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Web 3.0 and Seeking Alpha

Posted on Thursday, Mar 29th

We have reviewed Yahoo, MSN, Marketwatch, AOL and CNNMoney’s Personal Finance offerings in the earlier posts and in this final section of finance related site reviews we are going to take a look at Seeking Alpha from the Web 3.0 perspective.

Wisdom From the Trenches

Posted on Thursday, Mar 29th

By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting on the Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. Acknowledging that the Internet is becoming core to people’s lives and that there is room for various online business models, Ashish Gupta, Managing Director of Helion VC, pointed out some of the challenges facing investors in the Internet

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Washington Post’s Hidden Jewel

Posted on Wednesday, Mar 28th

The Washington Post Company is a diversified media and education company that publishes newspapers and magazines, and provides electronic information services and educational and career services. The Company publishes popular newspapers including The Washington Post, and magazines (principally Newsweek). The Company owns Kaplan, Inc., a leading provider of educational and career services both in the

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Will Buyout Save Tribune?

Posted on Tuesday, Mar 27th

Tribune Company is a media and entertainment company engaged in publishing, interactive media and broadcasting. The Company is the only media organization with newspapers, television stations and websites in the nation’s top three markets and reaches out to approximately 80 percent of U.S. households. Tribune publishes 11 popular daily newspapers including Los Angeles Times, Chicago

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Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 6)

Posted on Tuesday, Mar 27th

We continue our discussion on Wink, its capabilities, technology, IPO, and subsequent sale. Remember, all this was happening in the pre-broadband, pre-always-on era that we have come to know in the last 5 years. SM: When you say that you had installations in 30 million households, was that 30 million households subscribed to the services,

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McClatchy: Focusing on Online and Local

Posted on Monday, Mar 26th

The McClatchy Company is the third largest newspaper company in the United States. The Company publishes 31 daily newspapers and approximately 50 non-dailies across 29 locations in the United States. The prominent newspapers from the Company include the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star, the Charlotte Observer and the Sacramento Bee. McClatchy also owns some

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NYT: Try Web 3.0

Posted on Friday, Mar 23rd

The New York Times Company, under pressure from investors because of its stagnant stock performance, announced Thursday that it would raise its quarterly dividend by 31 percent. [The New York Times Wall Street Journal Gawker] All the young graduates at top journalism schools have stars in their eyes when they think about working for New

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Web 3.0 and CNN Money

Posted on Friday, Mar 23rd

We have reviewed Yahoo, MSN, Marketwatch and AOL’s Personal Finance offerings in the earlier posts and today we are going to take a look at CNNMoney from the Web 3.0 perspective. CNNMoney is a financial news and information site similar to Yahoo, AOL and MSN Money and provides a host of financial tools and calculators.

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