Symbian isn't creating any special app store technology, but says it will help its members stock their own stores with Symbian applications.
It is one of a score of sites that monitor members' stock picking prowess (another is run by Forbes.com and affiliate Investopedia at http://stocks.forbes.com).forbes.com
Jarmo Laihia and Lasse Leino are employees, board members, stock holders and patent inventors for BioCis Pharma Ltd.
Thomas P. Sorbo, chief operating officer of Standish, Ayer & Wood, said the firm lost its four-member stock-picking team for small-company stocks to a rival last August and decided to make a distribution quickly.
He declared his opposition to the merger on Nov. 6, after the four-member stock committee of his family foundation and an investment advisory firm both concluded that the Compaq deal would be bad for Hewlett-Packard shareholders.
As the museum was preparing to open late last week, with workmen hauling around ladders and a staff member stocking the gift-shop shelves with Mr. Pamuk's books, the author himself was going full tilt, giving orders and making last-minute tweaks as he walked a reporter through the displays.
The request was the latest step in the S.E.C.'s effort to guide the exchanges and their member stock brokers toward a revision of their pricing sys tem that will be acceptable to everyone concerned, including the Justice Department's anti trust division.
Small-cap indexes have a built-in outmigration as member stocks' market caps grow too large to be kept.
In other words, the monthly returns on 80% of the S&P 500 member stocks fell within 10 percentage points of the index.
Founders: Mark Diks, 45, and Pieter Diks, 44, board member Stock options: 12% interest in company Why on the list: The Diks brothers now run 400 stores in the Netherlands' formerly fragmented bedroom-furniture market.
