Will Goldman ever turns Bloomberg into Blackberry ? Ain’t a sure thing.
It’s something like the social register for the global one percent, mixed with the Gutenberg press and a little bit of the iPhone. Getting even more reductive, it’s the ball in tennis: it’s hard to imagine the financial industry without it. As such, many banks and hedge funds gladly shell out the $21,000 or so per unit. Some trading floors, in fact, resemble primal villages in which the biggest bosses can be identified as the guys with the most terminal screens mounted on their desk. Bloomberg L.P. throws off around $9 billion in revenue, making it about as valuable as the N.F.L.
Abnormal Capitalist 