Intel is the big Kahuna now, but Texas Instruments is all over the digital future

The Failure of Jeff Skilling’s Deregulation 
Like a huckster setting up a tent to hock snake oil, Jeffrey Skilling strode into a regulatory hearing in California 12 years ago hell-bent on making a sale.

Entrepreneurs are in a danger zone when their activities are incomprehensible to the general public. Profits that appear without obvious explanation are suspect, and the entrepreneur is likely to find public hostility accompanying the suspicion.

A Bigger Day-Trading Brokerage … Great 
Just what the world needs — a bigger day-trading brokerage. According to an Associated Press story, “Two brokerage companies that cater to active traders are joining forces to create a company that will be a large player in the day-trading business.” The parties are Schonfeld & Co., the retail-trading unit of closely held Schonfeld Group Holdings, and Lightspeed Professional Trading, a unit of

Cadence Pharma Shares Up Slightly in IPO 
Shares of Cadence Pharmaceuticals Inc. rose modestly Wednesday in first-day trading for the drug developer. In afternoon trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, the stock of the San Diego-based company climbed 29 cents, or 3.2 percent, from its initial public offering price of $9.

Forbes - Ambitious Macquarie bought ING (nyse: IND - news - people )’s Asian stock-trading business in 2004 and raised eyebrows earlier this year when it tried to pick up the London Stock Exchange on the cheap. Earlier this year, Macquarie

The Interesting History Of The Stock Market
Best Syndication - NASDAQ is a relatively new Stock Trading System that has been computerized since its inception, where market makers normally lead trades. It used to be that more risky stocks were traded on the NASDAQ than on the NYSE, but that distinction is fading.