Online Financial Sites in Trouble
from the can't-make-money dept
Business Week takes a look at some of the struggling online financial sites such as MarketWatch and TheStreet.com and points out that they're all losing a ton of money and don't seem to have much of a prospect of surviving as independent companies. TheStreet.com in particular seems to be having trouble keeping executives and figuring out a business model. It would be no surprise at all if a larger content play snaps them up.
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