by Zack Miller on June 8, 2009
I’m not particularly a fan of these Mainstream Media (MSM) overviews of Internet tools. I find, more often than not, that they’re typically short on analysis and don’t help investors really navigate what’s really out there, why these tools are important, and how investors are successfully using them. This short video piece (2:45) ran late [...]
by Zack Miller on March 19, 2009
Interesting presentation from an O’Reilly Webcast by Robert Passarella. According to his O’Reilly bio: “Robert Passarella has spent over 18-years on Wall Street in the gray zone between business and technology…focused on leveraging technology and innovative information sources to empower Equity Research and serve clients. A veteran of Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and [...]
by Zack Miller on February 2, 2009
There are many new faces on the scene in online finance. As we move away from mere trading platforms and portals to more social media-like applications, we’ve taken a stab to enumerate some of the top thinkers/movers/entrepreneurs in the space to keep tabs on. I used a variety of slippery factors like vision and influence [...]
by Zack Miller on February 1, 2009
Do you use a friend’s subscription to log in to a premium finance site? C’mon, we all do it at some point. Whether it’s an expensive investment newsletter or a premium version of the WSJ or some other news/research platform? Well, whether you admit it or not, we’re in good stead. AllThingsD reports today about [...]
by Zack Miller on January 20, 2009
This interview is with George Tsiolis, CEO of pure online IR firm, AGORACOM. George and I have conversed for years about the cutting-edge of the IR world. George is a forward thinker and an indefatigable executive and shares his thoughts about his firm, the state of the art in financial communications and the future for [...]
by Zack Miller on January 8, 2009
In the wake of the Bernie Madoff scandal (Clusterstock has some great coverage), the Satyam fraud, and whatever else lurks around the corner, investors have lost billions of dollars of investable assets at the hands of hucksters. While most investors shrug off fraud as improbable, there are those analysts who studiously work to uncover inconsistencies, [...]
by Zack Miller on January 6, 2009
This post appeared recently on IRWebReport as part of a guest contributor series I’ve been working on. I thought it was a good overview and appropriate here for NewRules. Dominic Jones is really a thought leader in his field and is really ramming it home on his analysis of how social media is impacting investor [...]
by Zack Miller on December 23, 2008
This post appeared recently on IRWebReport as part of a guest contributor series I’ve been working on. I thought it was a good overview and appropriate here for NewRules. Dominic Jones is really a thought leader in his field and is really ramming it home on his analysis of how social media is impacting investor [...]
by Zack Miller on December 16, 2008
TechCrunch has a great writeup today abou upstart, kaChing, the most popular investment app currently on Facebook. It’s a pretty extensive writeup so I don’t have a lot to add here. I would say that unlike Covestor or Vestopia/PersonalRIA, kaChing doesn’t require real money to be put to work behind the portfolios. So, when investors [...]