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    YouTube Founders, Investors File to Sell Google Stock...both worth over $500,000,000

    Only in America god I love this country!! Honestly I actually mean it.
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    Overstock.com sues Wall Street for $3.48bn

    One gets the feeling that Patrick Byrne, the boss of the online excess inventory dealer Overstock.com, would have an argument with himself if he were the only person in the room. But let's say this for the pugnacious retailer, he's willing to take on all shapes and all sizes. On Friday...
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    help pls - trading in foreign exchanges

    What exactly does this have to do with Wall St. news please post such questions in the forex section of ET forums. Thanks.
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    Joost - IPTV from Kazza/Skype Folks

    Joost is a new venture of Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and kazaa). The pair plans to develop software for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer tv technology. Working under the code name "The Venice Project," Zennstrom and...
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    Tick Database Implementations

    We have a similar system in house called TDMS, TDMS is the strategic trade entry and risk management platform for the Trading Division. It is a very high-throughput, in-memory database which accommodates securities and derivatives trading, across FICC and Equities. It is being written in-house...
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    eBAY Acquires StubHub!

    eBay is Buying StubHub For $310 million StubHub is rumored to be doing $10 million or so in profit on $400 million in gross annual sales, implying just over a 30x multiple to EBITDA. That’s quite a valuation StubHub is the fan's ticket marketplace, enabling customers to buy and sell...
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    Sad Sad Day for PALM,RIMM

    From the horses mouth. One awesome feature is the ability to customize your UI, put keys and short-cuts any where. I can customize the UI to have 40 buttons each button is preprogrammed to dial someone in my contact list :) that's pretty nifty the iPhone gives you the power to define your...
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    Sad Sad Day for PALM,RIMM

    Man are you nuts? I think you should really head down to the Apple 5th ave. store and checkout the iPhone in person. Multi-touch is the next must have feature, look what the scroll wheel did for the ipod its basically the same level of sophistication for user control on the iPhone. Though I...
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    Sad Sad Day for PALM,RIMM

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=1d&l=off&z=m&q=l&c=PALM,RIMM
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    Ford new CEO cancels his order for a Lexus

    Eat your own dog food, what a sham and that car actually parks itself lol
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    Building an ECN network

    Could anyone comment on all the necessary steps needed to build an ECN from the groud up, I'm actually shocked at how profitable in the short amount of time BATS Trading have become. Also what are the major incentives for clients routing orders over a newly established ECN's? Are there any...
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    Nyse-euronext/liffe

    So how exactly will this merger change the way we do business today? It seems that companies listed on the respected exchanges will only be restricted to local government/finance laws in each country. John Thain, who would head NYSE Euronext, intends to use the combination to form the...
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    Goldman Bonuses

    Office Assistant 5 - 15% Infrastrucuture Support / IT Operations 15% to 50% Specialized App Support groups like GSAT 20 - 50% Developers 20% - 60% Sales Traders - 5 - 100% Research 50 - 200% Investment Banking 100 - 5000% Enjoy!
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    Greenwich, Conn. Hedgefunds

    I know there's probably a simple reason behind this but why are so many hedge funds primarily based out of Greenwich CT?
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    FACEBOOK made a stupid move.

    The company is still being managed by a 22 year old techie.
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    Another Large Fund closes shop

    Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Ritchie Capital Management Ltd., struggling with two years of below-average returns, plans to sell assets of its flagship hedge fund and return cash to investors, according to an e-mail sent yesterday to clients. Ritchie Capital is negotiating with an undisclosed buyer...
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    50 year mortgages....

    Still better than paying rent, the average middle class family can barely afford the 5% + fees down payment required for a new home, much less the monthly payments required for a home with a 15 - 30 year loan @ say 400k. Your better off being very rich or very poor in America. The middle...
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    Redhat

    Is Redhat RHAT a good buy for long term investors? Having just joining the NYSE I do see Redhat being a major player for many years to come.
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    Schindler Fund up 21.3% YTD

    I like the interview on his site what's his ET handle ?
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    Java Charting API

    Can anyone recommended any Java charting API's? Something fairly reliable for large data sets opensource would be better but if reasonably priced that would be cool thanks.
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