From an email sent out to the list today..
Meanwhile, we’ve released the next version of the Marketcetera
Platform. We’ve heard from many of you that getting the entire
platform to work has been non-trivial, so this release we’ve focused
on improving the install experience and packaged it as a native
Windows installer.
That means the entire platform can now run [...]
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Marketcetera, the “open source” Automated Stock Trading has tickled the funny bone of the blog hype machine…
All the other cool kids(Ostatic, VentureBeat, The Open Road) are blogging about “Marketcetera” so I’ll yield and follow along…
The platform which is currently at the 0.4.2 release — 1.0 scheduled for Q3 2008 uses the “FIX” protocol to execute [...]
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In November as the reports of IAC splitting up were coming in, I asked the question Will Microsoft Buy Ask? — now that Microsoft has put in a generous offer of 44 billion at an estimated 63 percent premium of Yahoo’s current stock price I’m forced to re-evaluate that chain of thought, and admit that [...]
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This month Barry Diller, CEO of IAC split up his media empire into five distinct companies, aligned more or less with their respective sectors. The Home shopping network “HSN”, Lending tree, Ticketmaster, Interval International, and IAC. IAC contains all the remaining Internet properties including Ask.com, Evite, Match.com and CollegeHumor.com
The timing of this is a little [...]
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