where investment businesses grow
Posts tagged as:
Jim Grant on the formative experiences of building his own financial subscription, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. Beyond his captivating views on the Future, it’s interesting to hear how hard things were initially building his own firm, ex-Barron’s and Dow Jones’ corporate cover. He tells entrepreneurs in the investment content space: I tell everyone that in [...]
{ 0 comments }
The Bloomberg juggernaut continues to impress. Not satisfied with more static, unidirectional programs on Bloomberg Radio and TV, Bloomberg is layering in more experiential type content. Accompanying Bloomberg Surveillance, a popular radio program hosted by Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt, is a new program called Inside Surveillance. For listeners and those interested in the show [...]
{ 1 comment }
From David Jackson, Seeking Alpha‘s founder and CEO: After eight months in development, I’m thrilled to officially launch Seeking Alpha’s Investing Applications today and tell you a bit about why we launched them. Investing Apps are professional-grade tools to research stocks, and manage, track and analyze your investments. These apps are provided by other companies [...]
{ 1 comment }
Yahoo Finance announced today that they’ve launched an Android app. From the announcement: With Yahoo! Finance for Android, some of the great features customers get include: Real-time quotes from BATS Exchange Customizable stock watch list Access to Yahoo! Finance portfolios Company stats and news Tech Ticker videos Users outside the U.S. will still have to [...]
{ 1 comment }
Tired of the print-is-dead-meme, I decided to dig a little deeper. Specifically, I’ve been looking for tools to measure how well investment advice is dispensed by major (and minor) publications. Print is Dead is Dead While print may be in its death throes as a business, it’s clear to me after digging around that some [...]
{ 0 comments }
Lots of interesting stuff going on in financial services. I recently had the opportunity to chat (email, really) with Carol Yuyi Zhou, Director of Marketing for Kalengo. Kalengo is really a hybrid of a lot of what’s interesting in today’s online investing environment: social, analytics, financial content curation, cross-platform, etc. It’s kind of a cross-breed [...]
{ 1 comment }
