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CEO’s Staff Memo: Lonely Planet Digital Will Locate With BBCWW
[Detail of how Lonely Planet is moving its digital team out of Melbourne] Hi everyone, Today we are making some changes to our organisatio……
Read MoreLonely Planet Layoffs Move Digital Ops Out Of Australia
Lonely Planet is making around 15 percent of its staff redundant, including relocating its online operations from Melbourne to London, in a……
Read MoreBBCWW Seeking An Online Partner For Lonely Planet
BBC Worldwide may now own all 100 percent of Lonely Planet, but the travel guide's ultimate flight path is not yet necessarily set out.…
Read MoreBBCWW To Buy Out Rest Of Lonely Planet
BBC Worldwide is paying A$67.2m (£42.1m) to acquire the 25% of travel guide publisher Lonely Planet that it does not already own.…
Read MoreLonely Planet Drops App Prices To Get Noticed At Christmas
When BBC Worldwide's Lonely Planet temporarily dropped prices for some of its mobile travel guides during this summer's Icelandic volcano er……
Read MoreLonely Planet’s Digital Director Brough Leaving
Lonely Planet's Melbourne-based digital director Kelly Brough is leaving after about 18 months in the role. Her exit was announced to staff……
Read MoreLonely Planet Tries Augmented Reality In Search For ‘Relevant Ubiquity’
Travel publisher Lonely Planet will on Wednesday embed augmented reality features in to new, Android versions of its mobile city guide apps,……
Read MoreVideo: Lonely Planet CEO Matt Goldberg on Online Revenues, Mobile and Competition
Late last month, I met with Lonely Planet CEO Matt Goldberg, and did a short video interview with him. It has been exactly a year since Gold……
Read More4 Ways for Augmented Reality to Get Past the Hype
With 197 million augmented reality-capable smartphones set to be in the global market by 2012, the building blocks are falling into place for people to merge digital information with their view of the physical world. But there's still a long way to go.…
Read MoreiPhone, Web Offer Lonely Planet A New Life
It is fashionable for media companies to paint themselves as victims of an increasingly Google-dominated planet. Desperate publishers are happy to collude…
Read MoreUpdated: BBC Worldwide Starting To Use Lonely Planet On Homepage
Sixteen months after buying the travel guide publisher, BBC Worldwide is starting to thread Lonely Planet in to the heart of its web effort.……
Read MoreIndustry Moves: Lonely Planet Takes New CEO Goldberg From Dow Jones Digital
BBC Worldwide's Lonely Planet is hiring Dow Jones' digital strategy and operations SVP Matthew Goldberg away to be its new CEO, replacing ou……
Read MoreLonely Planet To Share Ad Revenue With Amateur Travel Bloggers
Best known for its professional travel writing, BBC Worldwide's Lonely Planet will also start running reviews from amateur authors - and pay……
Read MoreLonely Planet To Share Ad Revenue With Amateur Travel Bloggers
Best known for its professional travel writing, BBC Worldwide's Lonely Planet plans to republish online reviews penned by amateur travel blo……
Read MoreFake Sex and Real Drugs: NTV Station Today
In this crumbling economy, maybe a working knowledge of how to manufacture cocaine isn’t such a bad thing. From Lonely Planet comes…
Read MoreJoost, Time Out Take BBC Worldwide Concerns To OFT
To commercial newspapers' gripes the BBC is "the 300lb gorilla on our garden", add a collection of concerns on web TV and travel guides. The……
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