stocks

The Fibreoptic War Between Stock Traders Who Cash In Data Lag For Dollars

A lot of the biggest stock moves of the global economy are made by a bunch of dudes yelling at each other in a huge room, right? Wrong. Computers are in charge, battling for the speediest connections. Fastest gets richest.

October 20, 2010
Online

Twitter Can Predict The Stock Market Six Days In Advance

The secret of the bull and the bear are in the bird and the whale: According to a team lead by Indiana University’s Johan Bollen, Twitter can be used to predict the stock market behaviour with an accuracy of 87.6 per cent.

June 9, 2010

Can Apple’s Stock Beat The New iPhone Curse?

Can Apple’s stock beat the new iPhone curse this time?

May 7, 2010
Geek Out

Typo Probably Caused “Most Dizzying Half-Hour In Stock Market History”

Sure, typos can be funny, but when a stock trader is able to cause a huge stock plunge by accidentally entering a “b” for billion instead of an “m” for million” it’s just plain scary. [CNBC]

January 23, 2010

Larry And Sergey Plan To Dump Google Stock, Give Up Control

Google just put out an SEC filing saying founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan on dumping some of their holdings of the company’s stock.

January 1, 2010

The Decade In Tech Stocks: Hope You Had GOOG And AAPL

Turns out it was a tough decade for tech companies. First the bubble they helped create burst and took the rest of the economy down with them; now the credit markets have sunk them in return – with two notable exceptions.

December 25, 2009
Computing

How The Apple Tablet Is Already Making People Rich

It’s understandable that Apple stock is doing well – they’ve had a very, very good year. But after a huge rally this morning, their stock it at its highest price ever. See, yesterday, something magical happened.

October 29, 2009

It’s Not A Good Day To Be A GPS Manufacturer

Google’s free GPS feature on Android 2.0 is great news! Unless you’re the fine folks at Garmin and TomTom, in which case, oh shit. [Engadget]

October 22, 2009

Apple Stock Hits All-Time High, Flaunts Recession

Apple’s stock has hit a personal high for the company at $US205.04 per share, up from its previous high of $US202.96 back in 2007. The company’s overall value is rated at $US183 billion (Microsoft is $US236 billion, in comparison). [BusinessWeek]

October 17, 2009

Chart Of The Day: Google’s Massive Cash Flow In Context II

Google turned in another solid quarter yesterday, with free cash flow coming in at $US2.5 billion. Think about it: that’s a $US10 billion run rate for a company that didn’t exist 10 years ago.

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