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BLOOMBERG KILLERS In the past, you had no choice. Open your BBG terminal, grab your HP 12C, and hunt. Now, Bloomberg has real competition at the high end w/ LSEG, Cap IQ, and FactSet. And forget the HP 12C. Excel is all you need. But what if the cost is still too... See more

Bloomberg is such a joke. While Perplexity does realtime call transcription for free, Bloomberg has a 15 minute lag and costs $30k/year. https://t.co/snaYTqU5XH

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Bloomberg offers a perk for clients that is known as the “lose-your-job free trial.” It works like this: if you are a paying customer who gets fired, you can request access to a Bloomberg terminal at no cost for some number of months. The program helps explain one reason Mike Bloomberg has... See more

In data and analytics, Bloomberg is being challenged by a raft of start-ups. Some of them target smaller investors like me who baulk at paying Bloomberg’s US$24,000 subscription fee. Others target bigger customers who want to go deeper into more specialised data than Bloomberg supports. I use two alternatives—Koyfin and Sentieo.

Bloomberg fits the Christensen incumbent model not just because it exceeds the needs of some customers but also because it ignores the needs of others.