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Web 3.0 & News Corp (Part 4)
Acquisition Targets Over the years, News Corp. has been acquiring businesses that would help it close the gaps in its portfolio. The MySpace acquisition helped it to leapfrog in the social networking space and with the recent acquisition of Dow Jones it will emerge as a leading player in the financial news and information space.
QualComm: The Aftermath
By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the article “QualComm: Legal Battles Galore”, we reviewed the lawsuits that the company faced and also traced their genesis. In this article, we will look into the impact of these law-suits on QualComm (QCOM). There was definitely some action following these rulings – Verizon (VZ) signed an unprecedented agreement
Web 3.0 & News Corp (Part 3)
Web 3.0 Framework discussion Context News Corp. has got its Context right. Be it sports (FoxSports or Scout), entertainment (Fox or AmericanIdol), Social Networking (MySpace), games (IGN or GameSpy), Men (AskMen) or Photo-sharing (Photobucket) the Company is bang on in terms of Context. If I am looking for men’s fashion and lifestyle information, there is
Online Video Beneficiaries: Extreme?
The increasing popularity of YouTube and its compatriot social video sharing sites is driving the online video trend. Other trends like video conferencing and IPTV are also contributing to the increasing video traffic. The enormous amount of video traffic and the need for higher bandwidth is putting networking equipment players like Cisco in high gear.
Web 3.0 & News Corp (Part 2)
Vertical Strategy News Corp. is present in some of the most promising and rapidly growing verticals in the online arena. The Company delivers a platform of integrated sites spanning social networking, entertainment, lifestyle, games, sports and information. With its recent acquisition of Dow Jones, it will also be present in the key vertical of Business
Online Video Beneficiaries: 3Com?
On the sixth anniversary of 9/11, we are reminded that travel has become a nightmare, and online video conferencing is a booming trend, and the increasing video traffic is fattening the networking equipment players. In my earlier posts on Online Video Beneficiaries, I have covered Polycom and Cisco. In this post, I will look at
Web 3.0 & News Corp (Part 1)
Introduction News Corporation is a $28.66 billion diversified media and entertainment company. The Company operates in eight business segments: Filmed Entertainment, Television, Cable Network Programming, Direct Broadcast Satellite Television, Magazines and Inserts, Newspapers, Book Publishing and Interactive Media primarily in the United States, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, Asia and the Pacific Basin. News
Cognos’ Enterprise 3.0 Strategy Missing
The view from the top is getting clearer. The Business Intelligence companies that are relatively big and have strong appetite to digest acquisitions are either filling gaps in their product lines or expanding market share. COGN makes Business Intelligence and Performance Management software and has over 23,000 clients worldwide. Cognos’ (NASDAQ: COGN) latest buy, Applix