“Innovation should be market driven, not technology driven,” says Thomas Drensek, General Manager Axel Springer Print Management in Germany, in discussing one of the lessons he learned when he and Bild Editor-in-Chief Kai Diekmann made an extended study of start-ups in Silicon Valley during a stay in California.

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While some companies come to World Publishing Expo to launch their latest products and services, Lineup Systems CEO Michael Mendoza says he prefers to take a different approach and focus on his company's recent customer cases.

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With an estimated 198 million active adblock users around the world – and who knows where that figure stands when we wake tomorrow – it's difficult to try to dehype the hype surrounding the ad blocking buzz in the industry. That's exactly what Johnny Ryan, Head of Ecosystem of PageFair, did today at a packed Media Port session on the topic during #WPE15 (see his presentation below).

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In 2013, Hannover, Germany-based MADSACK Mediengruppe opened a new newsroom with a new business model. Called RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) [Editorial Network Germany], it produces content for other publishers' newspapers as well as the group's own – including print-ready pages in three sizes.

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