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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, Transport, Technology, Telecoms, and Utilities. View the full list…

Add comment July 8th, 2007

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 workers and employers seeking global-ready talent. Links to each employer’s job site are included in this free directory of companies that employ more than 45 million workers around the world. Job seekers can search the list or browse it by rank (1-500), industry, country, or company name. View the full list…

1. Wal-Mart Stores, United States - 1,800,000 employees
2. Deutsche Post, Germany - 502,545 employees
3. Siemens Group, Germany - 461,000 employees
4. McDonald’s, United States - 447,000 employees
5. Carrefour, France - 440,479 employees
6. Compass Group, United Kingdom - 410,074 employees
7. United Parcel Service, United States - 407,000 employees
8. Gazprom, Russia - 396,571 employees
9. DaimlerChrysler, Germany - 382,724 employees
10. Hitachi, Japan - 355,879 employees

Add comment March 4th, 2007

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, and redesigns, documented for the past two years. Check out the list…

Add comment February 21st, 2007

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

Add comment February 11th, 2007

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! acquires Inktomi for $235M in December, 2002
6. AOL Time Warner acquires Advertising.com for $435M in June 2004
7. eBay acquires Paypal for $1.5B in 2002
8. Ask Jeeves acquires Interactive Search Holdings for $343M in March 2004
9. Microsoft acquires Hotmail for $400M in 1998
10. aQuantive acquires Razorfish for $160M in June 2004

Add comment February 6th, 2007

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. Intranets & Portals, 11. Mobile Content, 12. Search Engines & Technologies, and 13. Podcasting.

View the 2006 EContent 100 List…

Add comment January 15th, 2007

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 effectiveness. This performance is represented by five critical components: Social Impact, Aspiration & Growth, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainability. The underlying theme is the organization’s ability to analyze tough social and organizational challenges and to craft solutions that create significant improvements over the status quo. Read the full article…

And check out the list of award winning organizations…

Add comment January 15th, 2007

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 the corporate brand. Finally, they allow users to accomplish business-oriented tasks, whether it’s managing a project or making a purchase.

Accenture
Bank of America
Boston Scientific
CA.com
DHL.com
Gates.com
Grainger.com
Steelcase.com
Sun.com
USG.com

Add comment September 27th, 2006

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 AdRelevance. They looked for growth over the past six months in unique users or time spent per person, and also invited several interactive media directors and clients to weigh in, giving their thoughts on which sites they believe are doing it right. The final list mirrors what is happening on the Web: community sites mix with traditional media properties. Some of the oldest sites stand side-by-side with the newest. Download Adweek’s Web Site Hot List PDF…

1. YouTube
2. MySpace
3. The Weather Channel
4. TMZ.com
5. BusinessWeek.com
6. Heavy.com
7. MLB.com
8. Cartoon Network
9. ESPN.com
10. Facebook

Add comment September 19th, 2006

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 Douglas International (CLT)
* Denver International (DIA)
* San Francisco International (SFO)
* Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW)

Add comment August 29th, 2006

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…

Add comment August 29th, 2006

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 film…

Or click here for the full article (subscription may be required).

Add comment July 30th, 2006

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 their thinking and their careers…

Add comment July 30th, 2006

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 elusive but crucial quality. Every company wants its brand to get bigger. The hard part is balancing what the brand already is with a vision of what it would like to be.

Brand value is calculated as the net present value of the earnings that the brand is expected to generate and secure in the future for the time frame from July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006. In order to be included in the top global brands list, a brand must have a minimum brand value of $2.7 billion, achieve about one third of their earnings outside of their home country, have publicly available marketing and financial data, and have a wider public profile beyond their direct customer base.

Add comment July 28th, 2006

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, agency contacts as well as advertising spending by media and brand, sales, earnings and more for the country’s 100 largest advertisers. Read Ad Age’s annual Leading National Advertisers Report overview and download the 103-page Leading Advertisers Profiles…

Add comment July 14th, 2006

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, six major themes flickered into view. From the rise of peer production to the end of carbon pollution, they tell us where the world is heading. These are the companies leading the way. New this year: Verizon, Lenovo, InfoSpace, and more…

Add comment July 12th, 2006

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 being watched most closely by corporate executives, as well as sales, marketing, and business development professionals, who represent a large portion of Hoover’s customers.

Add comment July 8th, 2006

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 executives, entrepreneurs, and cutting-edge innovators who are setting today’s business agenda…

Add comment July 5th, 2006

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 resulting list was ranked using four financial criteria: growth in revenue, profit, and operating cash flow during the past three years, and the 12-month stock return as of Dec. 31, 2005. Cash flow growth counts for 40% of a company’s ranking. Each of the other criteria counts for 20%. View the full list…

Add comment June 13th, 2006

The Fastest-Growing New Businesses in America

Entrepreneur and PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 12th annual Hot 100 companies are leading the pack in fast growth, big sales and smart business. What do these companies have in common? They’re all less than five years old; their founders still run the show; they have fewer than 1,000 employees; and their annual sales exceed $1 million.

Add comment May 22nd, 2006

25 Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing The World

The Fast Company / Monitor Group 2006 Social Capitalist Award winners include 25 entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. These amazing organizations have found a better way to do good: They’re using the disciplines of the corporate world to tackle daunting social problems.

Add comment May 15th, 2006

The Top 100 Digital Content Industry Companies

The EContent 100 list offers a look at top companies in the digital content industry that show how far econtent reaches into our work and our lives and how the tools to make the most of it matter more than ever. This year witnessed a number of promising newcomers joining the fray as well as significant signs of maturity in leveraging XML, RSS, Open Source, and mobility, to name but a few. Blogs are growing up out of their origins as digital diaries to serve as full-fledged media outlets, whether written by “everyman”, media professionals, or CEOs. Wikis made inroads into the enterprise as well.

Add comment May 15th, 2006

The Next Internet 25

A new Web revolution is picking up steam, and the next Google or Microsoft could emerge from the companies that are in the vanguard. The Next Net creates endless possibilities for entrepreneurs and established players alike to take advantage of the Web’s new power. They are building on the success of early standard-bearers — Flickr, MySpace, Wikipedia — but also moving beyond those pioneers in creative and fascinating ways. View the 25 companies in five categories Business 2.0 chose, whose approaches help illuminate where the Web is headed and where the opportunities lie…

Add comment May 15th, 2006

The 2006 FORTUNE 500 list

The FORTUNE 500 list is an annual ranking of America’s largest corporations by revenues. Its companies employ more than 24 million people, about 16% of working Americans. This year, FORTUNE 500 companies overall brought in a record $9.1 trillion in revenues and $610 billion in profits. And while the economy as a whole grew 3.5% last year, FORTUNE 500 companies did much better, increasing their revenues by a healthy 15.4%. See the full list, including detailed company profiles and contact information…

Add comment May 4th, 2006

50 Leaders, Innovators & Technology Pioneers

The Fast 50 is Fast Company magazine’s worldwide search for ordinary people doing extraordinary things. 50 people in business, technology, government, the arts, and beyond who are writing the history of the next 10 years.

Add comment April 2nd, 2006