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Ticker symbol
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A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. A stock symbol may consist of letters, numbers or a combination of both, ticker symbol refers to the symbols that were printed on the ticker tape of a ticker tape machine. Stock symbols are unique identifiers assigned to each security traded on a particular market, for example, AAPL is for Apple Inc. OODH is for Orion DHC, Inc. and HD is for Home Depot, a stock symbol can consist of letters, numbers, or a combination of both, and is a way to uniquely identify that stock. The symbols were kept as short as possible to reduce the number of characters that had to be printed on the ticker tape, the allocation of symbols and formatting convention is specific to each stock exchange. In the US, for example, stock tickers are typically between 1 and 4 letters and represent the name where possible. In Europe, most exchanges use three-letter codes, for example Dutch consumer goods company Unilever traded on the Amsterdam Euronext exchange has the symbol UNA, while in Asia, numbers are often used as stock tickers to avoid issues for international investors when using non-Latin scripts. For example, the bank HSBCs stock traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has the ticker symbol 0005, symbols sometimes change to reflect mergers. Prior to the 1999 merger with Mobil Oil, Exxon used a spelling of the company XON as its ticker symbol. The symbol of the firm after the merger was XOM, symbols are sometimes reused, in the US the single-letter symbols are particularly sought after as vanity symbols. For example, since Mar 2008 Visa Inc. has used the symbol V that had previously used by Vivendi which had delisted. To fully qualify a stock, both the ticker and the exchange or country of listing needs to be known, on many systems both must be specified to uniquely identify the security. This is often done by appending the location or exchange code to the ticker, although stock tickers identify a security, they are exchange dependent, generally limited to stocks and can change. These limitations have led to the development of other codes in financial markets to identify securities for settlement purposes, the most prevalent of these is the International Securities Identifying Number. An ISIN uniquely identifies a security and its structure is defined in ISO6166, Securities for which ISINs are issued include bonds, commercial paper, stocks, and warrants. The ISIN identifies the security, not the exchange on which it trades, for instance, Daimler AG stock trades on twenty-two different stock exchanges worldwide, and is priced in five different currencies, it has the same ISIN on each, though not the same ticker symbol. ISIN cannot specify a particular trade in this case, and another identifier, following the introduction of the Sequence trading platform in 1996, EPICs were renamed Tradable Instrument Display Mnemonics, but they are still widely referred to as EPICs. Stocks can also be identified using their SEDOL number or their ISIN, in the United States, modern letter-only ticker symbols were developed by Standard & Poors to bring a national standard to investing
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New York Stock Exchange
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The New York Stock Exchange, is an American stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York. It is by far the worlds largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its companies at US$19.3 trillion as of June 2016. The average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013, the NYSE trading floor is located at 11 Wall Street and is composed of 21 rooms used for the facilitation of trading. A fifth trading room, located at 30 Broad Street, was closed in February 2007, the main building and the 11 Wall Street building were designated National Historic Landmarks in 1978. The NYSE is owned by Intercontinental Exchange, an American holding company that it also lists, previously, it was part of NYSE Euronext, which was formed by the NYSEs 2007 merger with Euronext. NYSE and Euronext now operate as divisions of Intercontinental Exchange, the NYSE has been the subject of several lawsuits regarding fraud or breach of duty and in 2004 was sued by its former CEO for breach of contract and defamation. The earliest recorded organization of securities trading in New York among brokers directly dealing with each other can be traced to the Buttonwood Agreement, previously securities exchange had been intermediated by the auctioneers who also conducted more mundane auctions of commodities such as wheat and tobacco. In 1817 the stockbrokers of New York operating under the Buttonwood Agreement instituted new reforms, after sending a delegation to Philadelphia to observe the organization of their board of brokers, restrictions on manipulative trading were adopted as well as formal organs of governance. Several locations were used between 1817 and 1865, when the present location was adopted, the invention of the electrical telegraph consolidated markets, and New Yorks market rose to dominance over Philadelphia after weathering some market panics better than other alternatives. The Civil War greatly stimulated speculative securities trading in New York, by 1869 membership had to be capped, and has been sporadically increased since. The latter half of the century saw rapid growth in securities trading. Securities trade