Internet Broadcasting Systems has partnered with TheStreet.com (Nasdaq: TSCM) to distribute its business content across Internet Broadcasting's network of sites. The strategic content distribution partnership will include stock market data as well as premium content such as articles and videos produced by TheStreet.com.
UTV Group has added more features to UTVi.com. Still in beta and partnering with Disney's ABC Network, the business news website which focuses on India's financial markets has added moderated guru blogs, personal finance articles and mobile products.
Internet users in the UK who often visited online newspaper websites were more than twice as likely as the average Internet user to visit financial news and research websites. A comScore Media Metrix study of Internet users age 15 years and older in the UK resulted in a composition index value of 207 in the finance news and research category where an index value of 100 represents parity. Jack Flanagan, executive vice president of comScore, made the following observation: "...from the advertiser's point of view, understanding the interests of the core online newspaper audience can provide unique insights for targeting ads to them that are consistent with their interests."
In partnership with Cisco Systems, Forbes.com has launched the AnswerNetwork to enable senior business decision-makers to tap each other's expertise, to pose questions and to share answers through online forums, voice and video.
FT.com Alphaville was both the Webby Award Winner and People's Voice Winner in the business blog category. Zopa.com was the Webby Award Winner along with Mint.com as the People's Voice Winner in the financial services category.
Zecco, an online brokerage, has partnered with Wikinvest to add its wiki-based company research to Zecco's quote and research pages. Wikinvest draws on its community of investors to create and verify information about publicly-traded companies and to compile information about business and economic trends.
BusinessWeek.com has won the 2008 National Magazine Award for the
personal service online category. Recognized by the American Society
of Magazine Editors, BusinessWeek.com’s B-Schools feature section ranks and
profiles the top business schools and programs while offering forums,
slideshows, video interviews with deans, MBA student blogs and
financial and employment advice.
Forbes.com has partnered with Lingospot, a service that dynamically scans stories and generates relevant links to related content. Readers can scroll over any word or phrase that is underlined with a broken blue line. Doing so triggers a Lingospot Content Discovery Bubble that displays links to articles, definitions, and videos as well as related articles from the nearly 600 blogs in the recently launched Forbes.com Business and Finance Blog Network.
Kiplinger.com has launched a Paying for College section featuring the best ways to borrow money for college, shop for student loans, and handle credit wisely. The section complements Kiplinger.com's coverage of the Top 100 Values in Public Colleges.
The Washington Post has partnered with Marketwatch to expand its online offering of investor tools to include the latest stock quotes and news, company
profiles, profits, insider transactions, analyst recommendations and SEC filings. An online tutorial explains how users can create and track a customized list of stocks and mutual funds. Meanwhile, the Washington Post will reduce its stock table listings in its Sunday Business section while adding articles from Kiplinger's Personal Finance.
