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There has been a great deal written about the 24/7 Wall St. piece on the value of big blogs. While we put a value of $100 million on Huffington Post, we did not offer a value for TechCrunch. But, it...
The name brand blogs. The big ones. Huffington. TechCrunch. GigaOm. Boing Boing. Ars Technica. SeekingAlpha. AOL has already bought Weblogsinc. It owns popular blogs including flagship Engadget. But,...
Dow Jones (DJ) MarketWatch launched a new series of features that allows its readers to organize news and other features from the website and share them with others. MarketWatch Community provides a...
Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp (NWS) said it again today. He is leaning hard toward making the online edition of The Wall Street Journal free, according to CNN Money.  Depending on which...
After looking at the Nielsen and comScore ratings of the audiences of major financial websites, 24/7 Wall St. turned to Alexa. Alexa shows a website’s three month average reach against all...
According to Reuters, Intel (INTC) received antitrust charges from a branch of the South Korean government. Reuters writes that Campbell (CPB) is seeking over $1 billion for its Godiva chocolate...
August audience figures from comScore show that Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance maintains a lead in unique visitors over rivals AOL Money (TWX) and MSN (MSFT) Money, but that the large pageview advantage that...
When MySpace "founder" Brad Greenspan tried to buy Dow Jones (DJ) he suggested that the company could start a competitor to Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance. In his letter to the DJ board, he said...
Earlier today, we sent out a couple pieces discussing some of the pending mergers and spreads still having wide ranges.  This can be indicative of a deal at risk, but some will close and will...
It was a bit surprising to see Barron’s used Jim Cramer for the cover story.  The article points out that Jim Cramer’s picks have lagged the market.  For starters, Cramer rarely...
Shares in The Tribune Company (TRB) are off almost 4% today to $24.57. The price promised for an LBO lead by Sam Zell is $34. The deal is now likely to die, in which case the public shareholders can...
Dow Jones (DJ) had an awful month in July. Advertising revenue at the print Wall Street Journal decreased 7.2% in July on a 20.9% decrease in advertising volume. An increase in financial advertising...
It appears that the speculation about Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NWS)  making the WSJ online edition free to expand its audience may not make sense. Based on measurements from Net...
Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp (NWS), has spoken about some of his plans for The Wall Street Journal. At least one of his ideas could do severe damage to two companies which are already on the...
According To Reuters, News Corp (NWS) agreed to buy Dow Jones (DJ) for $5.6 billion Reuters reports Sanofi-Aventis profits were hit by cometition from generics. According to The Wall Street...