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- Reverse Cell Phone Look Up - Become Your Own Detective - Zimbio
- Yellow Pages to buy rival Canpages for $225M - canada.com
- AT&T asks to close book on directories - Chattanooga Times Free Press
| Reverse Cell Phone Look Up - Become Your Own Detective - Zimbio Posted: 07 Apr 2010 01:29 PM PDT
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| Yellow Pages to buy rival Canpages for $225M - canada.com Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:53 PM PDT Yellow Media Inc., a subsidiary of Yellow Pages Income Fund, agreed to acquire competitor Canpages for $225-million in cash and notes Tuesday, in a bid to corner Canada's online local search space and improve its Internet presence. Terms of the deal with Canadian Phone Directories Holdings Inc., owned by an investor group led by private equity firm HM Capital Partners, includes $75-million in cash and $150-million in promissory notes. The notes can be exchanged for common shares of Yellow Media Inc. beginning the first quarter of 2011 following the income fund's conversion to a corporation. As announced last week, the fund will be renamed Yellow Media Inc. once it converts in November. "[The price] is a little high, but the impact won't be that material," said an analyst who declined to be identified. "The private equity had to have an exit strategy. It's not a huge home run." Credit rating agencies Standard & Poor's and DBRS both found the deal to be neutral to the risk profile of Yellow Pages. "The acquisition should improve Yellow Media's overall competitiveness, particularly in the company's continuing efforts to evolve its online local search opportunity -- Canpages' online directories revenue proportion is slightly better," S&P said in a note. The analyst said the deal makes sense as Canpages was becoming a threat. "From a financial standpoint it's effectively neutral to our valuation," he said. "But I'd argue it's more positive from a sentiment standpoint, as many investors have been concerned with Canpages as a competitor." Yellow Pages last week launched a new ad campaign and logo, distancing itself from its print-based roots. "Print is stable at best. Any growth will come from online," the analyst said. Canpages, headquartered in Vancouver, operates a local search web site that gets about 3.5 million unique visitors a month. The Canadian company generates about $110-million in revenue annually. Last August, Canpages bought Gigpark, a web site that lets users share information on local businesses and services. Olivier Vincent, Canpages chief executive, considered the social networking potential a weapon against Yellow Pages. "I think [the brand] Yellow Pages is a liability more than anything else. It's associated with a print experience," Mr. Vincent told the Financial Post at the time. "In the past year we've got 70% of the traffic they do. David is almost as big as Goliath." Yellow Pages will continue publishing Canpages print directories after the deal closes. Meanwhile, Yellow Pages also announced its plans to sell YPG Directories LLC to U.S.-based Ziplocal LP. Terms of the deal for the U.S. directory business, publisher of the Your Community Phone Book series of independent directories in the Mid-Atlantic and southeast U.S. markets, were not disclosed. "We have found a great platform and partner for them to grow within the U.S. directory industry," Marc Tellier, chief executive with Yellow Pages Group, the local search segment of Yellow Pages, said in a release. Following closing, Ziplocal will have access to more than 300 U.S. markets. Yellow Pages' U.S. operations were "not a game-changer" and the company will live and die on its Canadian operations, the analyst said. Financial Post erlam@nationalpost.com Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| AT&T asks to close book on directories - Chattanooga Times Free Press Posted: 03 Apr 2010 08:57 PM PDT A state board's decision later this month could make phone books harder to come by in several Georgia calling areas, including Dalton. In March, AT&T asked the Georgia Public Service Commission if the company could stop sending out phone books in 18 areas in Georgia. The commission plans to act on the proposal on April 20, spokesman Bill Edge said Friday. Under the proposed rule, phone service providers would not have to send out phone books to calling areas of 50,000 or more residents. Citing the growth in Internet directory usage and cell phone numbers, which are not listed, AT&T asked to distribute the books only to customers who request them. While Dalton's population is under the limit at about 33,000, the city's phone book covers Whitfield and Murray counties as well. Those counties have 93,000 and 40,000 residents, respectively, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Despite a population of 64,000 people, Catoosa County would not qualify under the rule because its calling area is split between phone companies. But even if PSC rules would allow Local Insight Media to drop the Dalton phone book, spokeswoman Pat Nichols said her company will keep producing and distributing it. "Our small to mid-town use is our bread and butter," she said. BE HEARD To comment on the proposed Public Service Commission rule, call 800-282-5813. The Colorado-based company, which produces 900 different books each year, said research actually showed a 12 percent increase in paper directory use from the beginning of 2009 to the end of the year. She wouldn't discuss the cost of producing the book, but Lionel Austin of Trenton Telephone Co. said he can understand why AT&T and others might want to stop publishing them. When his company asked AT&T about buying Chattanooga directories to distribute along with the Trenton books, they were told the books cost about $50 each. "They're pretty expensive to print," he said. Trenton doesn't have a choice because it falls below the population limit, he said. Public Safety Commission member Bobby Baker said AT&T asked to set the threshold at 25,000 residents, but commissioners thought it was important to keep the rule in the larger population areas. "There are a lot of ways to address the issue," he said. The commission is seeking public comment, and so far most of the comments have come along the lines Mr. Baker said he expected: Younger people and those in urban areas say they don't want the phone books, while older people and those in rural areas say they do. He also said the companies would cut costs by printing fewer directories, but consumers wouldn't see that savings in their bills. "It's going to their bottom line, but you're seeing a reduction in service," Mr. Baker said. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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