RICHARD-FREUDENSTEIN

Recasting the Webb

Friday 19 December 2008

Emerging from a non-compete period with digital service company BlueFreeway, serial digital entrepreneur Richard Webb has re-surfaced with four new projects which will be progressively launched from January 2009.

Webb re-emerges on digital scene

Friday 12 December 2008

The founder and former CEO of digital marketing network BlueFreeway Richard Webb has resurfaced as a board member of Australian digital audience measurement company, Effective Measure.

Destra in administration

Thursday 13 November 2008

Prime Media Group have placed digital media company destra in voluntary administration on Thursday following the collapse of salvage bids to sell destra’s profitable assets including Magna Pacific.It is understood that key destra financial backer the St George bank appointed Korda Mentha’s David

Ad agencies mislead market on digital

Monday 10 November 2008

Australian businesses plan to invest more than AUD$17.9 billion dollars on digital services in 2009, a survey by the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA), IBM and Hyro has claimed. AIMIA’s first annual AIMIA Digital Services Index reported that revenue generated through

True size of digital revealed

Friday 31 October 2008

The results of Australia's first Digital Services Index (DSI), a comprehensive overview of how much is being invested and spent online, will be announced on Wednesday in Sydney.

Friendster grabs Google exec

Friday 08 August 2008

Google has lost the head of its South East Asian operations Richard Kimber to social networking up-start Friendster.

Media dominates consumers lives

Friday 25 July 2008

People now spend more than half of their daily lives consuming media of one form or another, a new survey suggests. The study of nearly 13,000 consumers, conducted by News Digital Media, also reveals that at certain times of day the internet is the dominant medium, outstripping both TV and radio.

Webb, right and Blue

Friday 20 June 2008

BlueFreeway founder Richard Webb is poised to launch a new cross platform, biometric based advertising business in the US, but has yet to disengage from the idea of mounting a salvage plan for the distressed ASX listed company.

BlueFreeway poised to re-list and renegotiate

Wednesday 11 June 2008

Beleaguered digital services company BlueFreeway has begun negotiations over selling back its portfolio of part owned companies to their founders, Digital Media can reveal. The buy back scheme for companies not already 100% owned by the group will form part of chairman Michael Hannan’s salvage plan

An agentfor change

Monday 05 May 2008

Richard Freudenstein’s return to Australia last year to head up News Digital Media was a significant appointment for web-based media, but the executive has kept a low profile since then. Brad Howarth finds out what’s been keeping him busy.

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