in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was prone to panics. The Stock Exchange Luncheon Club was situated on the floor from 1898 until its closure in 2006. The main building, located at 18 Broad Street, between the corners of Wall Street and Exchange Place, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978, as was the 11 Wall Street building. The NYSE announced its plans to merge with Archipelago on April 21,2005, NYSEs governing board voted to merge with rival Archipelago on December 6,2005, and became a for-profit, public company. It began trading under the name NYSE Group on March 8,2006, Wall Street is the leading US money center for international financial activities and the foremost US location for the conduct of wholesale financial services. It comprises a matrix of wholesale financial sectors, financial markets, financial institutions, the principal sectors are securities industry, commercial banking, asset management, and insurance. Prior to the acquisition of NYSE Euronext by the ICE in 2013, Marsh Carter was the Chairman of the NYSE, presently, the chairman is Jeffrey Sprecher
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Nikesh Arora
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Nikesh Arora, a former Google executive, was the President & Chief Operating Officer of SoftBank Corp from October 2014 until 21 June 2016. Born to an Indian Air Force officer, Arora graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology and he holds a degree from Boston College and an MBA from Northeastern University. He also holds the CFA designation, President & Chief Operating Officer of SoftBank Corp. Arora. received over $200 million in compensation over the last two years while at the head of Softbanks operations and this pay package made him worlds 3rd highest -paid executive. He was Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Google Inc. since January 2011 until July 2014 and he left Google in July 2014 resigning from the post of Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer. Arora served on the board of directors at Colgate-Palmolive Company from March 8,2012, until his resignation on September 10,2014. Arora worked as Chief Marketing Officer and as a Member of the Management Board at T-Mobile, Bharti Airtel, and serves as a Trustee at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, California. Since 2007, Arora has also served as a Senior Advisor to Silver Lake Partners, from 2001 to 2004, he served as Chief Marketing Officer of the T-Mobile International Division of Deutsche Telekom AG. He was Chief Executive Officer and Founder of T-Motion PLC, which merged with T-Mobile International in 2002, Arora began his career at Fidelity Investments in 1992, holding a variety of finance and technology management positions, ultimately serving as Vice President, Finance of Fidelity Technologies. Nikesh Arora worked for Deutsche Telekom, Putnam Investments, Fidelity Investments
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Santa Clara, California
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Santa Clara is a city in Santa Clara County, California, named after the Spanish mission that was established there in 1777. The citys population was 116,468 at the 2010 United States Census, located 45 miles southeast of San Francisco, the city was founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852. The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions, Mission Santa Clara de Asís, the Mission and Mission Gardens are located on the grounds of Santa Clara University. Saint Clare is the saint of Santa Clara. Santa Clara is located in the center of Silicon Valley and is home to the headquarters of several companies such as Intel. It is also home to Santa Clara University, the oldest institution of learning in the state of California. It is bordered by San Jose, Sunnyvale, and Cupertino, the first European to visit the valley was José Francisco Ortega in 1769. He found the area inhabited by Native Americans, whom the Spanish called the Costanos, coast people, the Spanish began to colonize California with 21 missions and the Mission Santa Clara de Asis was founded in 1777. In 1846, the American flag was raised over Monterey and symbolized the transfer of the sovereignty of the California Republic over to the United States of America, in 1851, Santa Clara College was established on the grounds of the original Mission. In 1852, Santa Clara was incorporated as a town, it became state-chartered by 1862, for the next century the economy centered on agriculture since orchards and vegetables were thriving in the fertile soil. By the beginning of the 20th century, the population had reached 5,000, in 1905, the first public high-altitude flights by humans were made over Santa Clara in gliders designed by John J. Montgomery. The semiconductor industry, which sprouted around 1960, changed the city and surrounding Valley of Hearts Delight, Santa Claras first medical hospital was built in 1963. This structure, on Kiely Boulevard, was replaced in 2007 with the new Kaiser Permanente medical center located on Lawrence Expressway at Homestead Road, Santa Clara was also home to a major mental health facility, Agnews State Hospital. According to the National Park Service, more than 100 persons were killed at this site in the 1906 earthquake, the site is the former home to Sun Microsystems and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Santa Clara is drained by three creeks, all of which empty into the southern portion of San Francisco Bay, these creeks are San Tomas Aquino Creek, Saratoga Creek. This owl uses burrows created by ground squirrels and prefers generally level grasslands, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city covers an area of 18.4 square miles, all of it land. The average daily temperatures in July range from 82 °F to 53 °F, winters are mild, with the mean daily temperatures in January ranging from 58 °F to 38 °F. Most of the rainfall comes in the winter months, the summer months are generally rainless
