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> Even companies like Bloomberg that you wouldn't really think of beyond their news service is a massive tech company on the back end The company's entire foun
by apaprocki 9y ago
> Even companies like Bloomberg that you wouldn't really think of beyond their news service is a massive tech company on the back end
The company's entire founding premise was to computerize tasks still accomplished by humans and paper in 1981. The News subsidiary was founded nearly a decade later in 1990. So it's more a case of the tech company considering News the "News-end" rather than tech being considered the "back end" :)
- jnordwick 9y agoI was at an APL(ish) lecture a year ago that veered off into the early years of Bloomberg. I thought it was awesome.