Google Wants to Be a Bank Now
Google, the search engine company that also happens to do 35 other things, is expanding its horizons once again with a new financial services division.
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Facebook's new advertising strategies are working for them, with the company's earnings report showing a year-over-year ad revenue growth of 36 percent.
Google, the search engine company that also happens to do 35 other things, is expanding its horizons once again with a new financial services division.
The state of New York is accusing U.K.-based Standard Chartered Bank of secretly doing business with Iran, fraudulently racking up hundreds of millions of dollars in fees, all the while dismissing an executive's pleas to straighten out with a dismissal of "you f---ing Americans."
Greece's deficit problems were so bad that it has cost the European Union and International Monetary Fund €240 billion in promised bailout money to keep the country's debt crisis from taking down all of Europe. Quite a big problem for a nation that has an economy that's in fact smaller than the metro area of Boston.
This confirms all stereotypes, right? A new survey proves that — yes, indeed — some Wall Street executives are kind of corrupt.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Morgan Stanley will soon let its 18,000 financial advisers have access to Twitter -- that access, however, will be very limited and thus, their tweets will be very boring.
Matt Zames was destined to move up the JPMorgan chain of command one way or another--replacing one of the most respected and well paid executives and making sure there won't be any more $2 billion blunders probably fits into the latter.
There's a new Wall Street workout in town.
In the annals of crime, there is a place reserved for the banker—a special sort of banker, mind you, not just the guy who offers you free checking with your savings account, presuming you keep a certain balance, at Chase.
After a less bullish than expected earnings report, Google's stock plummeted nearly ten percent in after hours trading.
To figure out how the financial crisis college graduates' career choices, Catherine Rampell of The New York Times' Economix blog decided to look at how many young grads are vying to getting into 1 percent through Wall Street.
The financial jobs market isn't doing well and no one expects it to make a comeback anytime soon, if ever.
Harvard Business School has admitted fewer finance-types this year
Prada is the latest company to pursue an IPO in Hong Kong
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