It was during a conversation with family and friends in 2012, when Andrew McConnell recognized the ease of renting their vacation homes on Airbnb and VRBO websites, which were quite new at the time.

As busy as the digital health space has been lately – Castlight and others prepping for IPOs, Audax acquired by Optum, Basis acquired by Intel, SXSW preparing to fete wearables – one group of ...

The high-frequency trading pioneered on Wall Street has come to Madison Avenue. Arbitrageurs are buying millions of online ads and reselling them for a profit in the blink of an eye. They’re ...

Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

The developments in the call money market in December 2006 have exposed the tenuous nature of the financial markets in a possible environment of liquidity shortages. A considerably unequal ...

In law school, you learn about the principal-agent relationship: the rules that govern the responsibilities and liabilities when one party acts on behalf of another. These used to be big issues in the ...

iHeartMedia, the largest radio operator in the US, faces high debt burden and declining EBITDA YoY, making it poorly positioned to handle its obligations. Investors should consider going long on the ...

The biggest problem with modern day media-buying is that the ad industry has been optimizing the wrong thing: impressions. Yes, the industry uses a variety of factors to identify the best impressions, ...

Last month, arbitrage portfolio managers flocked to a San Francisco courtroom, eagerly awaiting any clues that could shed light on the outcome of the proposed Microsoft-Activision merger. The trial, ...

American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term. The editor welcomes manuscripts that creatively demonstrate the connections between ethnographic ...