Bloomberg Businessweek Premiers Its Made-For-Netflix Hank Paulson Documentary...
On Thursday Bloomberg Businessweek will premier a documentary on former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson called “Hank: Five Years From the Brink,” says the New York Times. The anguish and stress of...
View ArticleBloomberg's Sending Around A Memo Informing Their Staff Of The First Newsroom...
This is what happens when your media company has exploded from 1,500 to 2,050 employees in five years — you hire some more people to manage them all.Matt Winkler, editor and chief, and founder of of...
View ArticleBloomberg Fans' 5-Year Wait For A New Mobile App Is Finally Over
For the first time in five years, Bloomberg has redesigned its mobile app, and millions of Bloomberg mobile users will be upgrading today.When the iPhone first launched in 2007, there was no app store....
View ArticleAmericans Chugged Beer To Get Through The Recession, But Wine's Made A Huge...
They say vice is recession proof.But that appears to depend on what you're drinking. Here, via Bloomberg Editor Michael McDonough, is a chart showing U.S. personal consumption expenditure on beer and...
View ArticleHedge Funds Are Shorting The Market Now More Than They Have All Year
According to reporting by Bloomberg, bearish bets by hedge funds have reached their highest level of the year. After being squeezed on their shorts over the past four years as equities rallied, a...
View ArticleBloomberg Businessweek Captures The HealthCare.gov Failure In One Brutal Cover
In one brutal cover image, Bloomberg Businessweek has captured the essence of the disaster that has been the rollout of HealthCare.gov, the dysfunctional federal health insurance website.Since its...
View ArticleBusinessweek Cover Shows Macs Are More Mainstream Than PCs
Bloomberg Businessweek's latest cover story is about President Obama's recent blunders with the Healthcare.gov website.The cover shows a partially loaded digital image of Obama with Apple's iconic...
View ArticleHow One Invention Helped Michael Bloomberg Become The Richest Mayor In NYC...
Tomorrow, if all goes as polled, Bill de Blasio will be elected as New York City's first new Mayor since 2002.That means the end of the Bloomberg era — the end of a billionaire Mayor running the city...
View ArticleThe 25 Richest People On The Planet
Bloomberg has a dedicated team of billionaire hunters constantly updating information on the world's richest people.This week, Bloomberg Markets Magazine is carrying a thorough update of the team's...
View ArticleHow A Team Of Bloomberg Reporters Hunts Down Hidden Billionaires Around The...
On newsstands this week, the December issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine provides a comprehensive list of the richest people on the planet. A lot of the names on the list — Bill Gates, Mark...
View ArticleThe Story Of Bloomberg Allegedly Spiking 'Sensitive' China Stories Was First...
The big story of the weekend for many China/media-types is the front page New York Times story about how Bloomberg has allegedly been spiking stories deemed too controversial for China.Bloomberg is...
View ArticleA Bunch Of Wall Street Banks Are Considering Blocking Traders From Chat Rooms
Honestly, we're surprised this hasn't come up before...Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, RBS, Barclays and more banks are discussing changes to their policy allowing traders across Wall Street to speak to each...
View ArticleThe People Behind Funny Taiwanese Animations Are Now Breaking Huge Stories...
One of the biggest stories this weekend was that the Bloomberg had allegedly been holding back controversial stories about China for fear of angering a huge business market.While the New York Times...
View ArticleMeet The CME Trader Who Thinks Janet Yellen Should Withdraw Her Name From...
What are they serving on the floor of the CME?Yesterday, Tres Knippa, a futures trader and head of a shop called Kenai Capital, told Bloomberg TV that Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen should be withdrawing...
View ArticleBloomberg Reporter Suspended Over China Leak, And Now A Round Of Layoffs...
It's been a rough couple of weeks at Bloomberg.First, there was a story about how Bloomberg was muzzling its investigative operation in China, ostensibly to keep in the good graces of Chinese...
View ArticleTaiwanese Animators Make Amazing Video Depicting Suspended Bloomberg Reporter...
Over the weekend, it was reported that Bloomberg was suspending reporter Michael Forsythe for reasons related to the company's situation in China, where it is supposedly limiting the amount of...
View ArticleThe 'David Pogue' Of Bloomberg News Was Just Laid Off
Rich Jaroslovsky, a tech columnist at Bloomberg news, was laid off today, he said in a tweet.Jaroslovsky is one of about 50 Bloomberg editorial staffers that will be let go today. He was responsible...
View ArticleIt's Clear That The Bloomberg Layoffs Aren't Just In The Sports And Lifestyle...
Talking Biz News has a list of journalists that have been laid off by Bloomberg News, and contrary to reports, the list doesn't just include reporters in sections like sports and lifestyle.This weekend...
View ArticleBloomberg Reporter At Center Of Controversy In China Has Left The Company
Mike Forsythe, the Bloomberg reporter who is at the center of a controversy about Bloomberg curtailing its investigative reporting has left the company. It had been previously reported that Forsythe...
View ArticleCurrency Traders Have Been Texting Each Other Their Clients' Orders To Make...
London forex dealers are texting client orders to day traders in nearby towns to make possibly illegal personal prop bets, Bloomberg's Ambereen Choudhury, Liam Vaughan & Gavin Finch report.The...
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