Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- VC funding in Chinese IT companies falls
- Venture capital funding in Chinese information technology companies was $992 million in 2007, down 9 percent from 2006, according to data from Dow Jones VentureSource. The slowdown in venture funding for technology companies is striking given that funding in China hit its highest level in six years...
- Tags: Technology Company, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Information Technology, Information Technology Company, Internet, Strategy, Venture Capital, Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Did Jobs diss HD camcorder makers?
- According to a Dow Jones report released on Tuesday, Aug. 13, Apple CEO Steve Jobs jabbed the manufacturers of HD camcorders at last week's introduction of the new iMacs in Cupertino. Except, I was there that day and heard a different story — or none at all.Here's how the...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Camcorder, Resolution, Video, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Friday rants: Data silos; Facebook hype; Dow Jones angst
- Friday rants: Data silos; Facebook hype; Dow Jones angstData silosWell, the data is all one logical database and you need to put the mechanisms in place so that this is actually the case from a user and programmer perspective no matter how many physical databases are sitting underneath it. This...
- Tags: silo, Friday Rant, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Facebook
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- Friday rants: Data silos; Facebook hype; Dow Jones angst
- A few points to ponder ahead of the weekend...Why is my information always in the other database?When folks call customer service, some see incompetence. Others see red. I see data silos.This week I've called Verizon and Comcast about billing errors and been transferred repeatedly and also realized Yahoo thinks I...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- News Corp. to buy Dow Jones for $5.6 billion
- News Corp. to buy Dow Jones for $5.6 billionThe Bill Gates of media? NTnt
- Tags: Dow Jones & Company Inc., News Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- Done deal: News Corp. lands Dow Jones, Negroponte on WSJ edit board
- News Corp. has won Dow Jones and Rupert Murdoch got his big catch--The Wall Street Journal.The companies announced that 37 percent of the Bancroft family voted for the deal. Combined with other shareholders--who would possibly turn down $60 a share?--the deal is done. There was little new information in the...
- Tags: Web Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Friday rants: $25,000 acquisitions; 100 days too long; Dow Jones and Rupe
- Friday rants: $25,000 acquisitions; 100 days too long; Dow Jones and RupeOh, come *on*...I appreciate a good rant as much as the next guy, but on two of these points I think you're really off-base.First, there's the TechCrunch story. Yes, it's a pocket-cash deal, but what was the alternative? I...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Blogging, Rupe, Friday Rant, Dow Jones & Company Inc., acquisition
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- Friday rants: $25,000 acquisitions; 100 days too long; Dow Jones and Rupe
- A few rants ahead of the weekend...Is $25,000 material to anything?One rule of thumb in the news business is that you usually don't have to waste your time reporting a merger or acquisition where the deal value is roughly $50 million or less. Depending on the editor each newsroom had...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- Rupe zeroes in on Dow Jones
- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has reached an agreement to buy Dow Jones for $5 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.That price tag is the same as Murdoch's original offer and the Dow Jones board will meet tonight to approve the deal. What remains to be seen is whether the...
- Tags: Web Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- News to know: Salesforce.com; iPhone/Safari dialer; Rupe lands Dow Jones
- Notable headlines:Dan Farber: Salesforce.com transitions to platform as a service. Salesforce swings into its Summer '07 release.Ryan Naraine: Beware the iPhone/Safari dialer.Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux? Larry Dignan: CIO switches his company from Windows to Macs. Computerworld: Mac Attack! An enterprise PC shop switches to Apple.Garett...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Rupe ready to close Dow Jones deal?
- The Business, citing "sources acting for the Dow Jones board, is reporting that News Corp and Rupert Murdoch have sealed the purchase of Dow Jones.Here's what The Business is reporting:Negotiations have been completed and the board is confident the terms of the deal will be accepted by the Bancroft family,...
