by Zack Miller on February 11, 2009
When I got my first job on the buy-side as an analyst for a hedge fund, the first homework assignment I received was to take home Jim Cramer’s Confessions of a Street Addict and read it cover to cover. I knew of Cramer as a personality/talking head of CNBC ilk. “So, do we do stuff [...]
by Zack Miller on November 15, 2008
[Hat tip to Barron's Electronic Investor) A financial services research firm, Corporate Insight, recently published a 173-page report aptly named, Social Media: Trends and Tactics in the Financial Services Industry (see table of contents here). While I don’t have a spare $12k to purchase the report (anyone want to comp me?), it appears to be [...]
by Zack Miller on November 7, 2008
Good summary over at SeekingAlpha on TheStreet.com’s quarterly earnings. The author’s main takeaway: monetization of ads getting tougher as ad model struggle: This issue is facing every firm reliant on ads for revenues. TheStreet.com’s CFO Eric Ashman said, “it is safe to say that we have very little visibility into online ad spend for the [...]
