About this Video
This video is from the Future of Business Media conference, which focuses on the future of the business and trade media industry, with all the changes brought along by digital media and consolidation activity in the industry.
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More information is flowing more freely to more people than ever, on everything from classic finance sites to blogs, Blackberrys and discussion boards. We’ll take a close look at how the individual investor is empowered and what it takes to compete as a business and finance information provider today. Can higher-end paid service providers stay in their high-margin business?
Moderator
Staci Kramer, PaidContent.org
Panelists
David Jackson CEO, Seeking Alpha
David Jackson is the founder and CEO of Seeking Alpha, a provider of stock market opinion and analysis from blogs, money managers and investment newsletters, and a provider of its own financial content. After working for five years as a technology research analyst for Morgan Stanley in New York, David left in early 2003 to manage money (long/short) and explore new approaches to financial publishing, ultimately leading to the creation of Seeking Alpha. Earlier in his career, he worked in technology venture funding and macro-economics (HM Treasury in London and The Bank of Israel).
Scott Moore SVP Yahoo!
Scott Moore heads Yahoo!’s News and Information division, which includes news, finance, sports, tech and lifestyle. Scott joined Yahoo! in 2005 from Microsoft, where he was general manager of the MSN programming group, managing editorial, design and product development for four publishing teams, and concurrently serving as president of MSNBC.com. Previously, Moore was publisher of Slate and has also held positions as advertising manager for Expedia Travel and business development manager for Sidewalk. He is also a past member of the board of directors for the Online Publishers Association.
Patrick Spain CEO, HighBeam Research
Patrick Spain created HighBeam Research as Alacritude, LLC, in August 2002 to serve as a vehicle for building an online research service for individuals. Spain is a cofounder and was former chairman and CEO of Hoover’s, a leading online provider of company information. Spain led Hoover’s from an unprofitable private book publishing company with a few hundred thousand dollars of revenue to a publicly traded profitable media and business information company with $31 million in revenues. Prior to Hoover’s, Spain worked in the telecommunications industry, first as a lawyer and then as a business executive, and as a real estate developer and an economic consultant.
Kathy Yates CEO, AllBusiness.com
Kathy Yates joined AllBusiness in late July 2005, after serving as President and COO of MarketWatch.com, where she oversaw all day-to-day operations and actively managed the growth of the company to $80 million in revenues annually. She led the completion and integration of a major acquisition (Pinnacor, Inc.) and actively participated in the sale of MarketWatch to Dow Jones. Previous roles include founder and Vice President/Business Development for Knight Ridder Digital, founding Board Member of CareerPath (now CareerBuilder) and Classified Ventures, and Vice President/Product Development for Women.com. In 2004, the San Francisco Business Times named her one of the Bay Area’s 100 most influential women in business.