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Firewall (computing)
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In computing, a firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls the incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules. A firewall typically establishes a barrier between a trusted, secure network and another outside network, such as the Internet. Firewalls are often categorized as either network firewalls or host-based firewalls, Network firewalls filter traffic between two or more networks, they are either software appliances running on general purpose hardware, or hardware-based firewall computer appliances. Host-based firewalls provide a layer of software on one host that controls network traffic in, Firewall appliances may also offer other functionality to the internal network they protect, such as acting as a DHCP or VPN server for that network. The term firewall originally referred to a wall intended to confine a fire or potential fire within a building, later uses refer to similar structures, such as the metal sheet separating the engine compartment of a vehicle or aircraft from the passenger compartment. Firewall technology emerged in the late 1980s when the Internet was a new technology in terms of its global use. It has hit Berkeley, UC San Diego, Lawrence Livermore, Stanford, the Morris Worm spread itself through multiple vulnerabilities in the machines of the time. Although it was not malicious in intent, the Morris Worm was the first large attack on Internet security. The first type of firewall was the packet filter which looks at network addresses and ports of the packet, the first paper published on firewall technology was in 1988, when engineers from Digital Equipment Corporation developed filter systems known as packet filter firewalls. This fairly basic system was the first generation of what is now a highly involved, packet filters act by inspecting the packets which are transferred between computers on the Internet. If a packet does not match the packet filters set of filtering rules, conversely, if the packet matches one or more of the programmed filters, the packet is allowed to pass. This type of packet filtering pays no attention to whether a packet is part of a stream of traffic. Instead, it filters each packet based only on information contained in the packet itself, when the packet passes through the firewall, it filters the packet on a protocol/port number basis. For example, if a rule in the firewall exists to block telnet access, from 1989–1990 three colleagues from AT&T Bell Laboratories, Dave Presotto, Janardan Sharma, and Kshitij Nigam, developed the second generation of firewalls, calling them circuit-level gateways. Second-generation firewalls perform the work of their predecessors but operate up to layer 4 of the OSI model. This is achieved by retaining packets until enough information is available to make a judgement about its state, though static rules are still used, these rules can now contain connection state as one of their test criteria. Certain denial-of-service attacks bombard the firewall with thousands of fake connection packets in an attempt to overwhelm it by filling its connection state memory, Marcus Ranum, Wei Xu, and Peter Churchyard developed an application firewall known as Firewall Toolkit. In June 1994, Wei Xu extended the FWTK with the enhancement of IP filter
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Israeli Americans
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Israeli Americans are Americans who have Israeli citizenship either by descent, naturalization, or birth in Israel. Israelis began migrating to the United States shortly after the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. A second wave of modest immigration continued with a total of 36,306 Israelis during 1970 to 1979,43,669 in 1980 to 1989,41,340 in 1990 to 1999 and 54,801 in 2000 to 2009. Since 2010 Israeli migration to the U. S. and has continued at around four thousand a year since, also, the acquisition of aspects of American culture in Israel caused many Israelis to want to have the economic and educational opportunities of the United States. Since the declaration of the state of Israel, and until today many Israelis emigrated to the United States. The 2000 United States Census estimated that as many as 106,839 Israelis live in the United States nowadays, while other unsourced estimates say the number is much higher, around 500,000. A considerable numbers of Israelis, estimated broadly from 200,000 to three times that figure, have moved abroad in the recent decades, reasons for emigration vary, but generally relate to a combination of economic and political concerns. The New York City metropolitan area is home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel, in 2009, Steven M. Cohen and Judith Veinstein found that in New York, Jewish Israeli emigrants are highly affiliated with the Jewish community even though community affiliation is low in Israel. Based on the 2013 Pew American Jewry Survey estimate base on