Investools Headquarters Moving; Symbol to Change
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Salt Lake-based Investools Inc. said Friday it will move its corporate headquarters to New York City and change its ticker symbol because it has completed its merger with thinkorswim Group Inc.
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Corrects company name to Advanced Micro Devices in first paragraph
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The software maker is in the midst of a major revamp to its search product. Over the coming weeks, the company will make more changes, including to the engine itself. Whether the changes add up to more eyeballs is an open question.
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The Wall Street Journal is moving to a smaller width and making other design changes in an effort to save money, draw in new readers, and make the paper available in more places.
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Portal will reorganize into three new units; COO to leave.
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(InfoWorld) - Apparently it's not enough that Sun peppers any and all discussions of its hardware and software products with liberal mentions of its Java programming language, now the vendor wants Wall Street to sit up and take more note of its homegrown technology too. As of Monday, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s ticker on the Nasdaq stock exchange will be Java, as the vendor turns its back on the SUNW ticker, which has served the company since it went public in 1986. Sun announced the upcoming change on Thursday. Sun had its origins on the Stanford campus where three of the California university's graduate students Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, and Scott McNealy, along with Berkeley graduate Bill Joy, came together to found the company in 1982. The name Sun originally stood for Stanford University Network, while the W indicated Sun's first products: workstations. In a Thursday posting on his blog, Sun president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz heralded the ticker change as recognizing that the Java brand is much better known than Sun, the company behind it. "The number of people who know Java swamps the number of people who know Sun," he wrote, pointing to the technology's ubiquity as it's present in most of today's PCs, mobile devices and embedded systems. While the SUNW symbol is well known in the financial community, it represents "nostalgic value" and "the past," according to Schwartz. By contrast, the Java brand is "inseparably a part of Sun (and our profitability)," he added. Schwartz was careful to state that the ticker name change wasn't indicative of any change in strategy for Sun, which will continue to offer a mix of products. "But we are no longer simply a workstation company, nor a company whose products can be limited by one category -- and Java does a better job of capturing exactly that sentiment than any other four letter symbol," he wrote. "Java means limitless opportunity -- for our software, systems, storage, service and microelectronics businesses." Initial reactions to Sun's ticker change were mostly unfavorable -- "a terrible idea," "a waste of money," "a stupid move," "a joke," and "worst idea ever," according to most of the comments appended to Schwartz's blog. Commentators saw the Java ticker as limiting, not expressive of Sun's overall product portfolio and also very much yesterday's technology. While Java has been widely adopted, its ubiquity and its 12 years in the market add up to a dated technology, they wrote. Sun began work on what later became Java in 1991 as a project code-named "Oak" initially for use in set-top boxes. The company then re-evaluated the work it had done and repurposed the effort as a new programming language with the mantra of "Write once, run anywhere." In other words, developers could create a program in Java and then have it run without alternation on a wide variety of hardware platforms. Sun unveiled Java in 1995, and, after some initial hiccups, the vendor saw widespread adoption of the language by developers working at all different sizes of companies from very large enterprises to small embedded systems startups. After committing to open-source Java in May 2006,Â Sun finally began making Java freely available in NovemberÂ under both its own open source license, CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License), and the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2). The move is in line with Sun's promise to eventually make more of its software available as open source technologies.
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A sign that your stock's run is done.
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I started noticing some changes in the layout of  Adsense units running in my other blog as early as last week, but it&#8217;s only now that the Inside Adsense blog issued an official announcement. Adsense publishers now have the option to further customize the look of their Adsense units by specifying the shapes as [...]
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Blog: Company hopes to improve upon existing toolbars already on the market.
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AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc , said on Monday it will move its corporate headquarters to New York City from Dulles, Virginia, amid a realignment of its advertising business.
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A new acquisition may lead to differentiation.
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CEO quits to collaborate Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has declared a change in priorities, deciding to focus less on employment and more on legal issues.â¦
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Kirkland & Ellis, an international law firm that has its largest office in Chicago, is moving into a new data center. Here's how everyone, from the builder to the landlord and the IT department, is approaching the design of its new facility.
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New group to be called Royal Dutch Shell; to be listed in UK but headquartered in Netherlands. Royal Dutch/Shell today announced the boldest restructuring in its 97-year history in a move that will combine
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AOL will move its headquarters from Dulles, Va., next spring as tries to retool itself as an advertising company that competes with the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
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The software company has undergone an extreme makeover.
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The Phoenix Coyotes have seen plenty of change in recent years. They moved into a state-of-the-art building, underwent an ownership shuffle and switched colors.