This industry encompasses publishers, software developers, on-line information services, and other businesses that package and sell information products for a profit.
Companies that have established iPad-based information sites include television networks, computer companies, on-line information services, magazines and even individuals creating electronic newspapers of their own.
Mo founded the company in 1999 and before that worked as an executive for Asia at Teleres, a venture of Dow Jones & Co. and AEGON US that provides on-line commercial real estate information services.
JR, the principal Japanese train line, offers an information service in English, Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., (81-3) 3423-0111, for schedules and fares, including reserved seats.
Raytheon expects that within five years data security will be the largest of the seven product lines in Raytheon's $2.7 billion information services division.
Last year the company turned a modest profit selling its decade-old Knight-Ridder Financial, an on-line business news and information service, but the competition there is ferocious.
But competing broadband services sold by cable operators have been classified as "information services," which are not subject to line-sharing regulations, so ISPs cannot resell access.
Since cable transmissions are considered "information services," operators are not subject to the same regulation as phone companies and usually don't have to share their lines.
"It opens the door to information services.
Would that be information, services or food?
Joint information services committe.
