Yahoo is supposed to launch “TechTicker,” their finance video website today. Not too surprising however, they have pushed back the launch date. Regardless, I’ll be eager to check it out. And have you checked out all the news going on surrounding finance sites? Here’s a mini recap:
- Rupert Murdock (News Corp.) buys out Dow Jones and looking to turn the Wall St. Journal to a ad-supported mode (no subscription wall!)
- AOL Finance launches redesign in beta in November when they were the third largest money and finance site.
- AOL Finance overtake Yahoo Finance as the largest money and finance site in December according to comScore’s data (does help to have blog sites like Blogging Stocks)
- CNN Money launches redesign focusing less on graphs and more on video, today.
That’s of course the previous news in the finance space:
- Google Finance (beta) launched nearly two years ago, but no one uses it. Spurs all competitors to improve their charts. (Interactive Flash Charts!)
- TheStreet.com (NASDAQ: TSCM) purchases 49% of startup Stockpickr (launched in mid 2006) in January 2007.
- TheStreet.com (NASDAQ: TSCM) purchases the rest (51%) of Stockpickr in April 2007.
- SocialPicks gets $500K from Bay Partners in angel round investment.
- SocialPicks teams up with Reuters to create new social site for them (essentially their site with a Reuter’s logo.)
What does this all mean? I hope to prove my assumption to be correct — there are still plenty of opportunity in the finance space on the web. There’s a need to improve the way we see, manage, and stay knowledgable about our investments/finance.
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