Aiming to take the popular financial news and information pages of its portal to new levels and target an affluent class of users in the process, Yahoo's Japan subsidiary has announced plans to link with two stock trading brokerages. Yahoo Japan said it struck basic deals with E*Trade Securities, Ja...
The online financial services world finds itself back in the mergers-and-acquisition spotlight today as Ameritrade and TD Waterhouse have confirmed reports that they are talking about merging their online brokerages. Ameritrade Holding confirmed that talks were under way with Toronto Dominion Bank, ...
The trend for industries to consolidate through major mergers and acquisitions has made its way back to the e-commerce space, with No. 2 online brokerage E*Trade Financial reportedly posed to make a surprise US$5.5 billion bid to buy smaller rival Ameritrade. Neither company has formally acknowledge...
In some industries, it is easy to tell who is at the top of the heap. The office software realm has Microsoft, the beer world has Budweiser, and for much of the cola-loving planet, Coke is it. Among online brokerages, however, crowning a king is not so simple. Potential candidates have strengths and...
The Nasdaq stock exchange has given BarnesandNoble.com just over two months to either boost its stock price or face delisting, an often fatal blow to a public company's fortunes. BN.com, which launched a $420 million IPO in the dot-com heyday of 1999, received the warning notice because its stock ...
Numerous venture capitalists are nursing wounds sustained when companies collapsed and stopped going public at a record clip. But most of the VC firms that can trace their roots back to the pre-boom era are still hanging on, if not thriving. "Those who came late to the party and tried to grab all...
Japanese Internet venture investor Softbank has sold its remaining stake in E*Trade, taking a loss as part of an effort to realign its holdings and reduce its exposure to the dot-com world. Softbank said it sold a total of 12 million shares of E*Trade stock for $3.60 each, raising $43 million. Wh...
Consolidations and stock market chaos are causing upheaval among online trading companies, and the ripple effects could continue for some time. For example, analysts said more mergers and exits from the sector could be in the offing. "I would not be surprised if you saw some of the minnows merge ...
Even as the major U.S. stock markets dipped to new lows, Ameritrade -- the second largest online broker -- said it squeezed out a quarterly profit of $5.7 million. The company noted that order volume has plummeted as consumers have turned away from stock trading in large numbers, reducing revenue...
As the stock-market bull remains in a lengthy hibernation, the number of people who qualify as active online traders has tumbled. But the sector has kept its footing, thanks largely to established brokerages that are offering multichannel options to customers. "A lot of the houses have gone strai...
Robertson Stephens, an investment bank that helped take Webvan, eToys, Palm, eMachines, Buy.com and a score of other Internet and tech companies public in the dot-com heyday, will be closed after attempts to find a buyer failed, according to parent company FleetBoston Financial. "It was a difficu...
The Internet economy is entering maturity, but not in the stock market or even in research and development labs. The dot-com sector is coming of age in a courtroom. "You can't underestimate the distraction factor," Giga Information Group analyst Laura DiDio told the E-Commerce Times. "When execut...
Seeking to repair an embarrassing discrepancy between the pay of its top executive and the company's staggering financial losses, E*Trade said it has rewritten the contract of CEO Christos M. Cotsakos. Under the new contract terms, Cotsakos will repay about $21 million worth of compensation he re...
Here's a news story you will not be reading anytime soon: Executive X announced he was resigning his position at Technology Co. Y because the firm couldn't afford to pay him enough to stay. "Laying off people is no fun," X said, "and this Enron thing has everyone worried we'll go bankrupt if our ...
E*Trade has announced it will pay $100 million in stock for privately held Tradescape. The move will nearly double the number of daily stock trades on E*Trade's network, making it the category leader. But GartnerG2 vice president and research director David Furlonger told the E-Commerce Times tha...
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