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News Digital invest in travel search engine Bezurk.com

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

According to B&T, News Digital, one of the leading online player in Australia, has made strong investment in Asia by investing in the Singapore-based travel search engine Bezurk.com. Bezurk.com is a travel meta-search engine providing information to 80 major travel websites and also provides price conmparisons on travel products. The price paid by News Digital has not been revealed by Bezurk.com is valued at more than $22 M.

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Australia: Top 10 Parent Companies

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Australia: Top 10 Parent Companies  
Month of December 2007
Home Panel
Property   Name
  Unique
  Audience
  (000)
Reach
  %
Time  Per
Person
Microsoft 8,910 79.71 02:24:18
Google 8,908 79.70 01:01:57
News Corp. Online 5,140 45.99 01:03:55
eBay 4,921 44.02 01:41:43
Telstra 4,723 42.26 00:22:39
Yahoo! 4,681 41.88 00:55:58
Australian Federal
  Government
3,807 34.06 00:42:45
Apple Computer 3,438 30.76 01:10:26
Fairfax Digital Australia
  and New Zealand
2,910 26.04 00:34:32
Wikimedia Foundation 2,678 23.96 00:16:19

Source: http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/press.jsp?section=pr_netv&nav=3