A story in the WSJ this morning alludes to a possible merger of Yahoo and AOL.
In recent days, AOL’s advisers have been presenting different scenarios to AOL officials that illustrate how the two companies could combine their operations and whether the complexity of any such transaction could be surmounted, the people [...]
Jim Grant on the formative experiences of building his own financial subscription, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer.
Beyond his captivating views on the Future, it’s interesting to hear how hard things were initially building his own firm, ex-Barron’s and Dow Jones’ corporate cover.
He tells entrepreneurs in the investment content space:
I tell everyone that in 20 years after [...]
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If you haven’t heard, we’re in the process of bringing you a financial groupon of sorts. It’s not a great analogy — many people smarter than me have said that there are very clear distinctions between what groupon and its thousands of clones do (thanks, Perry) and what I [...]
Throughout the writing of Tradestreaming (my new book) and my analysis on the intersection of social media and investing, I kept bumping up against analytics.
Just as analytics are key to running a web business (I mean, where else can you microtarget advertising and test just about everything — see Dave McClure’s presentation on metrics), they’re [...]
This post originally appeared on Tradestreaming.com, the site for my new book and where I will be posting primarily about consumer financial. New Rules will begin to take more of a financial industry bent to it.
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So, top-dog personal finance website, Mint.com, just announced a further step into financial planning with some goals-based tools [...]
Wikinvest: What it is and where it’s going
Don’t get me wrong. I really like the guys at Wikinvest. I’ve written a lot about how well their crowdsourced information and annotatable charts kicks the pants off of more static resources. I’ve also contended that the way Wikinvest deals with investment data is better [...]
eBay of investment advisors, kaChing announced today that they’re providing servicing of IRA plans. That means that someone with an IRA of at least $10k and the desire to have kaChing investment managers take a crack at managing his portfolio, can now do it.
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 [...]
It’s always a good idea to check out what’s being advertised to see what the financial product firms are pushing. Some of this is horse-leading-the-cart stuff, but sometimes financial products are developed based on demand for such things. Looking at advertising in the financial industry is a momentum-driven way to look at trends [...]
From the Yahoo Finance blog today:
Today the Yahoo! Finance team rolled out new Yahoo! Finance sites in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Singapore. Already in 20+ countries around the world, this is the first wave of a global Yahoo! Finance platform that is rolling out across the globe. This global platform [...]
