Daily Mail and General : DMGT Weekly, 17-21 March

DMGT confirms the sale of OilCareers, MailOnline and Metro.co.uk retain their web traffic positions and Zoopla UK house price data is widely quoted.

Dice Holdings is announcing the acquisition of leading European oil and gas recruitment site, OilCareers. The business is being acquired from DMGT in a deal worth $26m. Michael Durney, President and CEO, Dice Holdings, says the deal will help the company to exploit its considerable potential for growth in the field of energy.

Genscape, dmg information's leading global provider of energy information, reports a slowing of flows of oil on the Mid-Valley pipeline belonging to Sunoco, to approximately 163,000 barrels per day from a figure of 229,000 bpd. Levels dropped after the pipe suffered a leak of between 7,000 and 10,000 gallons of crude oil into the Oak Glen Nature Preserve, according to the estimates of the local environmental protection agency. Genscape notes that maximum flow on the line is 280,000 bpd.

Genscape analyst Chris DaCosta says renewables have been "wreaking havoc on prices for the past two weeks." His comments come as spot electricity prices decline in California due to solar and wind generation forecast changes, with prices expected to reach their lowest daily average figure since June 2012. DaCosta says prices have been consistently low in the middle of the day when generation from wind and solar has been highest.

Read on bloomberg.com

EDR, dmg information's leading property risk information provider, has struck an agreement with First American Professional Real Estate Services to offer Commercial Evaluation Reports through EDR's Lender Portal. Commercial Evaluation Reports are used by lenders as a cost-effective alternative to conventional appraisals on certain real estate transactions. The EDR Lender Portal is a web-based application that streamlines workflow associated appraisal procurement, environmental screening, flood investigations, site inspections, and other due diligence performed by lenders on their commercial real estate deals. The Portal also allows lenders to infuse their policies into the workflow to automate compliance. EDR plans to roll the new evaluation service out to clients in early April.

Read on edrnet.com

The US standard for Phase I environmental site assessments was revised in late 2013, followed by the endorsement of the country's highest environmental agency, the US EPA. The standard was controversial because the agency did not revoke its endorsement of the previous standard for the purposes of CERCLA liability protection. The agency has been closely watching the industry's transition over to E 1527-13 and in late 2013, EDR Insight delivered the first-ever stats on whether environmental due diligence consultants had adopted the new protocol. Just a few weeks after EPA recognised E 1527-13, 61% of consultants had adopted the new standard for all of its Phase I ESAs, indicating that the transition was smooth.

Read on edrnet.com

EDR has completed a market research effort into the first adopters of its mobile app. The new app was created to streamline the process by which engineers and consultants collect field photos and notes. Specifically created for the property due diligence industry, the EDR mobile app is changing the way data is collected in the field. Survey respondents referred to the experience as "clean", "user friendly", "simple", "convenient", and even "fun". This launch reinforces EDR's move beyond industry leading data, to include workflow and technology tools that will transform the property due diligence market.

Read on edrnet.com

Naviance, a digital college and career readiness platform from dmg information's educations solution company, Hobsons, is to be put into service by the Bethlehem Area School District. District Superintendent, Joseph Roy, says he has seen the platform at work in his previous district, where the admissions trend scattergram was particularly popular. Teachers and staff in the district will be taught how to use the site by on-site trainers provided by the company. Naviance will help students to plan their college and career paths and help with marketing programs to students.

Read on lehighvalleylive.com

Hobsons analyst Emily Kissane explains in a new op-ed piece how changes to the SAT will affect students. Kissane explains how the content of the exam will likely change, both in terms of source material and in what will be expected from students. Five tips are provided on topics such preparing for the correct exam in the knowledge that the change takes place from spring 2016 and practicing solving problems without the use of a calculator.

Read on inthecapital.streetwise.co

Richard Groom, Product Development Director at geospatial and digital mapping specialist, Landmark Information Group, discusses the latest research from CIFAS. While it identified a decrease in fraudulent cases during 2013 and how increased investment in fraud detection and prevention technology has been a key factor in this, fraud continues to remain at a higher rate than 'pre-recessionary times'.

Read on landmark-uk.blogspot.co.uk

Landmark Information Group has released a new test sample dataset of Bluesky's National Tree Map (NTM) on to its Promap Labs portal to provide users with an insight into the location and size of trees on a given plot. Commenting on the launch, Carole Ankers, Product Development Director at Landmark, said, "We believe it will prove extremely popular for professionals working on site selection or within planning applications for new developments. I encourage as many people as possible to access Promap Labs to test the NTM and provide us with feedback on how this would work for your organisation."

