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I never set out to be an investigative reporter.
Rather, I was interested in discovering new business models for the media, and when I started asking questions about various supposedly successful new media ventures, I found out that they were all hiding something.
I continue to be puzzled that these stories — about Geosign, DexTV and a whole slew of fake news agencies — have been pretty much ignored by the mainstream press. You would think, given the trouble the media is in, they would have been more curious about organizations that were supposedly making a go of it.
Vigilant Futures, the trading firm that funded Canadian Economic Press (CEP News) has changed its name to Vigilant Global. Although Vigilant Futures founder Arvind Ramanathan confirmed in an interview with me that his company had funded CEP News, the now defunct news agency had always refused to say who its funders were. CEP News also [...]
Nota Investments LLC has a location in Oakland, CA. Active officers include Marco Gomez and Isaiah Gonzalez. Nota Investments LLC filed as a Domestic on Monday, July 20, 2009 in the state of California and is currently active. Marco Gomez serves as the registered agent for this organization. The company’s line of business includes Service [...]
Midas Four Ventures, LLC has a location in San Francisco, CA. Active officers include Marco Gomez, Leslie Hedman and Daniel C McDonald. Midas Four Ventures, LLC filed as a Domestic on Thursday, September 18, 2008 in the state of California and is currently active. Edward J Donnelly serves as the registered agent for this organization. [...]
Search for a specific person on LinkedIn and you can see interesting related searches It’s funny that Facebook is always getting in hot water over privacy issues when you can learn so much from LinkedIn, which magically seems to escape criticism. I’ve noticed, however, that a lot of people have recently been taking their LinkedIn [...]
Is Potomac Radio News how RTTNews gets information out of lock-ups? And is Susquehanna Investment Group involved or just curious?
OK, it’s official. RTTNews hates to talk as much as CEP News. I did finally manage to get Martin Kalverkamp, the guy who said DPA-AFX would gain access to lockups thanks to its deal with RTTNews, on the line, but then he pleaded ignorant about exactly what lockups and told me I had to speak [...]
Since I first posted about RTTNews, my site has risen very high in the Google rankings for the curious Buffalo-based news agency. I am now on the first page of results for RTTNews. As well, none of my emails to RTTNews, requesting infromation, have been returned. This week I plan to follow up and make [...]
I’m still looking for more information about RTTNews. Last week, I sent a message to DPA-AFX and Ravi Mariathasan at RTTNews asking for more information about this article, which quotes Martin Kalverkamp of DPA-AFX saying that RTT provides a “real-time US macroeconomic news feed, sourced from the ‘lockup’ newsrooms of government departments.” Since I couldn’t [...]
RTTNews has come up in conversation here before, but I noticed yesterday that Paula Midena, formerly of CEP News (Canadian Economic Press), is now working for this curious Buffalo-based news agency. Paula, you may or may not recall, was the marketing director who either didn’t know or wouldn’t say that Vigilant Futures was the backer [...]
I wonder what’s going on. Both these visits came today from banks. There must be some chatter out there.
