Details appear in the Technology Briefing column as Business Day expands its coverage of technology.
The Charles Schwab Corporation agreed to buy the SoundView Technology Group for $321.3 million to expand its research coverage of technology and telecommunications companies.
The coverage of technology has spawned many innovations in the news business, but now it seems to be the source of a particularly problematic one.
From the successful TEDxObserver events, to the growing coverage of technology, science and ideas in The New Review and throughout the paper, Observer Tech Monthly will champion the opportunities, the anxieties and the excitement which technology creates.
And the new economy has spawned a spate of magazines specializing in coverage of technology, e-commerce and the Internet, the so-called Seven Dots: Business 2.0, eCompany Now, Fast Company, The Industry Standard, Red Herring, Upside and Wired.
He revised its on-air look, ordered increased coverage of technology and put a heavier emphasis on the West Coast economic engine and extended the hours of operation from 18 to 24.
To fill holes in its coverage of technology, communications and health care, Bernstein recently hired four analysts -- one each for software, computer services, medical-device makers and international drug companies.
More important, it will repackage and supplement its coverage of technology and the new economy in a new section called Networking, with specialized columns on subjects like advertising in Europe, and add about 14 reporters, bringing the total to more than 80.
Ball and I completely agree that the coverage of technology increasingly requires specialization.
