Tales From the South Pier
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Tales From the South Pier

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Tales From the South Pier

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About This Book

From the invention of the electric telegraph to the emergence of the Internet, new technology has constantly stimulated our desire for information. Nowhere is that desire more intense than in the world's financial trading community, where survival depends as never before on instant and continuous access to market prices and market- moving news. The creation of that community, by a handful of pioneering information companies, is the subject of this book. Its author spent a lifetime working for three of them, an improbably colorful career that took him from newsroom copy-boy to boardroom chief executive. From Morse to Murdoch, he explores the role of human foibles in the rise and fall of business enterprises within this hugely influential branch of electronic media, delivering along the way riotous anecdotes that include drinking, drugs, fist fights and sexual scandals. In an industry scarcely past its adolescence, multi-billion companies can flourish or founder on the whim of ego. Carefully researched, and peopled with some of the most extraordinary characters to appear outside the realms of fiction, Tales from the South Pier is part history and part autobiography. Above all, it is a riveting read.

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Publisher
G2 Rights
Year
2013
ISBN
9781782810094
Topic
Negocios y empresa
Subtopic
Finanzas

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Prologue
  6. Parrots
  7. Paul Julius Reuter
  8. Fred
  9. Roderick Jones
  10. Americans
  11. Troika
  12. Monitor
  13. Cable Vision
  14. Defection
  15. Telerate
  16. Exco
  17. Frenzy
  18. Bonanza
  19. Markets ‘R’ Us
  20. Big Bang
  21. Useful Hooligans
  22. Bloomberg
  23. Dow Jones
  24. Casualties
  25. Losers
  26. Rolling Thunder
  27. Bridge Raised
  28. Bridge Lowered
  29. Dry Rot
  30. Under Fire
  31. Afterword
  32. Where Are They Now?
  33. Select Bibliography
  34. Index