Jews by religion/no religion/Jewish background who were born in Israel/Palestine is 140,0000 nationally, American Jews born in Israel had 40 thousand children under age 18 in their US households. An An additional 60 thousand American Jews reported that they had lived in Israel. The U. S states by Israeli Americans as per the 2000 census, Various Israeli-American communities have their own newspapers which are printed in Hebrew. Hundreds of thousands of spectators view the annual Celebrate Israel Parade on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a variety of Hebrew language websites, newspapers and magazines are published in South Florida, New York, Los Angeles and other U. S. regions. The Israeli Channel along with two other Hebrew-language channels are available via satellite broadcast nationally in the United States, Hebrew language Israeli programming on local television was broadcast in New York and Los Angeles during the 1990s, prior to Hebrew language satellite broadcast. Live performances by Israeli artists are a regular occurrence in centers of Israeli emigrants in the U. S. an Israeli Independence Day Festival has taken place yearly in Los Angeles since 1990 with thousands of Israeli emigrants and American Jews. In Los Angeles, a Council of Israeli Community was founded in 2001. S, president, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain greeted the attendees by video and expressed their support for the residents of Sderot. An Israeli Business Network of Beverly Hills has existed since 1996, according to CNN, Israeli companies are establishing entrepreneurial ventures in New York City at the rate of ten new startups per month. In return, Jewish Americans, especially religious Jewish Americans, tend to maintain contact with the Israeli American community besides participation in religious ceremonies. 75% of Israeli Americans marry within the Jewish community, comedian-writer Robert Smigel came up with a Saturday Night Live sketch in 1990 called the Sabra Shopping Network
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Check Point
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As of 2016 the company has approximately 4,000 employees worldwide. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company has development centers in Israel, California, Sweden, the company has main offices in the United States, in San Carlos, California, in Dallas, Texas, and in Ottawa, Ontario. Check Point was established in Ramat-Gan, Israel in 1993, by Gil Shwed, Marius Nacht, Shwed developed the idea while serving in the Unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Forces, where he worked on securing classified networks. Initial funding of US$400,000 was provided by venture capital fund BRM Group, in 1994 Check Point signed an OEM agreement with Sun Microsystems, followed by a distribution agreement with HP in 1995. The same year, the U. S. head office was established in Redwood City, by February 1996 the company was named worldwide firewall market leader by IDC, with a market share of 40 percent. In June 1996 Check Point raised $67 million from its public offering on NASDAQ. In 1998 Check Point established a partnership with Nokia, which bundled Check Points Software with Nokias computer Network Security Appliances, in 2003, a class action lawsuit was filed against Check Point over violation of the Securities Exchange Act by failing to disclose major financial information. During the first decade of the 21st century Check Point started acquiring other IT security companies, over the years many employees who worked at Check Point have left to start their own software companies. These include Shlomo Kremer, who started Imperva, Nir Zuk, who founded Palo Alto Networks, Ruvi Kitov and Reuven Harrison of Tufin, and Yonadav Leitersdorf, Protect Data, the holding company for PointSec Mobile Technologies, in a cash deal valued at $586m in late 2006. Prior to their acquisition by Check Point, Protect Data acquired Reflex Software, NFR security, an intrusion prevention system developer, for $20 million in late 2006, following its failed plan to acquire the larger IPS vendor Sourcefire. Nokia Security Appliances division was acquired in April 2009, liquid Machines, a data security startup company based in Boston, was acquired in June 2010. Dynasec, a provider of governance, risk management. Hyperwise, a startup, focused on CPU Level Threat Prevention was acquired Feb 2015. Lacoon Mobile Security was acquired in April 2015, relations between Check Point and the SofaWare founders went sour after the company acquisition in 2002. His derivative suit was successful, and Check Point was ordered to pay SofaWare 13 million shekels for breach of contract. In 2006 the Tel Aviv District Court Judge ruled that Bogner SofaWare could sue Check Point by proxy for $5.1 million in alleged damage to SofaWare. Bogner claimed that Check Point, which owned 60% of Sofaware, had behaved belligerently, and withheld monies due for use of SofaWare technology and products Check Point appealed the ruling, but lost. In 2009 the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that a group of founders of SofaWare, the court ruled that the three founders could exercise their veto power only as a group and by majority rule
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IP address
