By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 11/07/12 10:37am

Looking Forward

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Businessweek Cover Gives a Glimpse of the Future For President-elect Barack Obama

The cover of the new issue of Bloomberg Businessweek offers a terrifying glimpse of what photoshop can do to illustrate how the presidency can do to the appearence. And it’s not pretty.

In 2016, Barack Obama will have more wrinkles, more grey hair and what appears to be larger ears (or maybe they are just floppier?), according to the Businessweek art department. And that’s just on the outside. On the inside, it may even be worse. Because the photoshop job is actually a metaphor for the difficulties that the president-elect faces. Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/23/10 5:08pm

The Social Network

Winklevoss Twins Take ‘Man Purses’ to ‘Social Network’ Screening

Jilted identical twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss attended a screening of “The Social Network” yesterday with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, to pick apart the facts from the fiction in the retelling of the Facebook creation myth. Unsurprisingly, the two Olympic rowers — who, after claiming ownership of the Facebook idea, successfully sued Mark Zuckerberg for $65 million in Read More

By Zeke Turner 7/16/10 12:51pm

Pullquote

Gillette on Little Twitter Stars

“The genre of corporate Twitter writing does not, as a rule, lend itself to brilliance. Noteworthiness is not the goal. Diligence and volume tend to be the yardsticks by which one’s opus is measured. The prolific Scott Monty, head of social media at Ford, is often cited by his peers as a luminary of the Read More

By Zeke Turner 7/15/10 3:51pm

Moves

Bloomberg BusinessWeek Grabs Times Tech Correspondent

New York Times technology correspondent and Bits blogger Brad Stone has been scooped up by Bloomberg BusinessWeek editor Josh Tyrangiel.

Mr. Stone launched his career at Newsweek in 1996, taking up coverage of Silicon Velly for the newsweekly two years later. He will work out of Bloomberg’s San Francisco bureau.

He has a piece in Read More