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Perhaps it was [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/technology/26craigslist.html"]reading [/URL]that Craigslist expected to earn $36 million this year from sex ads that set him off. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has issued a subpoena to Craigslist Inc., seeking information on whether it is fulfilling its promise to crack down on ads for prostitution in its …
[ATTACH=right]14831[/ATTACH]Two days ago, the Dow Jones Industrialized Average [URL="http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/probing+point+dive/3001581/story.html"]plunged almost 1000 points in a half hour[/URL]. That's almost 10 percent of the entire value of the market in 30 minutes. That's insane! What happened? Well, it turns out, it was a fairly simple technological trigger that caused the problem. Seems …
According to Gartner you, as in everyone, will start spending more on IT this year. Richard Gordon, a research vice president with the information technology analyst outfit, says that strong fourth quarter sales along with "an unseasonably robust hardware supply chain in the first quarter of 2010" plus a little …
My friend has asked me to help him with his proposed email newsletter that people will sign up for on his financially-themed website. He wants to give recipients the option to stop receiving the newsletter with an "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter email. What is the cleanest, easiest arrangement to …
After finding out that criminal [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story253452.html"]attorneys [/URL]and divorce [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220645.html"]lawyers [/URL]are using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to find out information for and about clients, it shouldn't be any surprise that banks are doing the same thing. "Companies like RapLeaf of San Francisco have been quietly gathering information …
[code=php] <?php function get_string_between($str,$start,$end){ $str=' '.$str; $ini=strpos($str,$start); if($ini==0) return $tbl; $ini+=strlen($start); $len=strpos($str,$end,$ini) - $ini; return substr($str,$ini,$len); } function fix($va){ $va=strip_tags($va); $va=htmlentities($va); return stripslashes($va); } if(isset($_GET['from'])) $from=fix($_GET['from']); else exit(); if(isset($_GET['to'])) $to=fix($_GET['to']); else exit(); if(isset($_GET['num'])) $num=fix($_GET['num']); else exit(); $fs=file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/finance/converter?a='.$num.'&from='.$from.'&to='.$to); $parsed=get_string_between($fs,'ss=bld>',' '.$to.'</span>'); echo $parsed; ?> [/code] Example: I am going to currencies.php?from=USD&to=EUR&num=1 and …
I have just started a new website SNIP as a bit of a side project/experiment. It is a site that gives information about sport, business advice, money & finance deal, apps, etc, etc. I have set up an adsense account and adbrite account, as well as looking at a couple …
Hi guys; I need your assistance. I am extracting some info from my database and I need difference between two fields of money values. Lets call the fields as Field1,Field2,& Field3. Field1 = Current Balance Field2 = Starting Balance Field3 = Field1 - Field2 From my query, I get Field3 …
Hi I am a J2ME developer I am new to Dani Web. I am using chartapi.finance.yahoo.com to calculate and display chart. My questions is how to convert TIMESTAMP value to a Java Date or Calendar Object ?..... For Eg: URL GIVEN BELOW [URL="http://chartapi.finance.yahoo.com/instrument/1.0/aapl/chartdata;type=quote;range=1d/csv/"]http://chartapi.finance.yahoo.com/instrument/1.0/aapl/chartdata;type=quote;range=1d/csv/[/URL] Its output will be uri:/instrument/1.0/aapl/chartdata;type=quote;range=1d/csv/ ticker:aapl unit:MIN …
There has been [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2009/01/13/no-crisis-in-it-security-budgets/"]much speculation[/URL] regarding job losses at Microsoft of late, and now the truth is out. Thankfully the scale of the damage is not as great as at first feared, and nowhere near the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3757.html"]15,000 job losses[/URL] talked about recently. It would seem that 1400 jobs are to …
Hello I would like to know whether there is any Java API available including access to a stock screener like those from either Google or Yahoo. [url]http://screen.yahoo.com/stocks.html[/url] [url]http://www.google.com/finance/stockscreener#c0=MarketCap&c1=PE&c2=DividendYield&c3=Price52WeekPercChange®ion=us§or=AllSectors&sort=&sortOrder=[/url] Thanks
