Let me start by saying up front that I used to work at Bloomberg News, so what I’m about to say is informed by that experience. I worked at Bloomberg for about a year after the company bought BusinessWeek magazine from McGraw-Hill and turned it into Bloomberg Businessweek.
- May 14 Tue 2013 10:54
Will Bloomberg Disclose How Heavily Reporters Mined Customer Data?
- May 10 Fri 2013 11:18
A heart to my key
IN “SKYFALL”, the latest James Bond movie, 007 is given a gun that only he can fire. It works by recognising his palm print, rendering it impotent when it falls into a baddy’s hands. Like many of Q’s more fanciful inventions, the fiction is easier to conjure up than the fact. But there is a real-life biometric system that would have served Bond just as well: cardiac-rhythm recognition.
- May 10 Fri 2013 11:15
Project Syndicate: Signs of ostentious wealth in Ukraine are a waste
When Radosaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, went to Ukraine for talks last month, his Ukrainian counterparts reportedly laughed at him because he was wearing a Japanese quartz watch that cost only $165. A Ukrainian newspaper reported on the preferences of Ukrainian ministers, several of whom have watches that cost more than $30,000. Even a Communist member of Ukraine’s parliament, the Rada, was shown wearing a watch that retails for more than $6,000.
- May 10 Fri 2013 11:13
Ohio captive beaten until she miscarried
An Ohio prosecutor said Thursday he may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro as investigators charged that he impregnated one of his captives at least five times and then starved her and punched her in the belly until she miscarried.
- May 10 Fri 2013 11:11
Toms River South's Marco wins 1,600, but knows he can go faster
You know you reached a certain level of distance running and have a certain standard to uphold when it’s early May, you run a 4:18.47 for 1,600 meters, win a county title and it’s not good enough.
- May 07 Tue 2013 13:40
The Rise and Recasting of the Meatpacking District
NEW YORK, United States — In New York, where of-the-moment nightclubs and restaurants can fade as fast as they emerge, knowing where to open a fashion store is rarely an easily answered question. That’s because, in Manhattan, the city’s richest and most dynamic borough, the winds of retail real estate are constantly shifting, reshaping and, occasionally, remaking the city’s luxury shopping districts.
- May 07 Tue 2013 13:37
An End to Scrounging for Plus-Size Clothing
NEARLY three in four American men over 19 are overweight, so it should come as no surprise that most men shopping at big-and-tall stores are of average height but considerable girth. Marketing for such stores, however, features models built more like professional football players than their beer-drinking fans.
- May 07 Tue 2013 13:35
Mount Pleasant
London’s stylish West End neighborhood, Mayfair, has long been associated with baubles, art,Shop the latest prada bags on the world's largest fashion site. antiques and labels befitting the moneyed set, particularly on buzzing, jam-packed Bond Street. But as of late, tony and tiny (less than a half-mile long) Mount Street has evolved into the city’s sleeper hit of top-tier luxury shopping. Big spenders who appreciate the Victorian-style street’s calm, residential feel discreetly duck in and out of the well-curated assembly of stores, each of which is the brand’s only outpost in London, if not the entire UK. Perhaps it’s hyperbole to say sleek Mount Street is to Kate Middleton what glitzy Bond Street is to Kim Kardashian, but that’s the gist.
- May 07 Tue 2013 13:31
Off-duty carry: Flying with firearms
Off-duty carry: Flying with firearms
- May 02 Thu 2013 11:19
Expect long security lines at Ohio State commencement
Ohio State University’s 10,000 graduating seniors and their families should expect a long day filled with extra-strict security precautions at Sunday’s commencement featuring President Barack Obama.