A week after Yahoo! picks up Associated Content, Forbes steps up and buys True/Slant. We’re seeing more and more acquisitions of companies who can create good content at low costs. continue reading...
The Globe & Mail’s Mathew Ingram describes an almost surreal story about Business Week asking people not to link to it, in 2008!
I canceled my subscription to Business Week earlier this year. It was the last subscription I had. Business Week spills a lot of ink on innovation and the Web economy… so it’s surprising to see them this archaic on understanding how the Web works and recognizing that asking people not to link to you is impossible, let alone impractical. continue reading...
The following is a perpetual-work-in-progress. Once you start to compile a list of mergers and acquisitions, you realize why it’s nearly impossible to have a complete list. We are quite confident that the following is a very good, comprehensive list of the largest, more notable deals… but it is not - and no list will be - fully complete because there are too many countries around the world and too many industries to report (it is highly possible that the Wall Street Journal or Financial Post, for example, has such a list… but it would be thick and unwieldy).
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Rafat Ali got the ball rolling at the big The Future of Business Media, quarterbacking a Q&A with rock star private equity banker Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners and Forbes.com CEO and President James Spanfeller.
Forbes.com has always been a leader or best practices case study for how established, successful and respected print media can blossom online. The company’s appeal has long been going away from hard core business pieces to include lifestyle bits. continue reading...
