The Freeman School is pleased to announce the opening of a new, state-of-the-art Bloomberg Lab in Goldring/Woldenberg Hall I.  The Bloomberg Lab, an extension of the Turchin Library research facilities, has 12 Bloomberg terminals with dual monitors for financial and market research.  “The Freeman School’s Bloomberg Lab will be a great market research resource for students in the Darwin Fenner Student Managed Fund courses, the Burkenroad Reports program, and across the  curriculum,” said Dean Ira Solomon.

The lab, located in Room 120 GWI, is card-accessible all hours to Business School students and faculty.

Google Maps has added 130 new cities to its Real-Time Traffic Info service.

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Apple moves into textbooks, hoping students will trade their backpacks for iPads.

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The Wall Street Journal article entitled “No More Perks: Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptop Users” describes changing policies at local coffee houses.

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Fewer computer science graduates than available job openings creates a competition for talent.  This was actually predicted 5 years ago when the population of computer science students began dwindling in US universities.

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An article in the USA Today describes how tech sector hiring is hot once again in Silicon Valley, resembling the market of a decade ago.

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A Wall Street Journal article describes how retailers must contend with shoppers who can use smartphones to check competitor’s prices on-the-go.

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