Axel Springer, publisher of Bild, is reinvesting German newspaper profits in online classified-ad services.

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PIN, which belongs to the publisher Axel Springer, said it would dismiss 1, 000 workers.

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Axel Springer's Welt Kompakt, for instance, is a condensed version of Die Welt, not an exact copy.

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Axel Springer publishes foreign language editions of Forbes in Poland and Russia.

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Forbes Russia is a joint venture with Axel Springer .

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Dad has tangled web of European TV and film programming, production and licensing firms, including SAT1, DSF (sports TV), Premier (pay TV), and 40% of Axel Springer Verlag, one of Europe's largest newspaper chains.

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Google Inc. (GOOG) and other news aggregators may continue to show short news items on their Internet sites without being required to pay, German lawmakers decided in a parliamentary vote today in a blow to publishers including Axel Springer AG (SPR) and Bertelsmann SE.

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