Venture Beat raises money
Venture Beat, the web site that covers Silicon Valley news started by former San Jose Mercury News business reporter Matt Marshall, has raised $320,000 in funding. Marshall wrote, “We’ve been hiring writers and we have record traffic. I’ve bootstrapped the company thus far, and while it’s been rewarding, there’s just so much more we’d like […]
Investor's Business Daily overhauls section, stock listings
Investor’s Business Daily has made a number of changes to its Making Money section, including a new font for its stock listings and a number of new columns, according to a story in Tuesday’s paper. The biggest change is an overhaul of its stock pages that now list stocks based on industry. (See chart at […]
Tech Talker's Sarah Lacy talks
Liz Gannes of NewTeeVee.com talks with Sarah Lacy, one of the hosts of Yahoo’s new online business news show Tech Talker. Here is an excerpt: NewTeeVee: Why were you interested in the gig? Lacy: I actually quit BusinessWeek — a lot of people didn’t know that because I write the column now — because they […]
Ottawa's Tuesday biz section to focus on tech
The Ottawa Citizen’s Tuesday business section is changing to focus more on technology news, according to a short story in this morning’s paper. The story stated, “Daily, our reporters and columnists will examine developments and trends in all aspects of technology, and explain what they mean to readers and to Ottawa’s tech industry. “And every […]
McLean talks about Enron experience
Bethany McLean, the Fortune writer who was one of the first business journalists to question the accounting at Enron, spoke Monday at Cleary University in Michigan, according to a story in the Livingston Press & Argus. The story stated, “‘The surprising thing was most people didn’t really know,’ McLean said of Enron’s employees. ‘I think […]
Economist passes 700,000 subscribers in North America
The Economist’s North American circulation has pushed past the 700,000 mark for the first time. According to preliminary figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations for the last six months of 2007, the circulation of the magazine is now 720,882, up 13.1 percent year on year. Newsstand sales are 68,337, up 10.1 percent. These figures represent total growth of 110 percent in North America since […]
Regional business publications remain upbeat
Ellis Booker of BtoB magazine writes Monday about how regional business publications are thriving despite the woes in other printed media. Booker wrote, “It may even be a good time for start-ups. That’s how Karen Moore, publisher of Southwest Florida Business Today, sees it. ‘This is the right time,’ said Moore, who launched her paper […]
Fast Company also sees circulation growth
Business magazine Fast Company also reported strong growth in its newsstand sales and in its subscriptions during the last six months of 2007. Fast Company reported a total paid circulation base of 749,095 and saw its newsstand sales increase 38 percent from the same period in 2007, to an average of 30,515. For the six-months […]
BusinessWeek sees increase in newsstand sales
BusinessWeek’s newsstand sales jumped 9.3 percent, to 37,397 copies, in the second half of 2007, as compared with the same period in 2006, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations publisher’s statement. In addition, average circulation rose 1.3 percent to 933,566, and the average price of a one-year subscription increased 1.4 percent to $39.57. “The strong […]
Yahoo unveils online business show
Yahoo Inc. will premiere an online technology show Monday that covers Silicon Valley business, according to a story by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Verne Kopytoff. Kopytoff wrote, “The show, ‘Tech Ticker,’ illustrates that life goes on at the Sunnyvale Web portal despite ample uncertainty about the company’s future. Even the project’s small staff acknowledges that […]
