ReportonBusiness.com – When Tom Liston needs insight on one of India’s largest companies, he doesn’t pick up the phone to call a long-cultivated, top secret source – he logs on to Twitter to check up on a stranger who broadcasts messages semi-anonymously from the other side of the world.
“This guy trolls all the websites and reads things about Satyam [Computer Services Inc.] that would take me five days to go through. He finds summaries and posts them on Twitter,” says Mr. Liston, the Toronto-based director of research at Versant Partners.