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An IP address is an identifier assigned to each computer and other device connected to a TCP/IP network that is used to locate and identify the node in communications with other nodes on the network. IP addresses are written and displayed in human-readable notations, such as 172.16.254.1 in IPv4. Version 4 of the Internet Protocol defines an IP address as a 32-bit number and its deployment commenced in the mid-2000s and is ongoing. Addresses have been distributed by IANA to the RIRs in blocks of approximately 16.8 million addresses each, each ISP or private network administrator assigns an IP address to each device connected to its network. Such assignments may be on a static or dynamic basis, depending on its software, an IP address serves two principal functions, host or network interface identification and location addressing. Its role has been characterized as follows, A name indicates what we seek, an address indicates where it is. A route indicates how to get there, the header of each IP packet sent over the Internet must contain the IP address of both the destination server or website and of the sender. The Domain Name System translates domain names to the corresponding destination IP address, both the source address and the destination address may be changed in transit by a network address translation device. The senders IP address is available to the server and becomes the destination address when the server responds to a client request. A sender wanting to remain anonymous to the server may use a proxy server, when the destination server responds to the proxy server, it would forward it on to the true client—ie. Change the IP address to that of the originator of the request, a reverse DNS lookup involves the querying of DNS to determine the domain name associated with an IP address. There are two versions of the Internet Protocol, IP version 4 and IP version 6, each version defines an IP address differently. Because of its prevalence, the generic term IP address typically still refers to the addresses defined by IPv4. The gap in version sequence between IPv4 and IPv6 resulted from the assignment of number 5 to the experimental Internet Stream Protocol in 1979, an IP address in IPv4 is 32-bits in size, which limits the address space to 4294967296 IP addresses. Of this number, IPv4 reserves some addresses for special purposes such as private networks or multicast addresses. IPv4 addresses are usually represented in dot-decimal notation, consisting of four numbers, each ranging from 0 to 255, separated by dots. Each part represents a group of 8 bits of the address, in some cases of technical writing, IPv4 addresses may be presented in various hexadecimal, octal, or binary representations. In the early stages of development of the Internet Protocol, network administrators interpreted an IP address in two parts, network number portion and host number portion
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International Data Group
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International Data Group, Inc. is an American-based media, data and marketing services and venture capital organization. IDG evolved from International Data Corporation which was founded in 1964 in Newtonville, Massachusetts, IDC provides market research and advisory services and is now a subsidiary of IDG. IDG operates in 97 countries and is headquartered in Boston, IDGs brands include CIO, Computerworld, PCWorld and Macworld. IDG produces these and its publications on a national level in each country. IDGs subsidiary IDG World Expo produces large-scale events, such as conventions and these are typically conventions for technology businesses. IDG World Expo runs E for All, Macworld Conference & Expo, IDG also has its own international news agency, IDG News Service. It is headquartered in Boston and has bureaus in cities such as New York, Beijing, Amsterdam and it provides news, images, video and other editorial content to IDGs web sites and print publications worldwide. In 2005, several investors, including IDG, attempted to purchase BlogCN, IDG Books, which was a public company spun off from the privately held IDG, published the popular self-help. For Dummies books. The. For Dummies range was limited to computer related fields. The series is now published by John Wiley & Sons, IDG Books/Hungry Minds — as IDG Books was briefly renamed before being sold to Wiley in 2001 — no longer exists as a separate company. In 2014, the founder and then-owner died, leaving the corporation to the McGovern Foundation, in 2016, the corporation retained Goldman Sachs to explore a possible sale. Also at the time, International Data Group published publications such as Computerworld magazine, on March 29, China Oceanwide Holdings Group announced the close of the acquisition of International Data Group, Inc. IDG Connect, a division of International Data Group, produces, publishes and distributes local IT and business information. Founded in 2006, it has offices in Framingham, Massachusetts, IDG Ventures was founded in 1996. It is a network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management. The IDG Ventures network comprises five independent partnerships managing funds in North America, each partnership makes investments on behalf of its limited partners, including IDG. The latest San Francisco fund, formed in 2007, accepted other institutional investors in addition to IDG, following the successful launch of the San Francisco fund, IDG organized its non-publishing investments in China into venture funds. In 2009, IDG Ventures China renamed itself IDG Capital Partners to reflect the breadth of its half dozen funds encompassing start-up venture through growth investments, in 2000, IDG started a fund in Europe, this fund is now closed
