Barry Ritholtz writes about the psychology and market connotations of being a CEO who is named Time magazine’s Man of the Year.
“If history holds, TIME has just marked the top in the value of Facebook — at least for the foreseeable future. The Bezos cover marked the high point in Aamzon.com’s stock for the next 10 years.
“Understand the psychology of why this is: By the time any phenomena reaches the editorial room meetings of a major non business publication such as Time, it is already a widely held social factor. (1999 Example: Buying books and other gadgets on the internet? Why you don’t say– that’s ingenious!) Ubiquitous Facebook has 500 million users, is now at the point where its early and middle adopters are cringing as their parents sign up and ‘friend’ them.”
Read more here.
The Advocate is looking for a savvy reporter to cover the Baton Rouge business scene…
MLex, a LexisNexis company, is an independent news organization for breaking news and forward-looking analysis…
The Austin Business Journal seeks a staff writer to cover economic development in one of…
A Russian court on Saturday placed Sergei Mingazov, a journalist for the Russian edition of…
Justin Nielsen of Investor's Business Daily writes about the newspaper's 40th anniversary. Nielsen writes, "When the…
Clare Fieseler has been hired by Politico and subsidiary E&E News to cover renewable energy,…