Mike Bloomberg

    By Josh Smith

    | 4:15PM 11/17/2009
    According to a data mining company, the old adage of being judged by the friends you keep translates easily into the digital friends you keep. Rapleaf, a social media monitoring company, claims that by analyzing public information such as the friends you have on Twitter it can assess how...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 3:00PM 10/20/2009
    When a $20 billion company buys a magazine for less than $5 million, it's almost by definition not a big deal. And even if the true cost of Bloomberg's acquisition of BusinessWeek is closer to the $70 million Sharon Waxman reports, it's still barely a speck on the financial-news giant's balance...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 12:00PM 10/17/2008
    New York City's beloved half-price TKTS ticket booth, a kiosk in the middle of Times Square which sells same-day tickets to Broadway and off-Broadway performances, is finally back in service after two and a half years of languishing through construction delays, ghastly cost overruns, and a...