Google shares have been up and down in after-hours trading, but largely have hovered around the closing price of $639.62 soon after Google released its earnings report for the third quarter of 2007. Google beat analyst expectations by a slim margin.

Shares of EBAY slid six percent this morning even though the company beat estimates.

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Lately a lot of people who used to get on the Digg homepage constantly have been complaining that they can’t make the homepage anymore. In most cases these people are doing the exact same thing as they used to do before. Here is how you can still get on the homepage:

“Online stock trading” has seen a recent boom since the inception of T.D.Waterhouse Online ETrade etc. Since then there has been a host of online web applications that provide information for “online stock trading”.

The first time I learned of the word c-o-l-l-a-b-o-r-a-t-i-o-n, was probably around…uh…I don’t know, maybe around the age of eight. My teacher had a tough time explaining its concept to me during a science project, “Kevin, collaboration is not making your partner do all the work while you tie his shoelaces to the chair!

There is a question which is sometimes asked by those new to the financial markets, and even occasionally debated by experienced participants.

Netflix is forging a new weapon to employ in its eternal war against Blockbuster. Or, depending on one’s point of view, it’s creating a nifty new product for its customers. The item in question is an Internet-connected, set-top box that would download movies overnight, eliminating the (small) hassle of mail service.

TechCrunch has more information on AIM Pages, AOL’s effort to court the MySpace crowd.

Every investor has his own take on “wise” investing. These suggestions come from experience, and are meant for the momentum investor rather than those who “buy and forget”.

Writing Covered Calls is a conservative strategy where you buy a stock that you would like to invest in and then write a call option against that stock.

Google was as good as gold in 2005, but any cracks that appear in the Googleplex facade could send hedge funds fleeing for safer pastures and pressure shares of GOOG downward.

It’s not a pre-season NCAA basketball exhibition matchup, but a case where the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused an Estonian financial firm of spidering confidential Business Wire information and profiting on trades.

A $100 million donation to charity will see a shareholder suit against Larry Ellison come to a close.

Microsoft’s profits nearly doubled in the last quarter compared to those of the year before.

Light sweet crude jumped a 1.50 today to $55.70 a barrel in midday trading and Brent crude jumped $1.32 to $55.33.

Investors have lost nearly $100 million due to mutual fund trading abuses at Putnam Investments, a consultant figured out.

China combined with Hong Kong has taken over the U.S. as Japan’s largest trading partner for the first time.

After 105 days Google finally updated PR. And it’s about time. There for awhile you couldn’t swing a dead cat and not hit an anxious post on a seo forum wondering where the update was.

eBay announced the results of its tender offer in Korea for publicly-held common shares of the Korean online trading company.

The American Stock Exchange (Amex) will launch trading in options on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 on the Pacific Exchange listed stock of Archipelago Holdings.

The American Stock Exchange (Amex) has announced it will allocate trading in Google Inc. options to AGS Specialist Partners. The Amex will provide full details of the options listing shortly.