Just penned some thoughts about the recent news that Yahoo Finance is getting into blogging and curation over at my book’s website (migrating much of my writing over there — head over and sign up!).
Money quote:
This is a risky strategy. In essence, the financial portal is pitting itself opposite all its content partners — [...]
By Zack Miller
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Also tagged aggregation, crowsourcing, curation, forbes, investing, long tail, new rules, piggyback investing, seeking alpha, tradestream, yahoo finance
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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 [...]
By New Rules of Investing
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Also tagged broker, financial advisors, industry news, investing, investment site, new rules, social networking, stocktwits, tradestream, trading, zecco
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VOD for investors
Thomson Reuters unveiled its Reuters Insider product today. Geared towards clients of investment terminals, Insider is essentially an aggregator of video content, sucking in both Reuters proprietary content and that from outside partners. It’s going to be like a professional version of Seeking Alpha — but with video, not text.
Trader You Tube? [...]
By New Rules of Investing
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Also tagged Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, financial advisors, financial reporting, industry news, insider, investing, investment site, new products, new rules, reuters, tradestream, trading, video
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Interesting analysis on The Atlantic today regarding the WSJ’s paid content experiment on the iPad.
Let’s remember (from the article):
Apple sold about 500,000 iPad units in its first week
3200 WSJ iPad apps sold so far at $17.29/mo (or bundled together with other editions)
30,000 current WSJ subs trialing a free version of the app — so room for [...]
January 5, 2010 – 6:30 am
I believe the Dow Jones mouthpiece when they say that the executive changes announced yesterday weren’t motivated by cost cutting. Dow Jones chief, Les Hinton was quoted as saying:
This structure will provide the focus to make us faster and better than our rivals at identifying and meeting customer needs. This isn’t about personalities, and it’s [...]
