Editing Dow Jones & Company (section)

===NewsPicks USA===

In March 2017, Dow Jones and NewsPicks Inc., a Japanese firm that develops and operates a business news platform of the same name, established a joint venture called NewsPicks USA, LLC.<ref name="uzabase.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.uzabase.com/en/press/newspicks-dowjones-en/|title=NewsPicks establishes a new Joint Venture with Dow Jones|website=uzabase.com|access-date=December 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210012945/http://www.uzabase.com/en/press/newspicks-dowjones-en/|archive-date=December 10, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> The joint venture is headed by CEO Ken Breen, who is currently the Senior Vice President, Commercial, for the Dow Jones Media Group, together with Chairman [[Yusuke Umeda]], who is also the Director of NewsPicks Inc.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dowjones.com/team/ken-breen/|title=Dow Jones|website=DowJones.com|access-date=December 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118174706/https://www.dowjones.com/team/ken-breen/|archive-date=November 18, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="uzabase.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uzabase.com/en/press/new-management-team-en/|title=Uzabase, Inc. announces change in Chief Executive Officer|website=uzabase.com|access-date=December 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209043909/http://www.uzabase.com/en/press/new-management-team-en/|archive-date=December 9, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The joint venture launched the English version of the [[NewsPicks]] platform for the US market on November 13, 2017. Similar to the original Japanese edition, the US edition of NewsPicks combines business news from sources like ''The Wall Street Journal'', Bloomberg, and Reuters with social networking features, such as comments on news articles from top-ranked business professionals from around the world ("ProPickers").<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/dow-jones-launches-newspicks-revolutionize-quality-content-curation/|title=Dow Jones|website=DowJones.com|access-date=December 21, 2017}}</ref> The platform currently has a smartphone app for the iPhone with plans for release on Android in the future.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newspicks.us/about/|title=NewsPicks USA – About|website=NewsPicks.us|access-date=December 21, 2017}}</ref>

The venture was dissolved in October 2018 with the Japanese parent company retaining full ownership.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ユーザベース＜3966＞、Dow Jonesとの合弁を解消し、米国版「NewsPicks」会社を子会社化 {{!}} M＆A Online – M&Aをもっと身近に。 |url=https://maonline.jp/news/20181005b |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=maonline.jp |language=ja}}</ref>