A little over a year ago, the acronyms B2B and B2C stood for
a lot more than the Internet business models they referred to. The implications
of the terms “business to business” and “business to consumer” went far beyond
the executive summaries of the Internet business plans they defined. In those
byte-sized symbols, neatly wrapped Read More
this oneA little over a year ago, the acronyms B2B and B2C stood for a lot more than the Internet business models they referred to. The implications of the terms “business-to-business” and “business-to-consumer” went far beyond the executive summaries of the Internet business plans they defined. In those byte-sized symbols, neatly wrapped around a number, Read More
Michael Stern, the 20-year-old founder of the much-ballyhooed and now defunct Internet incubator Aquarium Ventures, was about to give away a business card. Then he hesitated. “My mother said I should do this,” he said, pulling out a pen. Onto the card, which listed his 411 information but no business association, he scrawled the word Read More
Oops! I touted again
I promised the world
I talked a good game
Oh, baby, baby
Oops! You bought at the peaks
Yeah, you pitiful geeks
You blew the Internet!
Shelley Faldetta, who works in corporate communications at BNP Paribas bank, was hopping around the stage, belting it out off-key to the tune of Read More
The Provident Securities and Investment Company, a lender to a Steinberg family trust, whose trustees include Reliance Group Holdings Inc. chairman and former chief executive Saul Steinberg and his younger brother, Reliance vice chairman and former president Robert Steinberg, sold 1,040, 207 shares of Reliance Group Holdings between May 11 and May 15 of this Read More
He has been hailed as a hero and castigated as a wuss. He has been singled out as a voice for the legions of shat-upon, sleep-deprived Wall Street analysts who slave their weekends away, and he has been lumped in with the new breed of spoiled young Streeters who whine about not having anyone to Read More
Peter Stingi is the paymaster at Merrill Lynch & Company. He’s the “global compensation management” chief. Let’s touch base with Mr. Stingi to see what his predictions are for this Wall Street bonus season. Will you be stingy, Mr. Stingi?
“Generally, we choose not to comment on compensation-type related material,” Mr. Stingi said.
No Read More
All of you brokerage houses
Are like teenage girls
Who throw away their dolls
When they dress in pearls.…
Hit me with your downgrade
Why don’t you hit me with your down-grade
Hit me with your downgrade
Lower away.
Gene Marcial, Business Week ‘s Inside Wall Street columnist, was beaming at the stage, where Read More
Eric Gleacher, the renowned hostile-takeover banker, was trying to decide what to eat for lunch. He and Chas Phillips, his No. 2 at the boutique investment bank Gleacher & Company, were riding downtown in a black Lexus sports utility vehicle to have lunch at the Cosí sandwich bar on Park Avenue South. “I’m going to Read More
At the Sept. 7 press conference at New York’s St. Regis Hotel announcing Viacom Inc.’s proposed merger with CBS Corporation, Viacom chief executive Sumner Redstone was as vital as ever. Tall, beaming, under a thatch of impish red hair, Mr. Redstone stood by his heir apparent, Mel Karmazin, and gloated, as the deal billboards in Read More
