From Forbes Magazine, Sept 13, 1999 These are a mixed blessing. You post messages on them; others respond — agreeing, disagreeing or elaborating. BODY: Yadda, yadda, yadda. These bulletin boards are noisy and full of useless chatter, with an occasional jewel buried there. The bulk of the entries are ill-informed opinions, rumors and even outright … Continue reading Message Boards
From Forbes magazine, May 3, 1999 HERE IS A WAY to ride the broadband wave without buying a moneylosing company like At Home Corp. Horsham, Pa.-based General Instrument (NYSE: GIC) controls 60% of the settop cable box market. Its new boxes will have high-speed modems inside that allow subscribers to surf the Web, get e-mail, … Continue reading Broadband bargain
From Traders Magazine, March 1999 issue Lured by the benefits of using digital technology instead of paper for publishing its stock quotes and obviously eyeing more subscribers the National Quotation Bureau’s (NQB) Pink Sheets are being automated. Beginning next month, the 3,000 companies traded on the Pink Sheets a subset of the non-Nasdaq over-the-counter market … Continue reading Pink Sheet Company Is Seeing More Black An Old-Fashioned Marketplace Is Going High-Tech
From Trader’s Magazine, October 1998 issue Nasdaq will learn next year just how well an Internet-based market-making trading system performs. Several Nasdaq trading desks are among the guinea pigs for a pilot program aimed at testing the reliability and security of the Internet-based successor to Nasdaq’s Level II workstation. And the results of the pilot … Continue reading Nasdaq Prepares for Web Market Making: Pilot Program Is Prologue to Trading-Cost Reductions
From Sept 1998 issue of Traders Magazine Ten years ago, Automated Securities Clearance was a small but pushy software company that competed for order-management business with TCAM Systems. How times have changed. Weehawken, N.J.-based Automated is no longer an upstart, peddling its core BRASS system and order-routing services. BRASS now overshadows the rival product of … Continue reading Bright Side of Upheaval In Order Management: BRASS, the Industry Standard, Faces Competition
