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The Rockefeller of the data boom

If data really is the oil of the 21st century, there’s no doubt who’s playing John D. Rockefeller, says the Financial Times. Michael Bloomberg has built a $94bn private fortune from his eponymous financial data empire – “only Warren Buffett has ever made more money out of the business of money”. Indeed, some argue that the Bloomberg behemoth, which has claimed one-third of the roughly $37bn global financial data and analytics market for

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