Business Insider has grilled Kevin Krim, global head of Bloomberg Digital, on the site’s new design.
Krim says:
We felt it was critical to create a new platform, a new palette, a new canvas to deliver a must-use site for news throughout the day, every week. We already have a good global audience, we want to grow that.
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We’re also focusing on aggregation. We’ll link to third party sites if we think its relevant to our audience, we’ll show it, no matter who it’s done by. There’s not a lot of options for business people. When they wake up in the morning, we want to be their one stop.
He also admits the re-launch is part of some serious rivalry:
BI: So, basically you want to kill your rivals like the Wall Street Journal, FT, Reuters?
KK: That’s the idea.