- Tags: General, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Analysts predict minimal iPhone impact on BlackBerry sales, stock
- An article running this morning on the Dow Jones Newswires quotes analysts and presents information that the release of the iPhone may have minimal impact on BlackBerry sales.John Lynch of Needham & Co. tells Dow Jones that while the Palm Treo is popular with the iPhone's target market of...
- Tags: Corporate Stuff
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Murdoch coveting Dow Jones...and Facebook?
- Murdoch coveting Dow Jones...and Facebook?yesnice
- Tags: Dow Jones & Company Inc., Facebook
- Discussion threads 2007-05-13
- Murdoch coveting Dow Jones...and Facebook?
- The New York Times Richard Siklos wrote a profile of Rupert Murdoch that including some interesting details from a News Corp. executive offsite. He reported that the 76-year-old media mogul spent some quality time with 23-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the Monterey, CA offsite, which was set up for...
- Tags: Facebook, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Dow Jones & Company Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- Rupert Murdoch's excellent adventure
- Is Rupert Murdoch shrewd or what? Perhaps that MySpace acquisition wasnt a fluke. Murdochs News Corp. made an unsolicited bid for Dow Jones and wants to pay a whopping $60 a share. Dow Jones closed at $36.33 on Monday. In a statement, Dow Jones said its evaluating the offer.To understand...
- Tags: General, Media Juggernaut, MySpace, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- IAC, Dow Jones team for personal finance online community
- Barry Diller, CEO, IAC/Interactive, is fond of saying flagship search engine Ask.com is the “glue” for IAC’s integrated conglomerate of Internet properties, even though Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone prefers to see himself as a head “chef.”(SEE Jim Lanzone’s vision for Ask.com: Exclusive Interview)Be it by “glue” or a “mixing of...
- Tags: team, Ask.com, finance, personal finance, IAC, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Barry Diller
- Blog posts 2007-03-11
- Dow Jones gets the memo on IBM's Linux strategy
- Dow Jones gets the memo on IBM's Linux strategyPeople like open sourceI think IBM gets that.IBM is so misguided`` Buell Duncan, IBM's general manager of partner and developer relations (developers, developers, developers, developers) whispered the key point into Dow Jones reporter Chris Reiter's telephone. "Customers are demanding choice. They...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Dana, IBM Linux, strategy, IBM Corp., Linux, Dow Jones & Company Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-22
- Dow Jones gets the memo on IBM's Linux strategy
- Readers of ZDNet have known for months about how IBM is trying to use Linux and open source as a "wedge issue" against Microsoft, especially in rapidly-growing markets like China, India, Russia and Brazil.But maybe it's not really news until Dow Jones and the Mainstream Media pick it up. And...
- Tags: Dow Jones & Company Inc., IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-08-22
- Deriving Order From Chaos: The Benefits of an Information Integration Strategy - A Guide to Help IT Develop a Successful Information Strategy for the Enterprise
- Disconnected departmental knowledge systems make it difficult for employees to find the information they need to make critical decisions. Marketing portals, CRMs, financial tracking systems and collaboration solutions are important tools, yet if they cannot act in concert, valuable information relationships remain undiscovered. How can a workforce share, collaborate and...
- Tags: Solution, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Information Technology, Information Integration, Benefit, Factiva, Strategy, Portals, Management, Internet
- White papers 2004-09-22
- At Dow Jones, Salesforce Integration Delivers More Than Real-Time Information
- Dow Jones Newswires is the premier provider of real-time financial news, with 324,000 terminals feeding real-time information to financial professionals and media outlets worldwide. Dow Jones Newswires sales and support personnel needed centralized access to information on subscribers. In order for users to access comprehensive customer profiles through a single...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dow Jones & Company Inc., Financial, Accounts Receivable, Integration, Dow Jones Newswires, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Case studies
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts
At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Todd Glass of Heller Ehrman moderates a discussion, among tech execs, on the various solar technologies making a difference in the green movement.
The Cisco Mobility Resource Center offers FREE videos, downloads, podcasts and more, all designed to help small and medium businesses get mobile connectivity solutions, improve productivity and drive sales and revenue.
