Google Finance launched
The search advertising company launched its financial news site last night, with an interesting take on meshing stock charts and news related to a company.
The new
Google Finance presents a very uncluttered look to the first-time visitor. A Market Summary of four major North American indexes shows their prices and price changes with a Flash-based chart, and a list of finance-related news items appears below the summary.
That very simple look quickly yields its more sophisticated features. Mousing over each of the indexes in the market summary changes the chart to match the index being selected. Entering a stock symbol into the search box brings up information one expects to see for a publicly-traded company: stock price, market cap, trading volume, and the usual ratios.
News about the company appears on the right, with each news item tagged with a letter. Those letters appear on the stock chart below the stock price. Here, Google has neatly crafted its chart with click and drag functionality familiar to users of Google Maps.
Users can drag the chart back and forth to see the peaks and valleys of a stock's performance in the market. On top of that, a resizable window over a five-year chart of the stock price can be widened or narrowed. That changes the part of the stock chart displayed.
Those letter tags for news items appear on the chart, where users can see how the stock performed on the day of that news event. Clicking the letter next to a news item highlights it in blue on the chart. By clicking a letter on the chart, the related news item on the right will have its corresponding letter highlight. The news will scroll to display the item if it is not currently in view.
The news draws its content from Google News, and visitors can get probably most of the information they want about a company without ever scrolling down the page past the news and chart. But there is a lot more information to find below the chart and news.
Company facts, a summary, financials, and the management team appear in sections. Mousing over a member of the management team displays a picture and more information about the individual. Further down the page, company related posts found in Google Blog Search appear. A section on related companies show how the competition has performed.
Users can also choose from links within a section of more resources, like analyst estimates or SEC filings. Finally, Google offers discussion groups for each company, and dedicated a section of the
Finance FAQ to discussing how those work.
Google has people watching these discussion groups, to ensure posts comply with guidelines they have set forth. While primarily they have been focused on providing a civil discussion environment, Google does not want pump-and-dump touts working the groups either.
Google's noted engineer and blogger
Matt Cutts posted about one aspect of the search on Google Finance he particularly likes:
If you do a search for Lexmark, the search will show you an info page for Lexmark (stock symbol: LXK). If you didn't want a company profile page, over in the top right is a "Find more results for lexmark" link so you can search for Lexmark Canada or whatever. At most finance pages, if you typed "Lexmark" into the search box, you'll get a message like "That's not a stock symbol! Click over here to search for a stock symbol." You end up clicking 3-4 times, when the logical behavior is to give you the best matching stock profile, then give you the option to do a deeper search.
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Cheap International Phone Calls From UK
How to make cheap international telephone calls from UK - many of us searching how to do a long distance telephone calls for a penny or two. Main telecom companies like BT and NTL are ready to take your pants down with their charges for your international calls. Alternative would be to use a phone cards or a small telecom companies who specializes in international calls.
Some people have heard or even use alternative telecom companies to make cheap international phone calls from UK, like Telediscount, Ratebuster, Dialwise, Pennyphone etc. They are known as dial through companies and all you need to do to take advantage of these savings is to dial the dial through access number. Different phone companies specializes in a different types of international phone call deals, which means that the cheap long distance call plan that works for one country won't necessarily work for another. Most telecom companies charge different telephone call prices at different times of day for local and national calls while others offer really cheap international phone calls from as little as 1p or 2p per minute. For example you can call USA, most of western Europe (France, Germany, Spain etc) for as little as 1p per minute – a big savings on your bill!
How to make cheap international calls from your landline using call through companies:
1. Dial low cost access number for your destination
2. At the prompt dial the international phone number starting with "00" and destination
3. Your international call's low rate will then be conveniently charged to your current phone bill.
For example to make a call to Ireland: dial chosen company's telephone number, wait for connection, dial you destination telephone number 00353 123 456789
With more than 15 companies available it is not an easy task to find out which company offers best rate for your destination and prices often change on a daily basis.
Cheap International Phone Call website and others has been created to provide you with a complete, comprehensive and most of all easy to use guides to the cheapest international call prices offered by telecom service providers to all countries around the world from the UK. With more than 16 companies available to chose from, long distance calls becoming easy and cheap everyday activity.
All the companies reviewed on comparison sites requires no sign up or account, you don't need a credit card, you do not need to change your phone provider, purchase any special devices or even buy a phone card. Using dial through low-cost access numbers to make your international and long distance calls you can save huge amounts on your phone bill.
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Suzuki To Enter world rally championship with SX4 WRC
Suzuki Motor Corporation has announced on Tuesday, 28 February, 2006, at the Geneva International Motor Show that it will enter the World Rally Championship (WRC) from August, 2007 onwards.
Suzuki will use its all new Sports X-over vehicle SX4 as the basis for its WRC challenge. SX4, also launched today at the Geneva Show, is another all new and revolutionary concept from Suzuki. The Suzuki WRC should be based on the model presented at the Geneva Motor Show, a car that Suzuki developed in partnership with Fiat.
Suzuki’s decision to participate in the WRC – which, alongside F1, is one of the world’s most popular motor sport championships – follows on from its very successful involvement with its teams in the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC).
Outline of the Suzuki SX4 WRC
The JWRC version will now be the focus of further detailed development and testing to increase its competitive potential to the maximum in order that it can prove to be a worthy WRC challenger from August, 2007 onwards.
Full technical details of new Suzuki SX4 WRC will be announced progressively prior to its first competitive appearances. Currently development of its power unit and power train is well advanced and the prototype car is equipped with a new 2.0 litre turbo charged J20 engine. This engine already provides torque of 65kg.m at 3,000rpm and 320bhp at 4,000-5,000 rpm.
The new all-wheel drive system developed for the WRC car by Suzuki includes mechanical differentials front and rear and an electronic differential located in the centre. Power is transmitted via a 5-speed sequential gearbox.
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