DJ: Acquiring Online Businesses

Dow Jones & Company Inc. is a leading media Company engaged in providing global business and financial news across various media platforms that include newspapers, magazines, online content, radio and television. The Company aims to become the number one provider of high quality, easy accessible relevant business content. The Company has three operating segments Consumer

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Web 3.0 & Marketwatch

We have reviewed Yahoo and MSN’s Personal Finance offerings in earlier posts. Marketwatch Inc. is one of the leading providers of financial information, business news and analytical tools. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company Inc. Here, we take a look at Marketwatch from the web 3.0 perspective.

Web 3.0 & MSN Money

We have been discussing the vertical segments that old media companies are losing to new media, and have focused on Personal Finance as an important category. We covered Yahoo from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier, and here we take a look at Microsoft’s offering.

Will Gannett Pull It Off?

I wrote several pieces on the newspaper industry: Newspapers, Roll Up, Newspapers, Wake Up, and the Pro-Am Debate. Gannett (GCI) publishes 90 daily newspapers, nearly 1,000 non-daily publications and 23 television stations in the US. In the UK, Gannett publishes 17 daily newspapers and around 300 non-daily publications. Gannett’s popular newspaper USA TODAY with a

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Yahoo can kill Google AdSense for Content

I got an email from one of my readers, Todd, in response to the Viacom post: “Curious on your latest post – why do you lambast Google for ‘paying hopelessly little to publishers who use AdSense’, when it’s pretty clear from their financials that they pay out nearly 80% of ad revenue to adsense publishers?

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Newspapers Losing Verticals to Online

Big chunks of the revenues of newspapers traditionally came from the verticals (Jobs, Classifieds, Personals, Real Estate, Cars, Travel, Events, Reviews). With the popularity of the online services ascending, and with huge investments made in each of those categories, the newspaper industry has been suffering, as ad dollars systematically flow out of print, and onto

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Viacom Confronts YouTube

Viacom (VIA) sues Google (GOOG) over YouTube. Read the WSJ clip: :: After months of negotiations that failed to produce any settlement, media giant Viacom sued Google and its recently purchased YouTube unit, alleging that the immensely popular video-sharing Internet site engages in “massive intentional copyright infringement.” The suit, filed in a New York federal

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Personal Finance & Web 3.0: Overview

Personal Finance is one of the top segments that draws online advertising dollars, and in this series, we will evaluate the category against the Web 3.0 framework. MsMoney estimates that in the first quarter of 2006 financial websites experienced a 500% jump in traffic. Personal finance websites are gaining momentum with the penetration of broadband,

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