Oh, Please, Bloomberg, You Can't Afford To Buy LinkedIn
Bloomberg LP is arguably the second most successful media and information company in the world (after Google).Bloomberg LP is an almost unfathomably wealthy company, with $8 billion in annual revenue...
View ArticleWith Just $250,000 In The Bank, This Startup Says It Can Deliver News 15...
Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters can charge banks, hedge funds, and traders thousands of dollars per terminal user per year because both companies break tradeable news faster than anyone else on the...
View ArticleSan Francisco Office Costs Soar The Most In The World
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of occupying office space in San Francisco soared the most of any market in the world as technology companies such as Salesforce.com and Mozilla Corp. fueled leasing in...
View ArticleDavid Tepper Just Tried To Smooth Over One Of The Biggest Feuds In Financial...
Legendary hedge fund manager David Tepper is on Squawk Box this morning, and it's a special treat.Aside from the fact that his $16 billion fund is up 25% net, the last time Tepper was on in 2010 his...
View ArticleREPORT: Deaths From Guns To Exceed Deaths By Traffic Accidents In 2015
By 2015 more people will be killed by guns than by traffic accidents, according to a startling chart compiled by Bloomberg Government's Alex Tribou.Motor vehicle deaths have declined 22 percent since...
View ArticleBloomberg Businessweek's Cover Brilliantly Illustrates How Wall Street Sees...
It's no secret that Wall Street doesn't understand, or have much respect, for the way things are being handled in Washington.That's the topic of Bloomberg Businessweek's lead story this week, and the...
View ArticleThe 100 Most Successful Hedge Funds Of 2012
The February 2013 edition of Bloomberg Markets Magazine features its ranking of the top 100 large hedge fund managers in the world.Unlike last year when the most successful hedge funds were a variety...
View ArticleAlmost All Of Wall Street Got The 2012 Market Calls Wrong
From John Paulson’s call for a collapse in Europe to Morgan Stanley’s warning that U.S. stocks would decline, Wall Street got little right in its prognosis for the year just ended.Paulson, who manages...
View ArticleEvery New High Tech Job Translates To 4.3 More New Hires
Bloomberg's Betty Liu reports that every tech job created in 2011 spurred 4.3 additional new hires. This massive multiplier effect for high tech jobs has been a boon during the continued U.S. economic...
View ArticleSan Francisco's 'Mansion Discounts' Are Luring Tech Millionaires
Jeff Paster, a developer of luxury homes in California’s Marin County, couldn’t find a buyer for the brand-new waterfront mansion he listed in January for $45 million.He’s expecting that one will turn...
View ArticleMillions Of People Are Getting Out From Underwater, As Home Prices Rise...
Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Maggie Medved was stuck with her Phoenix house for two years after the market crash wiped out the equity in the property. Last year, as prices in the area rose by the most in the...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Puts A Baguette Sandwich On Its French Menu
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- McDonald’s Corp. has put a baguette sandwich on its menu in France in an attempt to appeal to local tastes, and it has won the approval of a veteran French chef.“I’m lovin’ it,”...
View Article27-Year-Old Box CEO Plans To Hire 300 More People, IPO In 2014
Box Inc., the Web-storage provider with more than 140,000 business customers, is planning to hold its initial public offering in 2014, Chief Executive Officer Aaron Levie said yesterday in an...
View ArticlePE Firm Lines Up $15 Billion To Take Dell Private
Silver Lake Management LLC and partners are close to lining up about $15 billion in funds for a buyout of Dell Inc., the third-biggest maker of personal computers, said people familiar with the...
View ArticleYelp Is Adding Health-Inspection Scores To Reviews
Yelp Inc., the business review site, will add health scores to information it provides about restaurants, part of a push to be more useful to consumers and local governments while promoting public...
View ArticleHere's What New York City's First 'Micro Apartments' For Singles Will Look Like
This morning, Mayor Bloomberg announced the winning design for the 300-square-foot "micro apartments" that are intended to create affordable housing for singles in New York City.The project is called...
View ArticleBloomberg's New Billionaires Page Will Let You Track The World's Richest Like...
Bloomberg has an amazing team of reporters hunting down the world's billionaires. Some of these super wealthy are out in the open and living opulently, others are hidden and living modestly.Veteran...
View ArticleThe Fight Over New York's Jumbo Soda Ban Is Becoming A Civil Rights Issue
When the mayor of New York city decided to take on as powerful a lobby as the fizzy drinks industry with a proposed ban on oversized sugary sodas, the furore that ensued was entirely predictable....
View ArticleNazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels' Step-Grandchildren Are All...
The step-grandchildren of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels are billionaires, although their wealth comes mostly from their biological relatives, Bloomberg's David de Jong reports.Here's how the...
View ArticleThese Are The 22 Most Attractive Emerging Markets For Investors
The March edition of Bloomberg Markets Magazine features its ranking of the best emerging markets for investors. A key takeaway: Bloomberg indicates that the BRIC nations aren't as attractive as they...
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