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WSJ goes digital in Japan, doubles down in India (from Corporate Dealmaker)

News Corp's (NYSE:NWS.A) Dow Jones and Co. (NYSE:NWS) is partnering with the financial services firm SBI Holdings to launch an online version of The Wall Street Journal in Japan. The Wall Street Journal Japan K.K. will begin operation in mid-May with a $4.1 million investment, according to SBI, with plans...

Posted on May 8, 2009 10:00 AM

Dow Jones acquisition deepens global footprint (from Corporate Dealmaker)

News Corp.-owned Dow Jones & Co. earlier this week acquired the database assets of the Library House Ltd., a bankrupt U.K.-based provider of venture capital data on emerging European companies. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but the transaction wasn't large enough to draw much attention. It's worth mentioning here, though,...

Posted on January 8, 2009 11:33 AM

IBM posts profit, plans bond sale, but investors stay fearful (from Corporate Dealmaker)

You might think news of a bellwether company doing what it's supposed to do would reassure panicky investors. Not these days.Information technology behemoth IBM Corp. released preliminary results on Wednesday night, reporting net income of $2.8 billion for the third quarter, an increase of 20% from the previous period. Among...

Posted on October 9, 2008 4:05 PM

A JV done right (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Dow Jones' Clare Hart on the successful ramp-up and wind-down of the Factiva joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters.

Posted on October 15, 2007 7:47 PM

The crossing (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Memo to media moguls: Get over it. Get over your need for control. Get over the fear and fealty you've instilled in your subordinates for all those years. And get over the top-down decision-making process that has characterized mass media companies since they first arose in the 19th century....

Posted on December 15, 2005 7:30 PM