Conde Nast
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool
| 1:00PM 10/13/2011
Why wait for the postman to deliver your next copy of Glamour or Golf Digest when you can print it out at home? This is the half-baked idea that Hewlett-Packard and magazine mogul Conde Nast are proposing this week. The two companies are teaming up to offer printer-fueled content from Conde Nast magazines including Allure, Wired, and Epicurious.
| 7:30PM 1/03/2011
Google is considering a plan to expand its Android newsstand -- and heat rivalry with Apple's iTunes -- by charging publishers a lower price to sell news to Android users than the 30% fee that Apple typically charges to sell apps on iTunes. Will that be enough to attract more news?
| 12:35PM 9/27/2010
Conde Nast launched an iPad version of The New Yorker today. The editors of the venerable magazine say they are delighted -- if a little bewildered -- by the new technology.
| 5:45PM 8/11/2010
Steve Jobs' dictate that apps for Apple's iPad and iPhone contain no pornography or nudity affects plenty of major magazines, including Playboy and Cosmopolitan. How are they dealing with it?
| 11:20AM 8/06/2010
Magazines have been generating all kinds of hype for their iPad editions, but if you read what customers who bought the digital versions are saying, it's not very nice.
| 6:00AM 8/03/2010
While the first wave of magazines made available on the iPad consisted largely of male-oriented titles like Popular Mechanics and Sports Illustrated, women's publications are starting to follow -- led by Glamour, whose Apple app goes live today.
| 12:05PM 7/23/2010
A management overhaul at Conde Nast is meant to help its iconic magazines -- including Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker -- flourish in this century as they did in the last.
| 5:15PM 6/30/2010
Conde Nast was ruthless with its print magazine titles in 2009, shuttering many niche favorites like Domino. Fans were thrilled this week when content from Domino began reappearing under the Brides magazine masthead on the company's Brides.com website.
| 12:30PM 6/28/2010
David Carey had the inside track to becoming Conde Nast's next CEO, but instead he's been named president of archrival Hearst Magazines. Among his hits at Conde Nast are The New Yorker, Wired and Golf Digest. Portfolio didn't fare so well.
| 3:25PM 6/22/2010
Conde Nast is using 'Gourmet,' the food magazine it shut down last fall, as a low-risk guinea pig for digital development.