Did you know that in any given week, technology stocks represent at least seven of the ten most-searched quotes on Yahoo! Finance? We did, and that’s why in recently Tech Ticker — a new video initiative from Yahoo! Finance focused entirely on technology investing.
Some consider the tech sector the fantasy sports of the investing world, and clearly our users are hungry for more in this area.Reporting from both the Silicon Valley and the NASDAQ MarketSite broadcast studio in New York, we plan to provide the most in-depth technology investing coverage on the web. Expect Tech Ticker to be both quirky and opinionated. Our renowned editorial team couldn’t be stronger:
- Sarah Lacy, Correspondent, Silicon Valley: A 10-year Valley veteran, you may read her biweekly BusinessWeek.com column titled “Valley Girl.” She literally wrote the book on the business and culture of the Silicon Valley.
- Aaron Task, Correspondent, New York: He covered Wall Street for a decade at TheStreet.com, is a frequent guest on major business news programs and his daily podcast “The Real Story” was an award winner on iTunes.
- Henry Blodget, Contributor, New York: You know the history. Now meet Henry Blodget 2.0, author of the award-winning blog, Internet Outsider and now CEO of Silicon Alley Insider. Outspoken and battle-tested, Henry will never be at a loss for an opinion.
- Andy Kessler, Contributor, Silicon Valley: A former Morgan Stanley analyst, Andy turned $100 million into $1 billion as co-founder of a technology hedge fund. He began his career designing chips at Bell Labs and is now a best-selling author.
And me — I’m Diane Galligan, executive producer of Tech Ticker. I’m especially excited to join the Internet’s #1 finance website after nearly a decade of producing financial news with CNBC and CNN.
Expect 4-8 video segments a day, including breaking market analysis, CEO interviews, and even documentary style editorials. If you’re thinking this sounds a lot like FinanceVision, it’s not. We’re offering short video-on-demand clips that are focused on a single sector of the market, rather than live streaming coverage of the entire stock market. FinanceVision was actually ahead of its time. We hope to learn from their experience, and take advantage of the many ways the Web and Web video have since evolved.
The videos can be found on the Tech Ticker site, or in the headline feeds of the tech stocks we cover. And what about our coverage of Yahoo!? The answer is simple. We have not only the freedom, but the mandate, to call it as we see it.
You can go to http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker see for yourself. Let us know what you think is working, what’s not and what you want to see. Hope to hear from you — and enjoy!
Tags: aaron task, andy kessler, henry blodget, sarah lacy, Tech Ticker, techticker, videos
June 10th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
These videos will ultimately make Yahoo! Finance a more interactive site.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Looks like POT is in a free fall sell off,this strike is hurting them,looks like they are unable to keep up with orders for potash. When all the other mines strike in support this stock is going to tumble. Getting out now and rentering when the strike is settled might be a very wise move.POT looked really ugly in todays trading session and I suspect the bleeding hasnt stopped yet.
September 9th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
hello my friend, do u need a stream of $5000 every week,do want to go to school but no fund,do need a house but you can’t afford to pay for it.do dream of a lifestyle but you can’t achieve your dreamed lifestyle due to lack of enough money.i have lost the hope of going to university do to lack of money.but the secret i am about to show you save my dream.now i am a graduate here in nigeria.i am living big.all you need to do is just click on the link and you are on your way to financial independence.register free in the site and you start to make your money on very click.
GOOD LUCK MY FRIEND
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:35 am
Now we know who are crooked politcians are, vote them out of office.
Another tax payer bail out. Have Exxon bail the banks out with there 270B profit George Bush!
What’s going on with our country. The theivery of our officails is like no other.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:20 am
We can not rely on the governments or the large financial institutions to bail us, small stockholders, out of this decline. It has become more than apparent that the only force capable of this is us. If you hold stock in a company, leave it there, or buy more of it. That’s all we have to do to turn the ship around. But it will take all of us. We need to show the world and all of the corporate giants that the true power rests where it belongs; in the hands of the small stockholder. There is no other conglomerate with more buying power than the individual stockholders as long as we act from a position of power instead of fear.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:22 am
It makes me sick to the stomach that this Blodget guy is still even allowed to talk to the public about investing. He should be in jail, not speaking as a public figure. During his analyst/banker career, he took millions of dollars from investors for garbage teck stocks that he recommended that he knew were going to fail. Read Charles Gasparino’s book called “Blood on the Street” to see what a crook this guy really is.
In 2002, then New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, published Merrill Lynch e-mails in which Blodget allegedly gave assessments about stocks, which conflicted with what was publicly published. In 2003, he was charged with civil securities fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He settled without admitting or denying the allegations and was subsequently banned from the securities industry for life. He paid a $2 million fine and $2 million disgorgement but kept millions more he earned in fees while promoting investments in stocks which failed.