Charles Schwab

Silicon Valley Vets Aim to Bring Personal Financial Services to the Masses

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 20, 2011 at 12:32 pm PT

Bill Harris, former CEO of Intuit and PayPal, is unveiling his latest company today: Personal Capital, which melds technology with financial advisory services.

Yahoo’s Pitch to Advertisers: We Sell Ginormous Ads

Peter Kafka in Media on January 11, 2010 at 8:14 am PT

Another ad from Yahoo to people who buy ads on Yahoo: Look at all the great ads people have bought on Yahoo! But this clip also works as a pretty good survey of advertising across the Web.

Voices

Return of Day Traders Drives Rise in Volume

Tom Lauricella, Jane J. Kim and Mary Pilon, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 17, 2009 at 8:40 am PT

Even as mom-and-pop investors sit out the rally, short-term players–including some classic individual day traders–appear to be making a comeback. Trading volume surged 14 percent or more last month from July at online brokerage firms Charles Schwab Corp., TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. and E*Trade Financial Corp. Electronic trader Knight Capital Group Inc. also posted a 7.7 percent increase.

The OpenTable Binge and Purge

John Paczkowski in News on May 25, 2009 at 1:31 pm PT

For a company whose business is built on the recession-brutalized fine-dining industry, OpenTable’s IPO last week was impressive. Must have made for quite a windfall for the company’s larger investors. Especially those who took the opportunity to dump their stakes in their entirety.

Yahoo PR Head Jill Nash to Depart the Company

Kara Swisher in News on February 2, 2009 at 2:44 pm PT

Jill Nash, Yahoo’s chief communications officer, has told CEO Carol Bartz and other Yahoo staff this afternoon that she is leaving the company. Nash, sources said, told staff that she does not have any plans to move to another company immediately, so the reasons for her departure are unclear. BoomTown would have to guess that Nash is simply completely spent from her past two years at Yahoo, which have been very fraught from a public relations perspective, to say the least.