‘Business’ Archives
75 Best Business Blogs of 2009
What defined business in 2009? Bankers and bailouts, for one. The proliferation of social media. A radical shift in the ways we find and accept jobs. A redefinition of the real estate, credit, and media markets. In a word, 2009 was full of fluctuations. And nobody covered, commented on, and analyzed them better than the 75 blogs on [...]
100 Best Global Brands 2009
Google, Amazon, and Zara are among the top gainers in BusinessWeek and Interbrand’s annual ranking of the “Best Global Brands.” UBS slipped dramatically down the list, falling 31 places to No. 72, losing 50% of its brand value. Coca-Cola remains the No. 1 brand for the ninth year in a row. For the ninth consecutive year, BusinessWeek [...]
50 Most Powerful Women in Business
Fortune Magazine’s 2009 list of America’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business highlights the women who have a "secret weapon" in the business world. Fortune ranks the women not on their salaries, but by their past successes and ability to effect change in their companies. Read the full article... 1. Indra Nooyi - PepsiCo 2. Irene [...]
World’s Best Companies 2009
From Japanese electronics to Spanish textiles, the companies that made this list are thriving in the recession and preparing for beyond. As the economic outlook brightens, those that have worked hard to survive the tough times of the past year are best prepared to seize new opportunities. It is these enterprises that have risen to the top of the [...]
TechCrunch’s Top Ten IPO Candidates For 2010
It’s been a long drought for IPOs, but venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs are hopeful that 2010 will be the year they rain down on the Valley once gain. Below is TechCrunch's list of the top ten IPO candidates for 2010 in the technology industry, after conducting an informal survey of top VCs and angel investors. These are the company [...]
Mediaweek.com’s Top Stories of 2009
2009 was a year of great economic and media industry upheaval—and Mediaweek.com brought readers thorough, up-to-date news coverage of all the ad-supported media industries. The downturn did not spare any specific medium—and as you'll find on this report, the 2009 Top Ten Most-Read Stories on Mediaweek.com, all media are present. 1. [...]
The 50 Best Business Blogs
Internet blogs are taking on big corporations and winning. As the bloggerati continue to set the agenda London's Times Online provides a list of the 50 top blogs in the following categories: Economics, Banking & Finance, Construction & Property, Engineering, Health, Industrials, Leisure, Media & Marketing, Natural Resources, Retail, Law, [...]
The World’s 500 Largest Corporate Employers
Giant retailer Wal-Mart Stores, with 1.8 million employees, tops the first published list of the world's 500 largest corporate employers. Home to nearly half of the companies on the list, the United States boasts the largest employers in 13 out of 28 industries, according to the study by My Global Career, a blog-based careers site for global [...]
List of Online Magazine Initiatives
Magazine Publishers of America is the industry association for consumer magazines. The MPA represents more than 240 domestic publishing companies with approximately 1,400 titles, from 80 international companies. They maintain a continually updated list of magazine website digital initiatives - everything from new site features, to partnerships, [...]
Fortune 500 Business Blogs
Two sites are collecting links to Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs (active public blogs by company employees about the company and its products). Ross Mayfield of Socialtext.net in collaboration with Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine / TheLongTail.com And BlogBusinessSummitt.com
Top 10 Best Internet Acquisitions of All Time
From HipMojo.com, the ten "best" Internet acquisitions of all time. Read the full article... 1. News Corporation acquires MySpace-parent Intermix for $580M in May 2005 2. New York Times acquires About.com for $410M in February, 2005 3. Google acquires Sprinks in October 2003 4. Yahoo! acquires Overture for $1.63B in July, 2003 5. Yahoo! [...]
Top 100 Digital Content Industry Companies 2006
EContent presents the 100 companies that lead the digital content industry today. Judging categories include: 1. Content Commerce, 2. Content Security, 3. Blogging, 4. Classification & Taxonomy, 5. Collaboration, 6. Content Creation, Production, & Digital Publishing, 7. Content Delivery, 8. Content Management, 9. Fee-Based Info Services, 10. [...]
