Two web sites share more or less the same punch line : “When business news meet pop culture”. These are : WallStrip.com, with its hilarious videos of most talked-about companies on the stock market (this site was recently acquired by CBS) and MainStreet.com for whom “the point is to make finance fun”. To achieve this, its owner TheStreet.com, hired a young editor known for her writing in Forbes about billionnaires.
> Mainstreet.com will hit the web early 2008
> see WallStrip.com (I lenjoyed the parody of the Sopranos to recount the story of
some high-flying garbage management company).
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