A Master of Headline Grabbing

As a former technology correspondent for the Financial Times and co-founder of the now-global First Tuesday club for dotcom entrepreneurs, Nick Denton, 35, understands a thing or two about intelligence gathering. So, when he and two friends launched Moreover, their news aggregation and business intelligence company, in London in 1998, they based it on the Internet, the most immediate publishing medium ever invented. And they exploited the paradox that the hottest news, discussions and market gossip on the Web are the most difficult to get to using basic search tools. "The average site is visited by the average search engine once...