The FT.MarketWatch.com version, like its U.S. counterpart, will offer investors financial news, charts, and ticker information, but its forthcoming bureaus, in Berlin, Hamburg, Paris and Stockholm or Helsinki, will focus on interpreting events in Europe's high-technology industries.
The trampled route we follow is a rolling ticker of information, announcing that all is well with the herd.
Although services like Twitter have been built on the idea of a real-time ticker of information — and indeed the very existence of Buffer is meant to help push the rush of that river along — there is another school of thought that says we can take in more when we see one thing at at a time.
Based in West Hollywood on busy Santa Monica Boulevard, the company has gone so far as to place on the outside of the building a ticker that streams information about the "prices" at which movies and celebrities are trading.
The three Imax films in the 69-foot-diameter domed theater, a new small theater for the museum's own programming, the central atrium with multimedia news and information tickers, the handsome redesign: all promise to be popular lures.
Every morning after waking I would lie there for a moment, unwilling to open my eyes, unwilling to confront what was always fading away (the lettering on Mother's Day cards, the information ticker-taping over the panel on the digital radio), and I would feel it again, fresh and appalling, as the day's adrenaline began to barrel through my veins.
Even if Bitcoin trading won't become the main activity on Wall Street, the ticker creates another data point for information purposes.
And the public should have access to a new type of electronic ticker that provides market information in language that all can understand, not just the insiders.
Likewise, businesses that want an Internet-connected ticker, displaying various business information, either publicly for customers or in an office, are also a target market.
If brands are dependent on using the ticker to push their information, it's unclear how well that work.
About a dozen old-economy companies 3M mmm, Boeing TICKERR), Dow Chemicals (TICKER), DuPont, Ford f, Honeywell, Monsanto (TICKER), Polaroid (TICKER), Procter & Gamble, Rockwell (TICKER), SAIC (TICKER), and TRW (TICKER)–agreed and have become Yet2.com's original sponsors.
