Economics students and faculty use the computers u2014 which each cost upwards of $20,000 annually u2014  to collect and analyze financial data.

Wayne Barlow is a techie turned business leader who heads up the development of Bloomberg’s customer touching terminal software.

Bloomberg is a privately held company, so exactly how many terminals it leases is not public. But financial data does leak out: at the end of last year, the Financial Times reported that Bloomberg has ...