Tag archive: Finance

Shares of Groupon, the most popular daily deal site on the Web and once touted as “the fastest growing company ever,” fell over 15 percent yesterday on news of a net loss of two cents per share on revenues of $506 million. Revenues increased 194 percent from a year ago, essentially meaning that Groupon made much more money than it did last year, but also spent significantly more to achieve those gains. This follows Sprint’s announcement of a… Read More

According to a recent survey conducted by British job site Reed.co.uk, approximately 33 percent of employees admit to using social networking within the office. Facebook was the most popular choice preferred by 45 percent of the people that did admit to logging into a social network. Facebook was followed by LinkedIn, a social network that's becoming commonly used to research potential candidates for job openings. Other choices included… Read More

Paying people to be your friends online just got a whole lot easier. Dwolla, a peer to peer payment platform, has just announced that its service is now available in all 50 U.S. states and supports Facebook and Twitter, reports the AP. Dwolla is a web service with mobile apps as well. Like PayPal, it allows users to send and receive funds to one another via the net. With its new Facebook and Twitter service, Dwolla users can message or direct… Read More

Internet giant Yahoo has offered information and services aimed at investors for years, but now the taken the wraps off its new Yahoo Personal Finance Web site, aiming to provide everyday users with online financial tools and information to help them better manage many aspects of their money and investments. Rather than attempting to offer an online ledger application, in which users would directly monitor accounts and transactions, Yahoo… Read More

Internet heavyweight Google has decided to enter the arena of financial and investment information services, today launches a public beta of Google Finance. Although as yet less comprehensive than competing financial information services offered by rivals like Microsoft. AOL, yahoo, and TheStreet.com, Google clearly hopes to gain and edge by combining services and information in new ways, while adding just a splash of that special Google… Read More