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Disrupting Bloomberg

When I left my hedge fund job a few years ago, I was sad to leave my colleagues and my plush office in Mayfair. Most of all, though, I was sad to leave my Bloomberg terminal. After I’d left, I was able to eke out a few more months of terminal use, first via Bloomberg’s user transition programme and then by blagging. But eventually my B-unit would no longer get me in. My access to the orange-on-black information pleasure dome was denied. 

People talk about the attention economy in the context of the big social media companies constantly. They rarely talk about …