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The Register
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The Register is a British technology news and opinion website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson. Situation Publishing Ltd is listed as the sites publisher, drew Culllen is an owner, Linus Birtles the managing director and Andrew Orlowski is the Executive Editor. The Register was founded in London as a newsletter called Chip Connection. In 1998 The Register became an online news source. Magee left in 2001 to start competing publications The Inquirer, and later the IT Examiner, in 2002, The Register expanded to have a presence in London and San Francisco, creating The Register USA at theregus. com through a joint venture with Toms Hardware. In 2003, that moved to theregister. com. That content was later merged onto theregister. co. uk, the Register carries syndicated content including Simon Travaglias BOFH stories. In 2010 The Register supported the launch of the Paper Aircraft Released Into Space. Editorial staffers include Andrew Orlowski, Paul Kunert, Gavin Clarke, Joe Fay, Chris Williams, jude Karabus is head of production. In 2011 it was daily by over 350,000 users according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Rising to 468,000 daily and nearly 9.5 million monthly in 2013, in November 2011 the UK and US each accounted for approximately 42% and 34% of page impressions respectively, with Canada being the next most significant origin of page hits at 3%. In 2012 the UK and US accounted for approximately 41% and 28% of page impressions respectively, in October 2013, Alexa reported that the site ranked #3,140 in the world for its web traffic, up approximately 1,516 slots over the previous 3 months. It was #2,343 in the USA, in April 2015, following a redesign of the website, Alexa reported that the site ranking dropped to #3,430 in the world, and traffic had dropped by over 6%. As of 11 April 2016, Alexa gives a global ranking for the site of #4,750, channel Register covers computer business and trade news, which includes business press releases. News and articles for computer hardware and consumer electronics is covered by Reg Hardware, Reg Research is an in-depth resource on technologies and how they relate to business. On October 7,2010, The Register published a story misrepresenting the work of Professor Joanna Haigh from Imperial College London
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Bloomberg Businessweek
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Bloomberg Businessweek is an American weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L. P. Businessweek was founded in 1929, the magazine was created to provide information and interpretation about what was happening in the business world and it is headquartered in New York City. Megan Murphy was appointed editor of the magazine in November 2016, Businessweek was first published in September 1929, weeks before the stock market crash of 1929. The magazine provided information and opinions on what was happening in the world at the time. Businessweek was originally published to be a resource for business managers, however, in the 1970s, the magazine shifted its strategy and added consumers outside of the business world. Since 1975, Businessweek has carried more annual advertising pages than any magazine in the United States. Stephen B. Shepard served as editor-in-chief from 1984 until 2005 when he was chosen to be the dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Under Shepard, Businessweeks readership grew to more than six million in the late 1980s and he was succeeded by Stephen J. Adler of The Wall Street Journal. Businessweek suffered a decline during the recession as advertising revenues fell one-third by the start of 2009. In July 2009, it was reported that McGraw-Hill was trying to sell Businessweek and had hired Evercore Partners to conduct the sale. Because of the liabilities, it was suggested that it might change hands for the nominal price of $1 to an investor who was willing to incur losses turning the magazine around. In late 2009, Bloomberg L. P. bought the magazine—for a reported price between $2 million to $5 million plus assumption of liabilities—and renamed it Bloomberg BusinessWeek. It is now believed McGraw-Hill received the high end of the price, at $5 million. Currently, the magazine still loses $30 million per year, about half of the $60 million it was reported losing in 2009, Adler resigned as editor-in-chief and was replaced by Josh Tyrangiel, who had been deputy managing editor of Time magazine. In early 2010, the title was restyled Bloomberg Businessweek as part of a redesign. Megan Murphy is the editor of the magazine in the eight years of Bloomberg ownership. The magazine is losing between $20-$30 million a year. The magazine is to undergo changes in the second quarter of 2017
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Forbes
