Only three business schools had such operations in 1997, according to Rise Display, which installs tickers, video screens and trading software for universities and financial institutions.
Users can add widgets containing graphs, stock tickers, video streams, and other content, which they can arrange in whatever way they'd like.
Back then we lauded its "sexy" financial dashboards, which are customizable with widgets containing graphs, stock tickers, video stream, and other content (the company's API is available for developers to create investing tools for sale through 8 Securities' app store).
YET ANOTHER TECH SITE Working from the dubious proposition that the world needs another Web site devoted to technology news, Yahoo Finance this week introduced Tech Ticker, a video blog by Sarah Lacy, a BusinessWeek columnist, and Aaron Task, formerly of TheStreet.com.
Yahoo Finance is organized into sections: investing; news and opinion; personal finance; customized portfolio tracking; and "Tech Ticker," short video features that have supplied an average of 450,000 streams a day in recent months, Yahoo says.
All that clever stuff you see, like voting, live tickers, live video etc is, for us, simple.
Air raid sirens, stock tickers, Pong video games -- each one carries significance for the generation that grew up with it, but once that generation dies, the sound becomes lifeless.
By simply hovering over a Ticker story, a user can comment, like your Page, subscribe to your Profile, view the photo or status update, and even watch videos you post, in a pop-up window.
Ian Freed, vice president for the Kindle at Amazon, said he expected developers would devise a wide range of programs, including utilities like calculators, stock tickers and casual video games.
Get on the U-Bahn at Stadtmitte, between the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the Topography of Terror Gestapo museum, and glance up at the train's video news ticker: "80 years ago today PEN Club-Berlin forced into exile".
