Business Insider Australia to close in reported ‘global strategic decision’

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Business Insider Australia to close in reported ‘global strategic decision’

As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning, Business Insider Australia is set to close, following the decision from the parent company to wind up the local publishing licence, currently with Nine.

After an 11-year “exclusive representative” deal with Nine, and formerly Allure Media (Fairfax), the licensing deal with the publisher, Insider Inc will change in March.

A Nine spokesperson told Mumbrella that Pedestrian Group, which currently houses Business Insider Australia, and Insider are “pursuing a commercial arrangement” that would see Nine continue to commercialise its inventory in the local market and “across Insider more broadly”.

“We look forward to working with our valued partners at Insider Inc in this new capacity.”

Mumbrella understands that the result of the “global-led decision”, it comes at the cost of three local editorial staff.

Nine said that it is working to find roles within Pedestrian Group “and the wider Nine group”

Wireless Demand Up, Wireline ‘Flattish’

Not surprisingly, wireless is up. Also not surprising are wireline results.

The top U.S. telco and cableco firms are reporting growth in wireless customers, but business wireline, voice and video tell another story.

Charter (Spectrum) on Friday reported that its number of SMB mobile lines increased from 55,000 in the fourth quarter of 2020 to 116,000 last quarter. Comcast earlier this week reported that it added a net 312,000 wireless customers last quarter. That’s the highest quarterly result for the cableco since the launch of its Xfinity Mobile wireless service. Comcast expanded the Verizon-powered MVNO offering to SMBs last summer.

“Our mobile is key for us. In and of itself [it] is a great growth opportunity, but it’s also very important to broadband. We talked a lot about broadband churn benefits. That continues, but we want to bring mobile value to every segment in every offer,” said David Watson, president

Spice company that called Republicans racist begs for gift card purchases after losing customers

Judicial Crisis Network President Carrie Severino discusses ‘The View’ claiming Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas doesn’t represent the Black community.

A Wisconsin-based spice company that made headlines earlier this month when its CEO sent an email to customers accusing Republicans of racism is now asking people to buy gift cards after hemorrhaging tens of thousands of customers.

Earlier this month, Penzeys Spices CEO Bill Penzey renamed the extended Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend to be “Republicans are racist weekend” in a newsletter to customers. In the letter, he said his aim was to anger Republicans in honor of the late civil rights icon.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building. On March 25, 1965, in Montgomery, Alabama. (Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

“Remember how Republicans, going against a mountain

Amazon Business launches ‘Punch-in’ procurement tool

For the billions of dollars in annual transactions on Amazon Business, many of them are processed when buyers use punch-out software to connect to the marketplace from their company’s procurement and spend management software.

Now, businesses can give their buyers the option to go straight to Amazon Business to make a purchase and “punch in” to their company’s procure-to-pay (P2P) spend management software to maintain records of their purchasing activity.

Amazon launched yesterday Amazon Business Punch-in, an online tool designed to let companies manage their buyers’ spending even when they don’t start a purchase through their e-procurement software system. Amazon introduced the Punch-in product yesterday with procurement technology vendor Compleat Software. Amazon says it is already adding “new partners” yet to be named.

“This new feature will simplify the buying process for many of our customers,” says Todd Heimes, global director of Amazon Business. “For those companies

HUMOR: Get swabbed, not robbed with help of Better Business Bureau | Lifestyles

If you got a COVID-19 test in the bay of an abandoned, burned-out Jiffy Lube from a lab technician named Skeeter who asked way too many personal questions, you may have been scammed.

The Better Business Bureau asked me, a semi-trustworthy regional media figure, to warn you, the faithful newspaper readership, about a new con: phony websites and suspicious in-person testing sites used to collect personal and insurance information.

Here’s how it works, according to the Better Business Bureau email I failed to delete:

Several websites appear after an online search for a COVID-19 testing site in your area, and a testing clinic affiliated with a local pharmacy or a pop-up run by a local group is selected.

In one version of this scam, you arrive at the testing site and are asked to complete a form with personal information, your driver’s license and medical insurance cards are photographed. Then,