Archive for October, 2007
The following is a Q&A I did via email with a newspaper. I asked them if they’d mind if I reposted it on the blog, since they’re doing an article and not a Q&A they said go ahead… so here you go, I was gonna publish a post myself but copying the Q&A and pasting it here made […]
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Rafat Ali decided to join the panel for the last session at the Future of Business Media conference, and he mentioned how the focus of Paid Content is Finance, Media and Technology.
Finance, Media and Technology? Hmm… where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah:
Main Street Meets Madison Avenue, Wall Street and Silicon Valley is the […]
Tags: Blogs, Internet & Web|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Oct 30th
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I am at the Future of Business Media shindig, hosted by Paid Content, and they’re playing a video with Jim Cramer talking to Larry Kramer.
Jim Cramer vs. Larry Kramer is really more about subscription vs. advertising models, with Jim being the founder of TheStreet.com and Larry being the man behind MarketWatch.com
Incidentally, today marks the 10 […]
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Prices have been going up and number of deals have gone up. Will that change?
Alan Meckler, Chairman & CEO of JupiterMedia: Media Bistro hurt us in some ways, others expected same figure even if they did not have same business, revenue and cost structure… done over 500 deals and the main challenge after […]
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The previous panels give way to a Q&A between Rafat Ali and Reuters COO Devin Wenig.
The future is not a text-based wire, it’s multimedia. Text wires will be supplemented by multimedia, be it pictures, text, video, social networking that together tells a story. That’s the future of Reuters News, explains COO of Reuters Devin Wenig.
Reuters […]
Tags: Reuters, Thomson|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Oct 30th
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Some time ago, I suggested (probably not alone) that the real danger to adult entertainment was not piracy but rather, user-generated content. As a web guy (I’ve ever worked in adult or anything), it was clear that a site like YouPorn would be a major threat to adult entertainment. What’s YouPorn? Think YouTube, for […]
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See Part One, Two, and Three.
The fourth panel looked at advertising and asks “where should the advertising go” but that is almost like asking: who owns the Internet.
The panelists include:
- Peter Horan, CEO of IAC Media and Advertising
- Rob Norman, CEO GroupM
- Gloria Scoby, Senior VP Crain Communications
- Tad Smith, Reed Business Information
Staci Kramer was […]
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Wall Street Journal is one - if not the - strongest brands in business news. It’s so strong, that despite being in the increasingly troubled print business, its parent company Dow Jones (also publisher of Barron’s and Marketwatch) fetched a 63% premium in Rupert Murdoch’s $5B offer.
The company’s newspaper is doing fine, thank you; the […]
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Part 1 coverage here.
I grew up reading business magazines: Fortune, Business Week, Economist and to a lesser extent Forbes. Then the Web’s explosion got me to read Fast Company, Business 2.0, Red Herring and company, so I was looking forward to panel #2 with:
- David Carey, publisher of Portfolio (Conde Nast’s $120M startup)
As a […]
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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 […]
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