Giving Companies News They Can Use

from the and-now,-a-word-from-our-sponsor... dept

Mon, Mar 1st 2004 3:13am — Mike Masnick

While we go on here about various topics, we don't often mention the fact that we're able to keep this public Techdirt site going due to the business side of Techdirt, where we supply fully customized, private daily news and analysis to various corporations around the world. CIO Magazine has a nice little writeup about Techdirt Corporate Intelligence and our daily news and analysis service that we've been offering for many years. The article is short and sweet, but does a good job talking about our business.

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