43 Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing The World
The 43 organizations that received the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards for 2007 have found a better way to do good: They're using the disciplines of the corporate world to tackle daunting social problems. The Social Capitalist Awards define strong performance as a combination of both social impact and organizational [...]
10 Great B2B Web Sites 2006
Each year, BtoBOnline.com provides a behind-the-scenes look at 10 b-to-b Web sites that excel at communicating with customers and prospects. These sites offer in-depth information about products, services and the company. They are easy to navigate, enabling users to find what they want quickly and efficiently. Their design is clean and embodies [...]
Adweek’s Website Hot List 2006
To determine this year’s Hot List list, Adweek evaluated sites that create content, as opposed to aggregating it. The top ten list includes four sites that rely, for the most part or in whole, on user-generated content, the biggest online trend advertisers currently face. Adweek reviewed data on approximately 400 sites from Nielsen/NetRatings [...]
The 5 Best Airports for Business Travelers
Thanks to terminal makeovers executed with business travelers in mind, layovers are becoming a less hellish experience. To find out which airports are the most business-friendly, Business 2.0 quizzed travelers, analyzed stats, and cross-checked passenger polls. Read the full story... * Minneapolis-St. Paul International (MSP) * Charlotte [...]
Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies 2006
Each year, Inc. magazine produces the Inc. 500, a list of the nation's fastest growing private companies. Learn about this year's top 25 companies, discover success stories of some of this year's honorees, or take the Inc. 500 quiz to test your knowledge of lists past and present...
New-Media Power List
As videos, blogs and Web pages created by amateurs remake the entertainment landscape, unknown directors, writers and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence. Check out the list of new media moguls from WSJ.com. Categories include podcasts, amateur video, social networking, music, blogging, photography, TV and [...]
Favorite Books of Successful People
BusinessWeek Online asked over 30 prominent professors and business professionals about their favorite books, business or otherwise. The resulting list is a diverse tip sheet with something for everyone -- from Kotler to Kerouac, fantasy to finance. Browse around and discover what made these books inspirational, instructive, or influential in [...]
The 100 Best Global Brands
Google, Starbucks, Motorola, and eBay are among this year's top gainers in BusinessWeek's annual ranking of The Best Global Brands. For the sixth consecutive year, BusinessWeek has teamed up with Interbrand, a leading brand consultancy, to publish a ranking of the top 100 global brands by brand value. The Best Global Brands ranking measures an [...]
Ad Age’s Leading National Advertisers Report
Procter & Gamble Co. rode the acquisition of Gillette Co. to become the nation's largest advertiser in 2005, spending $4.61 billion in all forms of advertising and promotion to outdistance runner-up General Motors Corp. at $4.35 billion. The 100 Leading National Advertiser Profiles contain the details of lead marketing personnal, brands, agencies, [...]
Wired’s Most Innovative Companies 2006
Wired magazine starts by looking for the basics: strategic vision, global reach, killer technology. To land a spot on their annual Wired 40 list, a business also needs the X-factor -- a hunger for new ideas and an impatience to put them into practice. Such companies inevitably become trendsetters, literally: As Wired debated the list this year, [...]
Hoover’s Hottest 100 Companies
Hoovers.com contains a database of over 16.5 million companies, with comprehensive coverage of 43,000 of the world's top business enterprises. The Hoover's 100 is a monthly list of the companies most searched on Hoover's.com. Derived by tracking the search requests of Hoover's subscribers, The Hoover's 100 provides insight on which companies are [...]
50 Business People Who Matter
Business 2.0's goal was to identify people whose ideas, products, and business insights are changing the world we live in today - those who are reshaping our future by inventing important new technologies, exploiting emerging opportunities, or throwing their weight around in ways that are sure to make everyone else take notice. Meet the [...]
100 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies
Tech is back - and the sector's fastest-growing public companies are leading the charge. Business 2.0 screened more than 2,000 tech companies that have been publicly traded on a U.S. stock exchange for at least three years, have a market capitalization of at least $50 million, and have had positive operating cash flow over the past 12 months. The [...]
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