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Yahoo Finance gets Androided

by Zack Miller on October 6, 2010

Yahoo Finance announced today that they’ve launched an Android app. From the announcement: With Yahoo! Finance for Android, some of the great features customers get include: Real-time quotes from BATS Exchange Customizable stock watch list Access to Yahoo! Finance portfolios Company stats and news Tech Ticker videos Users outside the U.S. will still have to [...]

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Online Finance Wishlist: Can you show a brother some love?

by on February 2, 2010

So much progress has been made in online finance, but man,  we still have so much more to do! While the amount of investing information has exploded online, there are still major gaps in many of the top sites that seem like no-brainers to fix. The following list — submitted to me over the past [...]

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10 predictions in online finance for 2010

by on December 21, 2009

I’ve been thinking about what the future has in store for investors and I’d like to use this post to help clarify my thinking.   Essentially, I’d like to hone in on what 2010 portends for online finance.  I’m looking for some broader trends, as well as some company-specific prognostication. AOL’s ascension, Yahoo Finance’s continued domination, [...]

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Murdoch on Sky News on the WSJ.com

by on November 10, 2009

Interesting interview with Rupert Murdoch himself on the WSJ.com, Google, and premium content. Here’s TechCrunch’s take on what Murdoch has to say: Murdoch told his own Sky News that he might start blocking Google and other search engines from giving searchers full access to articles on the Wall Street Journal’s website, WSJ.com. Asked whether he [...]

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Just a matter of time until ads showed up on Google Finance

by Zack Miller on November 24, 2008

For those of us following Google’s foray into online finance, it was always kinda strange that Google, the contextual search behemoth, never had any ads on its fledgling financial site, Google Finance. Until last week. Yes, folks, last week included that fateful moment when Google schlocked up their pretty clean interface to deliver more ads [...]

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Yahoo Finance sprucing up globally…yawn

by Zack Miller on October 16, 2008

I love Yahoo Finance.  Even if they weren’t the first or even the best financial portal, it has been the go-to place for investors, both individual and institutional, to research stocks, industries, markets, and ETFs — for years.  Many gripe that Yahoo has been slow in turning the huge ship that is Y Finance, but [...]

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Wikinvest makes everyone into a chartist

by Zack Miller on August 3, 2008

Techcrunch had good coverage of Wikinvest’s launch of embeddable, annotate-able, wiki-able charts.  Wikinvest, which like it sounds, is a wiki focused on building out user-generated company and stock information.  Now, the site has developed charts that can be annotated and embedded into websites and blogs. If you check out Apple’s chart (sorry wordpress.com doesn’t allow [...]

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Sales 2.0: empowering sales and marketing with greater conversion

by Zack Miller on July 20, 2008

Sales 2.0 technologies Web 2.0 technologies, like our new website, blogs, wikis, tagging, etc. are more than just some AJAX and cool, simple apps. The better technology and platforms have begun to take shape and are currently powering Sales 2.0 and making people real money. I’m currently employing some of these technologies and platforms to [...]

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Searching inside conference call transcipts — for free!

by Zack Miller on June 30, 2008

SeekingAlpha recently launched the capability to search their thousands of quarterly conference call transcripts for free.  Check it out. Some possible uses: Curious in investing in Google ahead of the Android launch in late 2008?  Search for “Android” and find the software developers gearing up for launch on the Google platform. Interested in finding out [...]

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