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When writing a story that revolves around stock prices, I prefer to wait until the market’s closed - don’t want the story reversing itself as I type, after all. I’ve found that market updates from Google (and Yahoo and MSN) are a little slow, though, and for this, we can blame the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Of all the edges I know of, embracing amazing design is the easiest, the fastest and the one with the most assured return on investment.
Rupert Murdoch, chair of News Corp., is buying Dow Jones & Co, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal for $5 billion. Yesterday he announced that he’s ending the subscription model for the WSJ.com website (which many deem a success).
Public transportation doesn’t seem too tempting when you’ve got a car in the garage. But if you’re on vacation in another country, those sorts of systems start to look quite nice, and so we welcome the introduction of Google Transit trip planner for Europe.
While it is common, nowadays, to whine how Google shouldn't tell people how to make money with their websites (like selling links), this time Microsoft has done the same. Lately, it's been noticed that Live.com spams the referrer logs of the websites, claiming that it is only about quality check.