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Forbes is an American business magazine. Published bi-weekly, it features articles on finance, industry, investing. Forbes also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, politics and its headquarters is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. Primary competitors in the business magazine category include Fortune and Bloomberg Businessweek. The magazine is known for its lists and rankings, including its lists of the richest Americans. Another well-known list by the magazine is The Worlds Billionaires list, the motto of Forbes magazine is The Capitalist Tool. Its chairman and editor-in-chief is Steve Forbes, and its CEO is Mike Perlis, Forbes, a financial columnist for the Hearst papers, and his partner Walter Drey, the general manager of the Magazine of Wall Street, founded Forbes magazine on September 15,1917. Forbes provided the money and the name and Drey provided the publishing expertise, the original name of the magazine was Forbes, Devoted to Doers and Doings. Drey became vice-president of the B. C. Forbes Publishing Company, while B. C. Forbes became editor-in-chief, B. C. Forbes was assisted in his later years by his two eldest sons, Bruce Charles Forbes and Malcolm Stevenson Forbes. Bruce Forbes took over on his fathers death, and his strengths lay in streamlining operations, during his tenure, 1954–1964, the magazines circulation nearly doubled. On Malcolms death, his eldest son Malcolm Stevenson Steve Forbes Jr. became President and Chief Executive of Forbes, between 1961 and 1999 the magazine was edited by James Michaels. In 1993, under Michaels, Forbes was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. com, a 2009 New York Times report said,40 percent of the enterprise was sold. For a reported $300 million, setting the value of the enterprise at $750 million, according to Mark M. Edmiston of AdMedia Partners, Its probably not worth half of that now. The companys headquarters moved to the Newport section of downtown Jersey City. In November 2013, Forbes Media, which publishes Forbes magazine, was put up for sale and this was encouraged by Elevation Partners, of whom were minority shareholders. Sales documents prepared by Deutsche Bank revealed that the publishers 2012 EBITDA was $15 million, Forbes reportedly sought a price of $400 million. In July 2014, Forbes sold a majority of itself to Integrated Whale Media Investments, Steve Forbes and his magazines writers offer investment advice on the weekly Fox TV show Forbes on Fox and on Forbes On Radio. Other company groups include Forbes Conference Group, Forbes Investment Advisory Group, from the 2009 Times report, Steve Forbes recently returned from opening up a Forbes magazine in India, bringing the number of foreign editions to 10
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TechCrunch
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TechCrunch is an online publisher of technology industry news. It primarily covers businesses ranging from startups to established firms, notable journalists and contributors include venture capitalists Chris Dixon and entrepreneurs Justin Kan and Kevin Rose. The website is owned by AOL, on September 28,2010, at its WizCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, AOL announced that it would acquire TechCrunch. The price was rumored to be between $25 million and $40 million, past winners include Qwiki, Getaround, YourMechanic, and Enigma. io. The company claims to have more than 50,000 active contributors, members of the public, subject to registration, can make submissions to the database, however, all changes are subject to review by a moderator before being accepted. Data is constantly reviewed by editors to ensure it is up to date, in 2013, CrunchBase said it had 2 million users accessing its database each month. AOL is in dispute with start-up Pro Populi over that groups use of the entire CrunchBase dataset in apps that Pro Populi has developed, Pro Populi is being represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Crunchies is a ceremony, run by TechCrunch, which celebrates the most compelling startups, internet. Techcrunch often creates a list of the top startups and the funding they received, twelve categories have been awarded in 2016, including Best New Startup, Best Overall Startup, and Best Mobile App. TechCrunch has more than 8 million followers on Twitter, and more than 2.5 million likes on Facebook, in 2014, TechCrunch Disrupt was featured in an arc of the HBO series Silicon Valley. The characters startup Pied Piper participates on a battle at TechCrunch Disrupt. According to TechCrunch editor Sam OKeefe, the representation of the conference was obscenely accurate. A scandal erupted over the Titstare application, created by participants in a hackathon at Disrupt 2013, in 2011, the site came under fire for possible ethics violations. These included claims that Arringtons investments in certain firms which the site had covered created a conflict of interest, the controversy that ensued eventually led to Arringtons departure, and other writers, including Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy, followed suit. TechCrunch is currently available in English, Chinese and Japanese and it had a French edition, which was folded into TechCrunch. com. Official website TechCrunch Events CrunchBase DEADPOOL
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ZDNet
