May 16 2008
Yellow Pages News NYT
New York Times
- Payouts and Payoffs - Do some art; do no harm.
- ‘The Coffee Was Lousy. The Wait Was Long.’ - Yelp, a San Francisco Internet company, has become a leader in a fast-growing category: Web sites that let people spout off about anything from shops to animal shelters.
- This Time the Wheeling and Dealing Wasn’t in the Men’s Room -
When Verizon executives and bankers discussed the spinoff of the Yellow Pages unit recently, everyone at the table was a woman. - Lets Say Your Toilet Backs Up. How Do You Find a Good Plumber? -
Local search sites are trying to capture word-of-mouth wisdom, catalog it and disseminate it online. - Alliances Form to Pursue Verizon Unit - More than half a dozen private equity firms have begun forming consortiums to consider bidding for Verizons yellow pages unit.
- Tracking Heirs and Deadbeats, Starting With 10 (Often Dusty) Digits -
A lawyer who has made a career of tracking down missing persons has acquired 350 telephone books, dating from 1914 through the 80's. - Entrepreneur Lets Fingers Do Walking - The Bell phone companies' dominance in the yellow pages industry is being challeneged by the rapid growth of independent publishers, led by Joseph Walsh's Yellow Book USA.
- Yellow Pages Are the Stage for a Debate Over Judaism - History, it is often said, is written by the victors. Less often said is that it is written in the Verizon Yellow Pages for Camden County, N.J.
- Donnelley to Acquire Dex Media for $4.2 Billion - By Bloomberg News.
- An IPod for Your Thoughts: A Web Site Offers Incentives to Reviewers -
JudysBook.com, which seeks consumers' online opinions, is offering free iPods to those who submit 50 reviews of local businesses. So far, the chief executive says, the tactic is working.