SpaceX Becomes First Company to Dock Craft at Space Station By Brendan McGarry - 2012-05-25T16:04:39Z Space Exploration Technologies Corp. docked a supply ship with the International Space Station in a breakthrough for commercial space travel. Closely held SpaceX, controlled by billionaire Elon Musk, connected its unmanned Dragon capsule to the station at 12:02 p.m. New York time, according to Kyle Herring, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It’s the first company to accomplish the feat. NASA retired its shuttle fleet last year and wants the private sector to take over the job of ferrying supplies and eventually astronauts to the station. The U.S. currently relies on the governments of Europe, Japan and Russia for those trips. To contact the reporter on this ... Continue reading →

Mathew Yurow Social media editor at Bloomberg (@BloombergNews & @BW). Believes as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Continue reading →

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Bloomberg.com has a redesigned "breaking news" module, complete with a Tweet button. Now, the second a story breaks, you have the ability to share it with your network. It’s a given: Social media has changed the way the world gets its news. Chances are, by the time you’ve read a story on a web site or in the paper, the news has been floating around the Twittersphere for several hours. As a breaking news organization, we understand the power of sharing news as it happens, and are constantly striving to deliver important stories to you faster. That’s why we’re excited to introduce this new feature will not only help you get a jump on the news, but will put the power to broadcast it in ... Continue reading →

Stephen Colbert Voted One of Maxim's Hottest Women May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu reports that after a write-in campaign by his viewers, Stephen Colbert comes in at No. 69 on Maxim's Hottest Women list. She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Inside Track." (Source: Bloomberg) TV Channel Finder ZIP is required for U.S. locations Bloomberg Television in change Continue reading →

While it might seem as though Web content queen Arianna Huffington could soon launch a moon edition of her eponymous Huffington Post — perhaps HuffPo Lunar — the AOL-owned unit’s next effort will be an Oprah Winfrey section on the huge online publishing platform. The Oprah Winfrey Network and Huffington Post Media Group said today that they will officially debut the jointly run site in August, part of a just-struck partnership between the brands. Under terms of the deal, there will be a dedicated version of the Oprah.com site on the Huffington Post platform, with more robust interactive offerings and also with tightly integrated access to the much larger HuffPo audience. In the year to date, Oprah.com has been averaging just five million monthly unique ... Continue reading →

Want a first look at future Oprah's Lifeclass episodes before they air? Your virtual seat is waiting for you! Log on to Oprah.com or Facebook.com/OWNTV at 3 p.m. ET on May 23 to watch and participate in live tapings with Oprah and Iyanla Vanzant. They are taking questions in real time-will yours be one of them? Continue reading →

Facebook Said to Have Talked With NYSE About Switching Exchange By Lee Spears - 2012-05-23T20:03:50Z Enlarge image Facebook Spencer Platt/Getty Images The window of the Nasdaq stock market moments before Facebook shares went public on May 18, 2012 in New York. The window of the Nasdaq stock market moments before Facebook shares went public on May 18, 2012 in New York. Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images NYSE Euronext (NYX) and Facebook Inc. have been exchanging phone calls and e-mails about the possibility of the company switching its listing from Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ), according to a person familiar with the matter. To contact the reporter on this story: Lee Spears in New York at lspears3@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Nick Baker ... Continue reading →