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ZDNet is a business technology news website published by CBS Interactive, along with TechRepublic and SmartPlanet. The brand was founded on April 1,1991, as a general interest technology portal from Ziff Davis, ZDNet began as a subscription-based digital service called ZiffNet that offered computing information to users of CompuServe. It featured computer industry forums, events, features and searchable archives, initially, ZiffNet was intended to serve as a common place to find content from all Ziff-Davis print publications. As such, ZiffNet was an expansion on an online service called PCMagNet for readers of PC Magazine. Launched in 1988, PCMagNet in turn was the evolution of Ziff Davis first electronic publishing venture, a bulletin board, on June 20,1995, Ziff-Davis announced the consolidation of its online information services under a single name, ZD Net. The service had grown its membership to 275,000 subscribers across six platforms, CompuServe, Prodigy, AT&T Interchange, a few months prior to the name consolidation, Ziff-Davis expanded onto the World Wide Web under the name ZD Net. Dan Farber, former editor-in-chief of PC Week and MacWeek, was named editor-in-chief of the property, by June, the site was recording web traffic of 2.5 million pageviews per week. The site also expanded overseas, initially to France, Germany, in 1997, the website—now the brands flagship property—underwent another redesign that featured topical channels of content. It also marked the change in name from ZD Net to ZDNet, two months prior, the company launched ZDNet News, or ZDNN, the sites first dedicated section to original reportage. The appointment of digital publishing executive Dan Rosensweig as ZDNets first president capped a year of significant change for the brand, in 1998, ZDNet launched Inter@active Investor, or ZDII, a spin-off website for investors that offered financial news and information on technology companies. On May 11,1998, Ziff-Davis launched ZDTV as the first cable channel and website to offer 24-hour programming about computing. The venture, which was owned by Vulcan Enterprises, was supported with a staff of 170 and incorporated ZDNet content on its website. The channel would later become Tech TV, by the end of 1998, ZDNet was the dominant technology brand online. It led its closest rival, CNET, by a 26 percent margin and was the 13th most popular site on the Web, reaching 8.4 million users, the site would reach an additional 600,000 users within a year. In 1999, Ziff-Davis spun ZDNet off as a company and offered it as a tracking stock, ZDZ, to accompany the parent stock. An initial public offering raised $190 million, but the stock was eliminated in early 2000. The new company soon acquired Updates. com, a software upgrade service and it was incorporated into the sites Help Channel. In 1999, ZDNet also launched Tech Life, a network of six consumer-focused tech sites intended to attract parents, music listeners, gadget enthusiasts, gamers and basic users
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The Wall Street Journal
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The Wall Street Journal is an American business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The Journal, along with its Asian and European editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, the newspaper is published in the broadsheet format and online. The Wall Street Journal is the largest newspaper in the United States by circulation, according to the Alliance for Audited Media, the Journal had a circulation of about 2.4 million copies as of March 2013, compared with USA Todays 1.7 million. The newspaper has won 39 Pulitzer Prizes through 2015 and derives its name from Wall Street in the heart of the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. The Journal has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8,1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, the Journal also publishes the luxury news and lifestyle magazine WSJ. They were later aggregated in a daily summary called the Customers Afternoon Letter. In 1896, The Dow Jones Industrial Average was officially launched and it was the first of several indices of stock and bond prices on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1899, the Journals Review & Outlook column, which still today, appeared for the first time. Journalist Clarence Barron purchased control of the company for US$130,000 in 1902, circulation was then around 7,000, Barron and his predecessors were credited with creating an atmosphere of fearless, independent financial reporting—a novelty in the early days of business journalism. In 1921, Barrons, Americas premier financial weekly, was founded, Barron died in 1928, a year before Black Tuesday, the stock market crash that greatly affected the Great Depression in the United States. Barrons descendants, the Bancroft family, would continue to control the company until 2007, the Journal took its modern shape and prominence in the 1940s, a time of industrial expansion for the United States and its financial institutions in New York. Bernard Kilgore was named managing editor of the paper in 1941, under Kilgore, in 1947, that the paper won its first Pulitzer Prize, for William Henry Grimess editorials. In 1970, Dow Jones bought the Ottaway newspaper chain, which at the time comprised nine dailies, later, the name was changed to Dow Jones Local Media Group. In 2007 News Corp. acquired Dow Jones, a luxury lifestyle magazine, was launched in 2008. A complement to the print newspaper, The Wall Street Journal Online, was launched in 1996, in 2003, Dow Jones began to integrate reporting of the Journals print and online subscribers together in Audit Bureau of Circulations statements. In 2007, it was believed to be the largest paid-subscription news site on the Web. Since then, online subscribership has fallen, due in part to rising subscription costs, in May 2008, an annual subscription to the online edition of The Wall Street Journal cost $119 for those who do not have subscriptions to the print edition. By June 2013, the monthly cost for a subscription to the edition was $22.99, or $275.88 annually
