Binding: Software
Brand: Dow Jones
EAN: 0078908000187
Label: Dow Jones and Company, Inc.
Manufacturer: Dow Jones and Company, Inc.
Packaged Height: 40 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 950 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 10 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 550 hundredths-inches
Platform: Macintosh
Platform: Windows
Platform: Not Machine Specific
Publisher: Dow Jones and Company, Inc.
Release Date: 2000-10-03
Studio: Dow Jones and Company, Inc.
Feature:
- Scoops and updated news all day, every day.
- In depth research on nearly 30,000 companies.
- News alerts via email, cell phone, instant message or straight to desktop.
- Markets Data Center, with cutting-edge tools and extensive stock listings.
- Journal archives available only to subscribers.
Product Description:
It's a newspaper, it's a Web site--it's all of the information that comes rolled up in every edition of The Wall Street Journal and much more, available online. Anyone who wants to stay on top of U.S. and international news, especially economic and technology-oriented stories, will find The Wall Street Journal Online to be a valuable asset. Forbes has called it "simply the best business news site on the Web." The interactive Journal delivers stock quotes on demand, continually updated news, a customized news- and portfolio-tracking service, access to extensive archives, and "briefing books" for 22,000 companies and more than 7,000 U.S. mutual funds. Readers who are familiar with the print edition will not be surprised by the interactive Journal's personality: it looks a lot like the paper version, and it's just as staid as its paper counterpart. Navigation is intuitive and ease of use is... easy. Unlike the print journal, this version follows you to work and around the world. All you need is your password and laptop to carry this invaluable business partner to any meeting, anywhere. --Stefanie Durbin
Customer Reviews:
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Inflation, 2008-08-31
I've now been a subscriber to the online version of the paper for five years. My original subscription was $69. In subsequent years, it has gone to $79, $89, $99, and this year, I'm informed $119. That's a 71% increase in five years. Slightly more than general inflation.
I will echo other reviewers' problems with customer service. Last year, I got the e-mail about the automatic renewal. I called the 800 number to tell them I didn't want them to automatically renew me, and to cancel it as of the expiration date. (At the time, there was talk that Rupert Murdoch would make it a free paper. The customer service representative would not guarantee me that I would get a pro rata refund if that happened.) I then subsequently got two more e-mails telling me that I needed to update my credit card information for the renewal. Both times, I had to call back, being on hold for 10 minutes each time, to AGAIN, tell them I didn't want to renew. I finally did renew after a customer retention representative offered me 15 months at my previous years $89.
However, I'm probably not going to renew this year for a different reason. I have been watching the paper closely since Murdoch took it over. I have noticed a change in the paper, from being the business paper of record, to more of a general-interest newspaper. There is much more content on politics and non-business than in the past. Checking out the blogs, which is one of the best reasons for an online subscription -- they have added the following titles: China Journal, Political Perceptions, Washington Wire, Baghdad Life , Health Blog and Storm Tracker. What do these have to do with business?
If I want that content, I can go to the New York Times, Washington Post or LA Times. I want business news from the Wall Street Journal. Sadly like many of the things, I may have to go overseas for my business news. The Financial Times is looking like my business subscription.
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