7 apps to help you replace Google Alerts
Guest Post Many fear that, given Google Alerts’ recent issues, it will soon join Reader in the graveyard. Here are seven apps to fill the void -- and better than Google did it.
Wall Street, meet Twitter (now on those fancy Bloomberg terminals)
April 4, 2013 2:13 PM
John Koetsier
The big Wall Street banks are among the last Twitterless bastions of the American workplace. But even their high walls are crumbling thanks to a new Bloomberg terminal product -- and perhaps a recent SEC decision on Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
Tech companies could make billions by serving the ‘next billion’
February 4, 2013 12:44 PM
Rebecca Grant
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the Alliance for Affordable Internet, a public-private partnership to expand internet access in the developing world, during her final press conference.
Digital news pioneer Michael Bloomberg reads 8 newspapers a day
May 31, 2012 8:58 AM
Dylan Tweney
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who made billions of dollars as the founder of the disruptive digital news and data service that bears his name, prefers to get his news the old-fashioned way: On dead trees.
Bloomberg reads no less …
Record number of IPO delays could spell trouble for Groupon, Zynga
August 12, 2011 3:00 PM
Jolie O'Dell
A record number of companies delayed their initial public offerings this week in the wake of market upsets.
Following agency Standard & Poor’s downgrading of the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA (and the subsequent stock market slide), many …
After breaking quiet period rules, Groupon amends IPO filing
July 14, 2011 5:13 PM
Meghan Kelly
Someone broke their quiet period. Groupon amended its IPO filing after Bloomberg News published a statement from Groupon’s co-founder and Executive Chairman in June.
The amended filing states that Eric Lefkofsky was reported saying that “Groupon was going to be …