Read on landmark-uk.blogspot.co.uk

Landmark Information Group is the first company of its type to incorporate groundwater flood risk data into a wide range of its risk assessment reports for residential and commercial properties. Launched in partnership with environmental consultant ESI, the new data aims to facilitate more effective land use planning and faster sales transactions.

Read on landmark-uk.blogspot.co.uk

Sarosh Khalid, Marketing Apprentice at Landmark Information Group, shares her account of London's great Apprentice Debate as part of National Apprenticeship Week 2014. Opened by Matthew Hancock, Minister for Skills and Enterprise, over 200 apprentices and educators gathered at County Hall on London's South Bank where young people and members of the Industry Apprentice Council debated the future of apprenticeships and tackled the challenges faced by vocational education.

Read on landmark-uk.blogspot.co.uk

The Hotel Show Saudi Arabia, from global events manager dmg events, will be held on 22-24 April in Jeddah and comes at a moment when the country's hotel industry is "experiencing extraordinary growth," according to Event Director Christine Davidson. The event will provide coverage for every aspect of investment in hotels, with more than 150 exhibitors confirmed to be in attendance, drawn from more than 20 countries. Davidson says the event is a "must-attend" for those in the sector looking to build a presence in Saudi Arabia at a moment when the government is supporting the tourism sector with a number of initiatives.

Read on saudigazette.com

The world's largest digital marketing event, ad:tech from dmg events, says representatives from StraightCast Media and Soleil Moon Frye will be among the keynote speakers at the event in San Francisco this year. Soleil Moon Frye, founder of Moonfrye, will discuss multiplatform strategy, while StraightCast co-founders Ryan Nece and Jeb Terry will explore 'Talent Generated Content' and new advertising opportunities. Marketing Director for ad:tech, Kimberly Dunn, says the organisation is "thrilled with the calibre and variety of keynote speakers" for the event, as represented by these latest additions.

Read on sys-con.com

This year's ad:tech is offering the net:work social mobile tool to attendees to give them a chance to begin the networking process before the conference opens. The tool facilitates outreach to groups of high value prior to the event, opening the channels for messaging and allowing meetings to be set up. Those listed on the service can be found by potential clients, share their information and pursue their networking goals.

Read on allvoices.com

ADIPEC and the Big 5 are cited by Brazilian enterprise Imbil as a focus for the company as it looks to sell in the Middle East. The company provides technology to the oil and gas, sanitation and air conditioning industries. According to Imbil Export supervisor, Sandro Odagima, the company may be looking to the Big 5 as its second fair in the region, in addition to making its regular appearances at ADIPEC, with the latter already a preferred location "because it is a segmented fair."

Read on www2anba.com.br

MailOnline and Metro.co.uk retained their positions as the world's largest English-language and the UK's fastest-growing newspaper websites respectively, according to February's Audit Bureau Circulation (ABC) figures. While daily traffic to MailOnline dipped slightly month on month to 11.2m global unique browsers, traffic to Metro.co.uk grew 385% year on year to 1.3m unique browsers a day.

Read on pressgazette.co.uk

Daily deals site, Wowcher, is offering a number of deals that can help students save money as they buy presents for Mother's Day on 30 March. The National Student says the site has "loads of offers" suitable for students, with money off on mum and daughter spa days, flowers, wine and silk scarves, and chocolate gift boxes, among other things.

Read on thenationalstudent.com

Myra Butterworth, Editor of Zoopla, is providing advice to those considering renovating their home, a popular process for those looking to revive their property and "achieve the finish that you desire." Zoopla's website provides lists of properties in need of work, with statistics available on the local area from within the page of each individual property of interest. Butterworth says auctions sell many renovation projects, but warns that buyers must be aware of the need for preparation beforehand, including arranging finance and undertaking surveys prior to the sale.

Read on southwestbusiness.co.uk

Zoopla reports stamp duty has removed £260m from the value of homes in the UK since April 2012, a result of increase in stamp duty from 1% to 3% at the threshold figure of £250,000. Zoopla's figures are published as the business joins with third parties including the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Institute of Directors, as well as some MPs, to call for a replacement system that is graduated in a manner similar to that applied to income tax.

Zoopla calculates the average price of a home in Newbury to be £342,000. The town offers high quality living and modest house prices.

Zoopla reports that the average renter in London is likely to be more than £82,400 better off after seven years than someone who purchases an equivalent property with a deposit of 10%. The company also says it typically takes 18 years for the home buyer to be better off than the renter.

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