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Trading Post closes down print versions! Ron Walker saves Fairfax?

By on September 30, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, Research, Technology, What's New

When Telstra paid AUD $636 million for he Trading Post in 2004 many questioned yet another wasted acquisition for the Telco giant (the list is long). Today those questions have been vindicated as Telstra has now shut down the 22 print versions of the Trading Post to concentrate on the online edition. Another hit will [...]

ABC, Fairfax, News Ltd, PBL, Ron Walker, Telstra, Trading Post

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Dumb and Dumber Real Estate Awards 2008

By on December 19, 2008 in Newspapers, Soapbox

Well what a year it has been, with just about every major company in the real estate and classifieds market vying for entry into this years awards. So how do you make our dumb and dumber awards? Well quite simply, you make a schoolboy mistake, try to cover something up or worse still knowingly do [...]

ABC, Channel 10, Channel 7, Channel 9, Domain, Dumb, Dumb and Dumber, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, James Packer, Kevin Rudd, Microsoft, MyHome, PBL, REA, REA Group, Real Estate Institutes, Safari, SBS, Yellow Pages

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MyHome lives again!

By on June 12, 2008 in Portals

Perhaps we were all a little hasty with the demise of MyHome. It was announced today that Shane Dale has taken over MyHome and is now the sole proprietor. MyHome now will become a free listing website, although whether this is short term or long term I am not sure. It seems that Mr Dale [...]

James Packer, MyHome, PBL, Shane Dale

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Dumb and Dumber Awards 2007

By on December 19, 2007 in Radio, Soapbox, Television

Every year since 2004 I have been adding my own dumb and dumber awards. Usually is it a hard slog getting so many out the door, but why was 2007 different? Anyway sit back and have a giggle at some of the dumbest moments in real estate and technology for 2007. PBL & MICROSOFT 1. [...]

Domain, Fairfax, Microsoft, MyHome, Nine, PBL, Peter Ricci, REA, Realsearch, Sensis, Seven, Telstra, Ten, Yellow Pages

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PBL Buys in on German Real Estate Classifieds Portal

By on August 16, 2007 in Portals

With all of the owes of MyHome you would think it would make PBL a little scared of online investments. Not so, a Consortium consisting of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited and Macquarie Bank today announced that it will acquire 66.2% of Immobilien Scout. This gives the consortium 66.2% for a mere 357 million Euros (about [...]

Immobilien, PBL

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The Big Issue

By on April 1, 2007 in Newspapers, Soapbox

Over the past few months we have seen a number of portals released. At my last count in my Firefox bookmarks there are now 26 real estate sites that would like to be known as National Portals. However I can only count three as true National Portals backed by companies that can get these portals [...]

MSN, PBL

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The Times they are a Changin!

By on March 8, 2007 in Soapbox

Fairfax has done it again! I can remember last year when all I could write about was all the inventive things REA Australia was doing in the Internet space and how Domain was just sitting back taking hit after hit after hit. Yesterday I received a tip off about a new site that Fairfax had [...]

Brisbane Times, PBL

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PBL to launch an online real estate portal!

By on September 13, 2006 in Soapbox, Television

News has been rife this last week that PBL would be launching an online Real Estate Portal to rival realestate.com.au and domain.com.au . I received an email from ‘Insider Dave’ late last week and to be honest I should have taken it a littl more seriously. I do know that PBL was interested in real [...]

MyHome, PBL

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PBL and Fairfax ….News and Channel 10

By on August 25, 2005 in Media, Newspapers, Television

With New Media ownership laws coming into effect soon, we will see a big change in the news landscape. Here are some of my predictions…….. 1. PBL will buy Fairfax (not the other way around) and will then hopefully do something about Domain.com.au and some other sites. Recently PBL sold their shares in Realestate.com.au and [...]

Fairfax, News Ltd, PBL

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PBL Your Move?

By on August 14, 2005 in Portals

With PBL (think Kerry Packer) selling their shares in realestate.com.au one wonders their next move. That is if they still want to be involved in Internet real estate classifieds. I think they do as they have shareholdings in Seek (jobs) and their Carpoint (cars) and all they need is real estate to participate in all [...]

MyHome, PBL

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Serious Internet Business!

By on October 7, 2004 in Agent Websites

The Internet is big business and Internet revenues are underpinning the growth of some of the largest media players in our countries.

PBL

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