““In its latest quarterly earnings report, Axel Springer—which owns a number of major daily newspapers and magazines in Germany, as well as a large online-classified site—said that if it had owned Business Insider for all of 2015, the site would have contributed $42.8 million in revenues. When the ac…”— Matthew Ingram, fortune.com
“New media players such as Vox, Vice, Huffington Post and BuzzFeed are more serious rivals for Axel Springer's U.S ambitions than established publishers. They have no burden from their legacy business.”— Mathias Döpfner, wsj.com