Business.com
Business.com (www.business.com) is a powerful and essential tool that gives people of all occupations the ability to find the business information they need, quickly and efficiently, from a single source. By understanding how to harness today's business information using the Internet, Business.com will become the most comprehensive online business directory and search engine, providing the resources needed to find business information. Along with strategic investors The Financial Times Group (a division of Pearson plc), Cahners Business Informaion (a member of Reed Elsevier plc group), IndustryClick (a subsidiary of Primedia Incorporated) and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Business.com's content providers include: Marketwatch.com Inc., Multex.com Incorporated, Primark Corporation, Reuters and Thomson Investors Network.
ebrary.com
ebrary is creating a rich collection of authoritative and valuable content from within books, journals, maps, periodicals, and other digital document-type material, some of which was previously inaccessible via the Web. Internet users visiting the ebrary.com site will gain access to this content without having to obtain a membership or pay subscription fees.
At ebrary, users will be able to take advantage of advanced search technologies to more easily find the information they need. With ebrary's innovative InfoTools, users will be able to access more easily relevant information that exists on the Internet to gain quicker understanding of the material they are researching. ebrary also provides its patrons with a new way to acquire information, by enabling the copying or printing of relevant portions of content for a photocopier-like fee. In this manner ebrary not only provides publishers and information providers with new revenues but also increases the exposure of these copyright-protected titles in a way that encourages the sale of books. With the ebrary model, participating publishers and information providers can control the amount of access users will be granted to each of their books.
Internet Broadcasting Systems (IBS)
McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Group, a business of The McGraw-Hill Companies, announced an agreement to develop Web Channels – local news and information Web sites – for its four ABC network-affiliated television stations with Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. (IBS) www.ibsys.com. IBS is leading the convergence of local television and the Internet. The Web Channels will be managed by full time teams of Internet journalists employed by IBS who will work directly within the television stations' newsrooms creating up-to-date breaking news and cutting-edge video feeds.
As part of the agreement, The McGraw-Hill Companies is investing in IBS through McGraw-Hill Ventures Inc.
iBlast Networks
iBlast Networks www.iblast.com is a broadcaster owned, nationwide digital content distribution network utilizing aggregated portions of the newly allocated digital television spectrum to deliver broadband data to PC's and other receiving devices. iBlast will combine the inherent qualities of the existing broadcast television system with the McGraw-Hill Broadcasting's technological, marketing, programming and networking capabilities to create the iBlast branded network.
netLibrary
netLibrary (www.netlibrary.com) is a leading provider of electronic book technology and services to publishers, educational and corporate libraries and other book industry participants. Through its technology and services platform, it creates, sells and manages electronic books while protecting the copyrights of the digital content. netLibrary's electronic books can be securely delivered to audiences over the Internet and corporate intranets for use with different reader devices and reader software products. It offers publishers and customers an end-to-end solution, including the conversion, copyright protection, hosting, management and distribution of electronic books.
