MarketWatch.com has nabbed the high-profile financial columnist Herb Greenberg from rival TheStreet.com. Greenberg will write a free column for CBS MarketWatch’s site, as well as make regular appearances on the…

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The Online Publishers Association today named Larry Kramer, CEO of CBS MarketWatch.com, as its new chairman. Kramer succeeds Christopher Schroeder, the former CEO-publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. Separately, the OPA announced…

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In light of the recent fiasco with its founding editor Thom Clandra, CBS MarketWatch is requiring all employees to register their stock trades with the company. Also, for its financial…

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(Conference call at 11 AM EST today...interesting to listen to, in light of Thom Calandra’s resignation last week) MarketWatch.com’s Q4 2003 income nearly tripled with a 40 percent rise in…

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(Updated: MarketWatch’s stock dropped about 10 percent in late trading after the news) Shows why it is very important to develop more regulation among the financial journalism/analyst community...anytime these quasi-analyst,…

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MarketWatch.com has formed a new organizational unit, MarketWatch Information Services, out of the innards of its own licensing business and Pinnacor, the New York-based company acquired by MarketWatch. The acquisition…

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MarketWatch.com Q3 revenues were $11.6 million, compared to $11.0 million the same period a year ago. Net income was $300,000, compared to a net loss of $724,000 in the year-ago…

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MarketWatch.com will launch Retirement Weekly...this is the third paid-subscription product to be launched by MarketWatch this year. Retirement Weekly will focus on financial issues of concern to baby boomers nearing…

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MarketWatch.com has appointed Zach Leonard, the former COO of FT.com on its board...MKTW is 1/3rd owned by Pearson, parent of FT, and has historical ties through the now-aborted FTMarketWatch. Leonard…

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In an effort to dig deeper into the syndication market, MarketWatch has bought out the financial information syndication provider Pinnacor (fka Screaming Media) for $103 million: $44 million in cash,…

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MarketWatch.com has launched another subscription newsletter called ”The Technical Indicator.” This new daily newsletter offers detailed technical analysis for sophisticated traders. This is MKTW’s second new subscription newsletter launch this…

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Yesterday, when I was talking to Bill Bishop, the EVP & General Manager of CBS MarketWatch, I realized that I have never probably visited the homepage of the site...all of…

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MarketWatch.com, which till now has mainly focused on the consumer market, is trying to make inroads into the institutional market, placing it in direct competition with players like Reuters, Bloomberg…

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As expected, MarketWatch.com, along with newswires France’s AFX News and China’s Xinhua Financial Networks, has formed ”World Business News”, a new alliance aimed at providing more affordable financial news to…

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MarketWatch.com and AFX News are expected to announce today that MarketWatch is taking control of operations and staffing at AFX’s business in the U.S. The deal is essentially a content…

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MarketWatch.com’s Q1 revenues for 2003 increased 13 percent to $11.1 million. Ad sales rose 47 percent to $5.2 million. Licensing sales declined to $5.6 million from $6.2 million a year…

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In a move which further cements MarketWatch’s licensing revenues (it gets almost 50 percent of its revenues from licensing), it has inked a distribution deal to supply Knight Ridder/Tribune Information…

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CBS MarketWatch’s Founding Editor Launches New Subscription Report, Retires as Editor: Thom Calandra, the founding editor of CBS MarketWatch, has launched his own subscription newsletter, titled ”The Calandra Report”.  “Without…

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MarketWatch.com Reports First-Ever Quarterly Profit; Licensing Revenues Decline: Continuing the trend among online media companies, MKTW has reported Q4 net income of $854,000, or 5 cents per share, compared to…

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MarketWatch.com Launches Newsletters & Research Section: MarketWatch.com, the operator of CBS MarketWatch financial news and information site, has launched a newsletter section...this follows its acquisition last year of Hulbert Financial…

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CBS MarketWatch to Look for More Acquisitions: It has been looking for a while now, buying out Hulbert Financial Digest earlier this year. The company will be on the lookout…

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MarketWatch.com Eyes EDGAR; Spurned by TheStreet.com: EDGAR Online, which has been struggling of late in face of competition from upstarts such as 10KWizard and others, is being eyed by MarketWatch.com…

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MarketWatch’s Q3 Results: Online financial news and information provider MarketWatch.com’s (Nasdaq: MKTW) Q3 net losses narrowed and revenues rose slightly, helped by the increase in advertising sales. Net losses narrowed…

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CBS MarketWatch Going the Institutional Route: CBS MarketWatch is going to syndicate its content to institutional content players: research and data systems such as Thomson One platform, FactSet Research Systems,…

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Kramer vs. Cramer: Business 2.0 compares the different strategies of CBS MarketWatch and TheStreet.com. Also read the accompanying story on CBS MarketWatch, which is getting a huge chunk of its…

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