Well, there's one advantage to global warming: The Kodiak-Kenai Cable Company (KKCC) has announced plans to finance, design, build and operate an express undersea fiber optic cable connecting Asia and Europe, routed through the Arctic, according to an [URL="http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=8381"]article[/URL] in the [I]Kodiak Daily Mirror[/I]. Construction of the $1.2 billion, 10,000-mile …
A new normal? That’s what one financial services guru says America consumers can expect now that the housing market has collapsed and people are losing their jobs in droves. “The worst is yet to come," adds Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates. He thinks that the once lofty American's …
Intel is killing the tech sector this morning, down six percent in trading – to $14.40 per share – after a particularly dismal earnings outlook. I’ll get into the details in a moment, but it’s worth noting that we can’t just point the icy finger of guilt at Intel. I’m …
While companies worldwide look for ways to reduce costs, shed dead weight from their labor resources and streamline their businesses, it makes me wonder if Linux will survive the global economic meltdown. Oh, I know it will survive in terms of us geeks who use it and tout its goodness. …
The CS is Email Contact only. The lady promised to me ,the payout is 2 weeks. I am a pharmacy owner in the USA. But I didn't received my money in Nov 21. So I found some guys through google. I found a blog pharmacy-merchant-account blogspot com A guy name …
Hi Dear all Its my table structure... [CODE=mysql]CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `limsrentpayment` ( `PaymentMonth` varchar(15) NOT NULL, `SiteID` varchar(15) NOT NULL, `DurationS` varchar(25) NOT NULL, `DurationE` varchar(25) NOT NULL, `Amount` varchar(15) NOT NULL, `pDate` date NOT NULL ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;[/CODE] and data stored in it [CODE=mysql]INSERT INTO `limsrentpayment` …
Just wondering what everyone else is thinking. Due to the ongoing economic situation and the fact that the stimulus has been a bust (unless of course you are working for the government!), I think more people will look to pay cash rather than use credit. Even with paypal and the …
Can you please help me again ? I am trying to insert a form in to C# but keeps giving me errors and Iam still a beginner so dont understand what most of it says...[CODE]<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/cars2.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="FinanceCalculator.aspx.cs" %> <script runat="server"> protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { …
There has certainly been a lot FUD being spread around lately by the likes of [URL="http://www.comcast.com"]Comcast[/URL] about how [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer"]P2P[/URL] networks are filling up the Internet pipes. Just a couple of weeks ago, fellow Daniweb blogger, Davey Winder wrote (with tongue firmly in cheek), [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2378.html"]The Internet is Full, please get off[/URL], …
Hi, I want to write a small desktop application which will fetch Live stock price from NSE/BSE or Yahoo finance website. In order to create such application I need the guidance that how shoudl I proceed with? The major problem I am facing is connecting a desktop application with intenet …
Hi Guys, I am searching for Open Source Finance scripts such as Account Payable, Account Receivable, General Ledget etc in PHP. But I could n't find a good one. Is there any such open source scripts in PHP available over the web for download? If so, could you please give …
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating [URL="http://www.ibm.com"]IBM[/URL]'s computer market conduct and, depending on the outcome, it might just affect your beloved [URL="http://www.apple.com"]Apple[/URL] computers. As everyone knows, IBM is the major player in the mainframe computer market but now their business practice of not licensing other hardware makers to run …
Windows 7 is coming next month. That's hardly news to any of you, I'm sure, but have you considered that this major OS release could be the catalyst to end the recession? I'm guessing not many of you have come to that conclusion, but consider this: Many, many companies steered …
In address book of MS outlook 2003.Name ,Business Home,Office,Title is there.i simple want to Add New column.[COLOR="red"]Division[/COLOR]value like engineering/administration/Finance .... SO that .if user want to send to emailing to all the users of engineering.it should send on the basis of Division Category like engineering.Kindly let me know the idea.Any …
hello guys.., i am developing an application for a loans and savings(financial) firm. i would want as much data as possible so i can get a good work done.
