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Can Bloomberg save the newspaper industry?

by on September 21, 2009

We’re not talking about Mayor Bloomberg here, but rather the mutibillion dollar financial media empire he founded.  While there are a lot of alternatives for traders these days, including CapitalIQ and Reuters, most traders still use the ubiquitous Bloomberg terminal as the interface between trading and research. For the unacquainted, Bloomberg terminals are the defacto [...]

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If Wall Street won't pay for financial content, who will?

by Zack Miller on February 1, 2009

Do you use a friend’s subscription to log in to a premium finance site?  C’mon, we all do it at some point.  Whether it’s an expensive investment newsletter or a premium version of the WSJ or some other news/research platform?  Well, whether you admit it or not, we’re in good stead.  AllThingsD reports today about [...]

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Power of expert communities

by Zack Miller on July 22, 2008

I’ve written before about expert communities like Vestopia and Covestor (as well as here) and their impact on investment decisions.  By creating an open community and applying performance and other measurements to the community, spectators and participants in the community can learn from so-called experts within the community.  Experts win with some type of rewards [...]

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