I've been a business reporter for a while. I've covered Wall Street, venture capital and now private equity. I'm always looking for a scoop or something to talk about. I'm the eternal optimist and am still waiting for the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series. Yes, I believe.
In Second Opinion, Yao Ming is reportedly putting together a group of Chinese investors to bid for L.A. Clippers, Twitter’s user base is expected to increase 24.4% in 2014 and Yahoo plans to introduce a rival to YouTube later this summer.
1 min read · 27 May 2014
Fundraising was easier and quicker for many financial sponsors during the first three months of the year, according to the Triago Quarterly.
2 min read · 27 May 2014
In Second Opinion, Don Sterling has authorized his wife, Shelly, to sell the L.A. Clippers, Google is close to buying Skybox Imaging for $1 bln and Brian Williams has snagged an interview with Edward Snowden. Happy Memorial Day, everyone!
1 min read · 23 May 2014
This year’s Memorial Day story, where we usually highlight the glamorous and not-so-glamorous pursuits of vacationing PE executives, produced one surprise: hardly anyone expects to work.
2 min read · 23 May 2014
In Second Opinion, Smartphones now account for 87 percent of U.S. handsets, Eric Snowden takes a selfie with friends, Nest is recalling 400,000 smoke alarms and whether Dick Parsons really played basketball at the University of Hawaii.
1 min read · 22 May 2014
In Second Opinion, the Winklevoss twins have a radio show on Sirius, how Instagram became the best crisis PR, Fab cuts one-third of its global staff and Mark Cuban tells why he bought the Dallas Mavericks.
1 min read · 22 May 2014
Leon Black, the chairman and CEO of Apollo Global Management, is known for buying and selling companies. But the PE titan has some choice words for young women who like to go out in the sun.
2 min read · 21 May 2014
In Second Opinion, Twitter backs out of talks to buy SoundCloud, Oculus Rift is coming to Chunk E. Cheese, the LSE enters exclusive talks to buy Russell Investments and McDonald's new Happy Meal mascot is scary.
1 min read · 20 May 2014
In Second Opinion, YouTube is reportedly buying Twitch for $1 billion, the Winklevoss twins think Bitcoin could be bigger than Facebook and Marc Andreessen wants Twitter's character limit to be increased to 300 - 400.
1 min read · 19 May 2014
In Second Opinion, Google is still a long way from being the company that founder Larry Page envisages, Russian regulators are threatening to block Twitter and Barbara Walters retired today.
1 min read · 16 May 2014
