Monster moves from the NASDAQ to the NYSE today with the ticker MWW. In seeing the NYSE ad bragging about the switch in the WSJ today, I was reminded that I hadn’t looked up Monster’s stock price recently. Here is the 2-year chart for MWW:
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Once again, the number of stories to write about has outpaced my ability to keep up. So here’s a quick list of a few stories from the past week or two…
1) Even with an increase in TV advertising revenue due to the Olympics and heavy politcal advertsing, Gannett’s net income for the 3rd quarter dropped [...]
LinkUp, arguably the best national jobs site on the web today, has released a widget that allows any blogger (or any site for that matter) to publish jobs on their blog or web site. The widget is available here, and can be customized to publish only those jobs that the hosting site wants to publish [...]
1) TechCrunch recently wrote about the worsening situation for daily newspapers and the abysmal 2nd quarter they have had.
2) The Economist reports that daily newspapers in emerging economies are thriving. As Thomas Barnett points out, the logic is that:
The demand for news tends to go up as people enter the workforce, earn more money, invest [...]
One of the recent changes we have made in examining LinkUp jobs classifieds data is to report the number of new and total jobs listed on the site by job category and compare them to the previous month. As the chart below indicates, the 3 categories that showed the largest gains in August were Education [...]
With increasing frequency, seismic shock waves have been reverberating through the media world, grabbing headlines and shifting the way people think about the drastically altered landscape. These might, for example, include daily newspapers announcing massive layoffs as they inch closer to bankruptcy, the introduction of technology that allows people to rent, download and watch feature-length [...]
Apple delivered a valuable lesson on corporate ethics with its recent decision regarding the ‘I Am Rich’ iPhone application. Unfortunately, the lesson was apparently lost on the Employment Guide.
With the release of version 2.0 for the iPhone, developers began releasing new iPhone applications via the Apple App Store. It didn’t take long before Apple was [...]
Some nice articles today on JobDig and LinkUp from Cheezhead and ERE’s Michael Glenn.
Thanks for the coverage!
Monster announced yesterday that it had acquired Trovix for $72.5 million. Trovix has developed a web-based applicant tracking and candidate matching system. The company had raised at least $18 million in 2 rounds of financing. In December of 2005, the company raised $5.25 million from U.S. Venture Partners and 3i, along with some angels. Then, [...]
For the 5th straight month, job openings posted online dropped in July according to the Conference Board. The number of online postings (3.86 million vacancies) was 5.4% below July of last year. I am not sure how the Conference Board generates and measures the data, but I have to imagine that it is imperfect at [...]