Reportlinker's blog : Web 3.0, Vertical Search, Information Industry and Market Research News - Tag - information industry

Want to know more about the future of the information industry shapers ??

Nicolas — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:56:00 +0200

Steve Goldstein, CEO of Alacra and author of Alacrablog write a short article last Friday titled "Revere M&A Scenario Reports". The publication date is quite funny, when you know that's the day when Marketresearch.com announced TBO takeover ! But that's on another level that the M&A scenario are here presented.

Steve listed here three megadeals that are still rumor, but can strongly affect the information industry competitive landscape on the short term :

Thomson buying Reuters
News Corp buying Dow Jones
Microsoft buying Yahoo!

The reports present which consequences merger or acquisition between two firms would have on product and services by listing and comparing each of them. One can just regret that no analyse are given on the competitors answers. The good news is that , thanks to Revere Data, these reports can be download for free on Steve's blog.

Marketresearch.com acquires Profound

Nicolas — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:39:00 +0200

Thomson announced it clearly few months ago : they were looking for someone to take Profound and Newsedge over. The deal, undisclosed yet, was signed last Friday. Officialy, The acquisition expands MarketResearch.com's international reach with additional content and sales presence in Europe and North America. Profound provides a closed-platform, market research service that complements MarketResearch.com's open-format, web-based service.

When we know how hardly is working Profound search engine, we can doubt of the sincerity of this last info ! Nevertheless, this proove that the information industry it still structuring itself by acquisition. And playing this game, Marketresearch is now (really) becoming one player to look at.

The Business Information 3.0 is born. Reportlinker follows this trend.

Nicolas — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:39:00 +0200

John Blossom, Senior Analyst for Shore Communications Inc, wrote an excellent article about companies "Building Quality Business Content from the Web". John gives its opinion on the future of the information industry new entrants. According to John, Business Information 3.0 (Web 3.0 information industry companies) has been born. These companies use "born-on-the-Web content and technologies to create business information services that are several notches above previous efforts to glean quality information from Web sites and other key sources". They are modifying the competitive landscape, as John considers that leaders like Factiva, Hoover's, and others are not able to dive in the deep web to gather Open Access Information.

Two companies (Zoominfo and Generate Inc) are presented as an example. One can still tell John that he forgot to talk about Reportlinker !!

Article can be found here.

18th annual Library + Information show begins on Thursday

Nicolas — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:24:00 +0200

The Library and information Show is organised by VNU Exhibitions Europe. This unique show offers something for everyone who works in the library and information professions. This year free seminar programme offers the opportunity to learn more about the information industry future. We advise you to visit the session named "The Corporate Need for the Information Professional".

4th annual SIIA Content Forum conference begins on Monday

Nicolas — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:15:00 +0200

The 4th annual SIIA Content Forum conference is beggining Monday the 15th April. This summit will deliver the tools, tactics, and best practices necessary to build, enable and sell content. Among speakers, you will find leading and emerging information industry companies like Factiva, Hoovers or Highbeam.

Digital Velocity begins on Thursday

Nicolas — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:03:00 +0200

Digital Velocity is organised by American Business Media, the association of business information providers. This conference will have technical, business, and thought-leaders address the following hot topics :

Web 2.0 editorial content approaches
Digital media product development,
Effective selling to changing buying habits.

All information about this information industry conference can be found here.

The eighth annual Buying & Selling eContent conference begins on Sunday

Nicolas — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:06:00 +0100

Buying & Selling eContent is an executive-level conference where the key players in the information industry gather to learn, listen, and exchange ideas and solutions. Don't forget t have a look to their summit wiki.