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Monday, September 29, 2008

09/29/08 The Raw Greenwich News Feed For Moday


Facebook Stealing Googlers At An Alarming Rate


Facebook has already claimed Youtube CFO Gideon Yu, eCommerce Product lead Benjamin Ling and GDrive developer Justin Rosenstein.


Facebook hires general counsel with fat resume, Harvard degree

CNET News.com

... as general counsel for AOL Time Warner Europe out of the company's London office and then general counsel for the Greenwich, Conn.-based ESL Investments, the billion-dollar hedge fund founded by Edward Lampert. Between 2003 and 2005, Ullyot occupied ...

Hedge Fund Artist Amanda Putty Exposes More Insidious Sexist Behavior ...

PR Newswire

GREENWICH, Conn., - Artist Amanda Putty, whose photorealistic artwork has raised awareness of sexist behavior in the hedge fund industry, has recently completed a new series of paintings ...

Westport's star resident was cool

Boston.com

... had a bohemian flavor and artistic tradition distinguishing it from other wealthy towns on Long Island Sound, like Greenwich and Darien. When Newman chose it, especially, it was a close-knit community where actors, writers, blue bloods, Wall Street ...


Body found in Quechee Gorge

Rutland Herald

... a man found Saturday at the bottom of Quechee Gorge. Police said they recovered the body of a 59-year old man from Greenwich, Conn., but withheld the man's name until they first notify his family. Police asked anyone who witnessed the incident to ...


Dim, doom, downturn

Free Republic

... is the city today. Or it was." Was? Is New York over already? Apparently. The Times rolls out Wolfe, who declared Greenwich, Conn., "the new Wall Street" because of its hedge fund density. "I hate to use the phrase 'masters of the universe,' but ...

Despite the chaos, start-ups may have reason for optimism

The Boston Globe

... bubble, in many cases engaging in frauds of various kinds, were rewarded handsomely and are now relaxing in their Greenwich, Connecticut mansions deciding whether to take out the yacht or the private jet. Wall Street firms did not retain their ...

More consumers are turning to super discount stores to save money

Palm Beach Post

... and trade down into the dollar store space," said Patrick McKeever, a senior analyst with MKM Partners in Greenwich, Conn. "Inflation is making the single price-point store all that much more attractive to consumers. Here, prices don't go up, and ...


Financial Firms' Ads: 'Don't Blame Us'

Hollywood Reporter

... as via e-mail messages from the CEO, its Web site and in meetings. Still another spot, from Interactive Brokers, Greenwich, Conn., this week introduced a new print ad citing "deteriorating credit markets, broker failures, rumors of hedge fund ...

Who's endorsing Wall Street welfare now?

Arizona Daily Sun

... to be known as the nation's "Money Czar," he must imagine God as a celestial Realtor with lots of listings in Greenwich, Conn., where Wall Street tycoons erect competing palaces. A recent New Yorker article by Nick Paumgarten limned the scene. Uncle ...

Butterflies get help at Conn. museum

Telegram & Gazette

GREENWICH, Conn.- Traipsing through the butterfly garden at Greenwich Point, Pavel Bure, 12, armed with a net, was hot on the trail of a monarch butterfly.

Shake-up in financials hits firms with big NYC realty holdings

InvestmentNews

... reminiscent of the 1988-to-1992 period, when you had a lot of bank failures," said Louis Taylor, an analyst in the Greenwich, Conn., office of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. of New York. The main difference, he said, is that the turmoil was spread ...

Maine candidate wants funds returned

The Citizen

... Press Herald says the money includes contributions from his colleagues at Paloma Partners, a hedge fund based in Greenwich, Conn. Pingree declined Summers' challenge and says she'll keep working for campaign finance reform and tighter regulation of ...

So where are the Masters of the Universe now?

Memex 1.1

... investment banking, the entire industry, sank without a trace in the last few days. So where have they gone? To Greenwich, Connecticut, apparently, where is where the hedge funds hang out. And they left some time ago, it seems. The hottest, ...

Wall Street Welfare

Williamson Daily News Online

... to be known as the nation's "Money Czar," he must imagine God as a celestial Realtor with lots of listings in Greenwich, Conn., where Wall Street tycoons erect competing palaces. A recent New Yorker article by Nick Paumgarten limned the scene. Uncle ...

Darien tops Ridgefield

NewsTimesLive.com

... Darien, riding the momentum of last week's 31-25 victory over two-time defending Class LL and FCIAC champion Greenwich, opened the game with a 9-play, 70-yard march. Fullback James Patton's 4-yard touchdown run made it 7-0. Junior halfback Drew ...

Danbury struggles against New Canaan

News Times

... 70 yards) went through a huge hole for the clinching score. Danbury's schedule does not get an easier. It hosts Greenwich next week and travels to Staples the following week. "I'm pleased with the fact we hung in there today and gave ourselves a ...

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