Cap IQ in the News

The headline in Tuesday's Financial Times was "We were angry, arrogant bankers."  (Sorry, subscribers only.) The article profiled Steve Turner and Randall Winn of Capital IQ (Neal Goldman, the third founder got a mention too) and described how the company overcame tremendous obstacles before being acquired by S&P for $200+ million in 2004. In an extremely crowded market - Thomson, Reuters, Bloomberg, FactSet - Cap IQ built a very impressive franchise, even if it was, as Turner remarked, "backward-ass." 
Cap IQ was back in the news today announcing a new free website called Company Insight Center in partnership with sister company Business Week. The site is well constructed and covers over 42,000 public companies and 322,000 private companies, including Alacra. The business descriptions are pretty good and there is excellent coverage of officers and directors and their relationships.  Of the ad-supported sites that provide company information Company Insight Center may be the most comprehensive.