by Zack Miller on March 1, 2011
Looking for a way to make a quick buck? Well, TradeKing, a startup online broker is willing to pay you and a friend $100 each if you refer him on over to open an account. TradeKing’s Refer a Friend is targeting current account holders and incentivizing them to bring in new account holders. $200 is [...]
by Zack Miller on May 25, 2010
Interesting little announcement from StockTwits this morning. The distance between financial content and trade execution narrows as Stock Twits embeds broker Zecco’s Zap Trade into their site. From the announcement: Zap Trade is a little “widget” that appears wherever you see a ticker symbol on StockTwits. Clicking the Z launches a pop-up trade ticket that [...]
by Zack Miller on November 15, 2008
[Hat tip to Barron's Electronic Investor) A financial services research firm, Corporate Insight, recently published a 173-page report aptly named, Social Media: Trends and Tactics in the Financial Services Industry (see table of contents here). While I don’t have a spare $12k to purchase the report (anyone want to comp me?), it appears to be [...]
