a selection of new social tools, ... Digital Media Wire | connecting...

Digital Media & Learning Competition Aims to Recognize and ... 9.16.11 | The MacArthur Foundation, HASTAC, and Mozilla on Thursday announced the launch of the $2 million Digital Media and Learning Competition ... spotlight.macfound.org/.../digital-media-learning-competition-...

Digital media asset management systems aren't “projects” that end ... Digital media asset management systems aren't “projects” that end at implementation. Monday, September 12, 2011 by Jake Athey. Digital Asset Management is ... blog.widen.com/.../digital-media-asset-management-systems-ar...

Neustar Unveils New Technology for UK Digital Media Providers to ... Neustar announces it has completed the candidate release of the UltraViolet Digital Rights Locker and Coordinator technology as part of the UltraViolet ... www.neustar.biz/.../neustar-unveils-new-technology-for-uk-di...