IF AN earnings release distributed by a PR wire on behalf of the world’s most-watched public company fails to arrive on the world’s biggest investing website and no one notices, does anyone pay attention to press releases anymore? That’s precisely what happened January 18 when Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported its first-quarter earnings amid intense investor [...]
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IF AN earnings release distributed by a PR wire on behalf of the world’s most-watched public company fails to arrive on the world’s biggest investing website and no one notices, does anyone pay attention to press releases anymore? That’s precisely what happened January 18 when Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported its first-quarter earnings amid intense investor [...]
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INVESTOR relations professionals who have dismissed social media as a fad or irrelevant are in for a rude awakening today as messages from StockTwits, the Twitter equivalent for traders and investors, are now appearing on their Yahoo! Finance ticker pages. Yahoo! Finance is the 800lb Gorilla of finance and investing websites and is as popular [...]
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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 [...]
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 wait a bit to get access to the [...]
Yahoo Finance, still the 800 lb gorilla in online finance, has a new video aggregation site here.
Now following similar moves in data and news and opinion (see providers here), Yahoo Finance has begun selectively aggregating financial video. This makes Yahoo Finance, in spite of all its shortcomings, just all the more valuable in the research [...]
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 — [...]
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 [...]
In spite of being one of the lone voices online who actually likes and uses Google Finance (check out my Yahoo Finance vs. Google Finance post), it’s becoming clearer and clearer that I’m really in the minority.
The NYT ran an article this weekend that looked at both Yahoo Finance and Google Finance. A good read, [...]
Kudos to the Google Finance team. While Google Finance’s first lead, Katie Stanton is off galavanting somewhere within the Obama administration (go Katie!), Google Finance hasn’t missed a step. While I may be criticized as a G Finance pump monkey, I’ve always enjoyed their simple platform. For looking up quotes, monitoring the portfolio and simple [...]