I'm currently a software engineer and looking at staying within the technical/programming IT field for the forseeable future. I'd like to do an MBA to increase my knowledge of businesses/commerce in general. For instance being able to understand the economy much better, finance/stock market or how companies operate. A career …
Yesterday, [URL="http://www.apple.com"]Apple[/URL] [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090609/bs_nm/us_apple1"]announced[/URL] significant price drops on many of its consumer products including the iPhone and Mac Air. This is an unusual move by Apple since it carefully controls its pricing--so much so that rarely, if ever, do its products go "on sale." So what's up with this big price …
Where would we be without the hole in the wall, that magical machine that provides us with cash whenever we need it? Where would we be without online banking, that magical system that lets us pay our bills via the Web? Customers of the HSBC bank in the UK found …
Well, well, well...Larry Ellison, [URL="http://www.oracle.com"]Oracle[/URL] CEO [URL="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018535"]added[/URL] [URL="http://www.virtualiron.com"]Virtual Iron[/URL] to his collection today. Congratulations, Larry. When is Oracle going bankrupt? Every time that I've seen a company acquire too many other companies in a short time period, they always end up in the dustbin. Oracle just acquired [URL="http://www.sun.com"]Sun[/URL] just one …
Apple came out with its earnings report yesterday, and while all wasn't rosy for the Cupertino technology company, bottom line is they made money as earnings increased an impressive an impressive 8.7 percent in year over year earnings with net profits up 15 percent (as reported in [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/apr/22/apple-quarter-results"]the Guardian[/URL]). All …
I want to get to GameStop and the overall video game market, which finally seems to be losing steam. But tech is going nowhere until we straighten the banking mess out and this week’s earnings report from perhaps the biggest bank out there - Citi – is being falsely touted …
President Obama – who only weeks ago warned of the greatest financial meltdown since the Great Depression if his $1.1 trillion stimulus package wasn’t passed by Congress - now says that he sees a “glimmer of hope” that the financial trauma is ending and that things could be stabilizing. Call …
Is it time to get back into the market? I don’t think so – if it walks like a sucker’s market, talks like a sucker’s market, and squawks like a sucker’s market, it’s a sucker’s market. Tech Ticker’s Aaron Task agrees. He says today that the U.S. still haven't dealt …
The Nasdaq is down 43 points this morning, with Google (down $12) and RIMM (down $3) leading the charge down the hill, so to speak. I think we’re seeing the first symptoms of anther false bottom, which sounds incredible after hearing from so many experts on Wall Street that the …
It didn’t take long for CA to pay the price for the lower earnings outlook that popped up among Wall Street analysts last week. The stock fell 3% today after Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert downgraded CA to “hold” from “buy”, and lowered her target price for the computer giant’s stock …
I read a [URL="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20090403/tc_infoworld/131038"]news story[/URL] by Paul Krill about how Linux OS Server shipments have and will continue to slip by double-digit margins in 2009. Windows Server shipments are hit hard as well but almost 5% less so than those of Linux. The original report came from IDC. The IDC …
My first job on Wall Street was on the equity options floor of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, running trades for Bear Stearns’ clients, mostly market maker and floor brokers trading on their own accounts or for affluent clients. Options are a tricky beast, and I don’t recommend that average investors …
Now that the news is out on IBM’s proposed $6.5 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, analysts are in a lather over why Big Blue wants to make the deal. The Wall Street Journal originally broke the story, reporting that the merger “could help IBM in the finance and telecommunications markets …
Rumors are rampant over a proposed Verizon-Nokia deal on a 4G mobile device, as equity options traders snapped up calls (options to buy a given stock at lower prices) in anticipation of a big run-up in Nokia’s stock. Nokia is trading at: $8.76, up a tick or two from the …
When Warren Buffett talks, Wall Street – and Main Street – listen. And now he’s talking about the future of the U.S. economy. In a wide-ranging, three-hour interview on CNBC yesterday, Buffett said, “the economy has fallen off a cliff.” Noting people have "changed their habits", Buffett seemed very frustrated …
Crikey! And there I was thinking we were slap bang in the middle of a global recession. Things can't be that bad, I guess, if a retailer can find $5.1 million to pay for a new domain name. Yet that is exactly what Toys R Us has paid out in …
Charlie Payne, sounding a lot like Revolutionary War pamphleteer Thomas Paine, says that we're in the 2009 version of “these are the times that try men’s souls”. Of course, the historical Paine once also said that those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the …
Two pieces of dispiriting information on the economy hit the big wire services today: The Associated Press -- The economy contracted at a staggering 6.2 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, as consumers and businesses ratcheted back spending, plunging the country deeper into …
Is there hope for stocks in 2009? At all? A University of Iowa business professor things so, and he claims he has the data to prove it. It’s all about upside potential – and the fact that Wall Street has already baked a lot of the bad news into the …
You have to give Microsoft credit. They keep trying, even if what they are trying is copying Apple. This time they have announced they are going to open retail stores. Sound familiar? It should because it's what Apple has done so successfully with its Apple Store strategy. The problem Microsoft …
Remember last month when DaniWeb [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3847.html"]reported[/URL] how some 1400 jobs were to be lost at Microsoft? These losses forming the first part of a plan to trim costs which would see a total of 5000 Microsofties facing the axe. Well now, in the most bizarre of twists, it seems that …
Just one follow-up note (as promised) on the Sirius XM situation. Just days before Sirius XM purportedly was going to default on its next loan payment, Direct TV came through with a $534 bridge loan to keep Sirius afloat so it can continue to reorganize – possibly as a takeover …
The bearish global economic environment just keeps adding pressure to technology stocks. As gross domestic product (GDP) drops in bourses around the globe, tech traders are nervous, at least for the short term. Take Japan. The Land of the Rising Sun is seeing a decline in GDP, falling to the …
Earlier in the year I clipped out a few expert predictions on technology stocks for 2009. From time to time, I’ll check in and see how those stocks are doing. It’s only six weeks into the new year, and perhaps it’s not fair to check in so early. Still, conditions …
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