Differentiation is critical for news providers looking to avoid commoditization. Automated journalism enables ALM to stand out by being first with its news alerts and creating niche content specific to lawyers’ practice areas.
Publishers that focus on making data a bona fide research artifact create a compelling reason for authors to choose their journals. Wiley’s pilot initiative serves as a case study for the greater industry on delivering an alternative type of content that can potentially replace the core type.
ZoomInfo’s purchase won’t move the market share needle immediately, but it provides a lesson for other companies in the data, information, and analytics economy on not only the importance of foundation data but how it is gathered.
Refinitiv acquires GIACT to boost its digital identity and verification service in KYC screening. This move demonstrates the financial information provider’s increasing appetite for front-line visibility into fraud.
The strategic rivalry between the US and China has led to unprecedented strains in the relationship and an increasingly difficult environment for foreign information businesses operating there. Don’t expect much to change any time soon.
Now that election day has passed in the US, researchers will be eager to scrutinize social media political advertising spend. Facebook is taking steps to block one effort, and the outcome could impact the broader media industry.
Financial results from the largest US textbook providers show the extent to which COVID-19 has accelerated digital take-up, generating growth for some and losses for others.
So far, transformative agreements have excluded highly selective journals. Springer Nature and Max Planck Digital Library have found a way to include them through an initiative that will change the scholarly communications landscape if it takes root.
FactSet’s acquisition of Truvalue Labs offers the financial information giant the opportunity to leapfrog its competitors in the sustainability assessment space and reveal how AI can uncover new insights from ESG data.
Reducing customer churn boosts the bottom line. In today’s challenging economic environment, look for tools that score customers across many variables and mine not only highly structured data but unstructured data as well.
Not long after previous acquisitions to gain background information on companies and people, Moody’s buys a media distributor to analyze the news on these subjects. The move demonstrates the need to invest in unstructured data analytics to enable next-level insights.
Data access and sharing are being democratized all across the scholarly ecosystem. This is a net positive development for the end-user, but market players need to act now if they want to stay relevant.
Days ahead of the presidential election, the US Government files its biggest case against a tech giant since it pursued Microsoft in 1998. It could have a lasting impact on the regulatory framework for internet businesses.
D&B’s acquisition of its partner Bisnode brings direct access to data and customers and the opportunity for faster growth and higher margins as the pandemic boosts demands for data and analytics in trade credit and sales and marketing. But it will need to execute well to reap the rewards.
New data provides a gloomier picture of declining US higher education enrolment, but there’s plenty of business model innovation that should drive take-up of digital tools for remote learning.
Preprints have been in the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic, with researchers rushing to share their latest findings. Equipping them with tools to edit their own work will help ensure that speed does not compromise quality.