The company provides both free content and subscription services such as Action Alerts Plus,[1][2] a stock recommendation portfolio co-managed by Bob Lang and Chris Versace.

[3] TheStreet was founded by Marty Peretz and Jim Cramer, and the site boasts numerous notable former contributors, including Aaron Task, Herb Greenberg, and Brett Arends.

[9] In July 2001, David J. Morrow, a former reporter for The New York Times, joined TheStreet, Inc. as its editor-in-chief upon Kansas's departure.

[10] William Inman, former Bloomberg News Editor, replaced Glenn Hall as editor-in-chief in March 2012.

[11] Janet Guyon, from Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Investopedia replaced William Inman in April 2014.

Executives of the company were later accused of inflating revenues and paid penalties to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

[25] In April 2013, TheStreet Inc. acquired financial newsletters The DealFlow Report, which covers microcap stocks, including initial public offerings and private placements, and The Life Settlements Report, which focuses on life insurance settlements, as well as the PrivateRaise database.

[38] In December 1999, TheStreet entered an agreement with the Israeli newspaper publisher Haaretz, to invest $2.25 million in exchange for a 25% stake in TheMarker, a new business news website in Hebrew and English.