Tag: STOCK

Kapitall is one of the most impressive finance-related websites I've recently come across. The site requires registration (which is free, but you do have to opt out of their newsletter) -- but in return it provides you with an incredible amount of financial data. The experience is very visual. You get a large canvas, which they call "the Playground." You can search for companies by their stock ...

Think of this one as a little tidbit to enjoy with your morning coffee! BSkyB, the owner of the Sky TV brand and a large portion of mogul Rupert Murdoch's media empire, has claimed that Skype's trademark application is confusingly similar to the extant Sky TV trademark. You might be tittering at the stupidity, but apparently BSkyB even has consumer research to back up its claims! People ...

When writing posts, creating websites, or designing other promotional material, there's often a need for some stock images. You know, sometimes you need a shot of an old lady holding a parasol or something like that. There are plenty of websites offering commercial stock photos. However, there are also two major players in the "free stock photo" market, which is what I want to cover here. One ...

Stock traders are among the many groups of people who have taken up Twitter as a way to discuss their interests. They've even developed their own shorthand; a stock symbol is typically prefaced with a dollar sign, such as $MSFT, and tweets that discuss stocks often end with two dollar signs. Stock Tweet App has taken these conventions and used them to build a custom interface for viewing Twitter ...

People have been talking about the market on Twitter almost as long as there's been a Twitter. Some Twitter clients even automatically turn stock symbols into links. That's a good start, but if you're a Twitter user and market junkie, TweetyStock is a must-have iPhone app. It's like a stock-specific Twitter client that lets you follow tweets about stocks in your portfolio, view detailed charts ...

Locating real royalty free images on the web can be a real pain in the tuckus. Thankfully, Paul Sherman has assembled a massive collection that he's happy to share with all comers. WPClipart currently boasts 23,872 public domain images covering just about every subject imaginable. Most are offered as lossless PNG files. You can browse or search for images on the site, and the five main categories ...

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! This edition covers: Google stock drops below $500 Yahoo gets a call from Google for alternative to Microsoft's "bear hug" Google Android Developer Challenge gets extension Google stock drops below $500 For this first time since last August, Google stock prices dropped below $500 this week. Maybe that's due to by Google ...

Stanford University Network Workstation, more commonly known as Sun Microsystems, has decided to change its ticker symbol to something a little more meaningful and symbolic. The SUNW symbol will be changed to the new trading symbol of JAVA as of next week. This marks a new step in the company's growth strategy, focusing on the power and brand strength of Java as a technology for the web. Sun is ...

Are you a digital photographer? Like to bring your camera wherever you go and snap like crazy? Why not enter the world of buying and selling your stock photos? Lucky Oliver is a community of photographers, designers and artists who all buy and sell stock photos. The images and illustrations in Lucky Oliver are high enough quality for both web and print work, and are pretty affordable and ...

In this issue of Googleholic we cover: Google stock value is ramping up Google isn't moving much in the print, radio and television markets New Google Finance charts New Google Web Toolkit readying for release Continue reading Tuesday's Googleholic... ...

$87 million is the number Shutterfly raised in their IPO last week. Apparently they are doing something right. Several friends of mine swear by the online photo service for its many features and ability to print so many products from your photos. I personally love Flickr, and don't have much need for printing my photos on stuff, so I haven't used Shutterfly for that reason. Apparently many people ...

DivX, the little video compression software company that could, is aiming to go public this week, CNET is reporting. The company has almost matched last year's annual revenue of $29.3 million in the first 6 months of 2006, and after adding copy protection to its software which helped it land in over 50 million DivX-certified devices to date, the company is now shaking hands with its former ...

Seems like someone made a booboo at the close of the NASDAQ last Thursday, dropping Google shares $350. The supposed details of this massive error started at the close of NASDAQ when Google trading ended at 4pm with $387.12 a share. Shortly after closing, Google made an announcement that they had better then expected earnings, but less then the quarter before. 4:02 pm hit, and Google's shares ...

Google has more than doubled its profits since last year at this time. The doubling of profits has been said by Google to be from the launch of some very impressive products and services into the marketplace. Google's profits went from $342 million last year, to $721 million this year. This was a historically slow quarter, and Google's growth in the quarter had even shocked Eric Schmidt at a press ...

Microsoft is planning on buying back 8% of its total stock due to a falling net income in the fourth quarter. This stock buyback will add to the already $30 billion it has already bought back in the past year alone. Microsofts income has reported to have dropped from $3.70 billion to $2.83 billion, mostly die to the growing number of legal expenses incurred over the past while. Microsoft's expects ...