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Alacra Web Sites

  • Alacra.com
    Our corporate site with detailed information on products, partners and people.
  • Alacra Store
    Our e-commerce website, enabling business information users to find and purchase content.
  • AlacraWiki
    A guide to the people and organizations which make up the business information industry. Organized as a wiki, enabling users to edit or add information.
  • AlacraBlog
    Our corporate blog, authored primarily by CEO Steve Goldstein.
  • Research Recap
    A site that spotlights compelling equity, credit, economic, market, industry and academic research.

Contact

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  • Website: http://www.alacra.com

One-Line Bio

Steve Goldstein, CEO of Alacra will be the primary author of this blog. Authors of guest postings will be identified at the end of their posts.

Biography

Steve Goldstein and Mike Angle started Data Downlink Corporation in July of 1996. The name of the company was changed to Alacra in June 2001. Don Roll joined the company in July of 1997 as Managing Director for Europe. Steve, Mike, Don (who have worked together on and off for over 20 years) and a handful of other Alacra-ites are refugees from Knight-Ridder's Business Information Services division which at one time included Dialog, Knight-Ridder Financial, Technimetrics and The Journal of Commerce.

Alacra provides a variety of information services to financial institutions and professional service firms.

Interests

This blog is interested in all issues in the business information space, including search, new content, desktop applications, venture funding, M&A and the role of information professionals.