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  • noun a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter

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  • Business did boom and the dow did not have the bubble that the nasdaq did.

    Think Progress » Ron Paul’s CPAC Win Highlights Raging Rift Between Libertarians And Social Conservatives 2010

  • Stanza, a book reading application offered in Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) iPhone App Store since July, has been downloaded more than 395,000 times and continues to be installed at an average rate of about 5,000 copies a day, according to Portland, Ore. -based Lexcycle, the three-person start-up that created the reading software.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Grace Lee 2008

  • Stanza, a book reading application offered in Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) iPhone App Store since July, has been downloaded more than 395,000 times and continues to be installed at an average rate of about 5,000 copies a day, according to Portland, Ore. -based Lexcycle, the three-person start-up that created the reading software.

    IPhone Steals Lead Over Kindle (Forbes) Grace Lee 2008

  • The only hitch is that U.S. cell phone users are still relatively uncomfortable with using their phone for anything but making calls, largely because the phone's small screens make searching the Web difficult, at least compared with big handhelds such as the Palm Treo and Research in Motion's nasdaq: RIMM - news - people BlackBerry.

    Internet News: Mobile Archives 2009

  • Media Rights Technologies (MRT) and BlueBeat. com have issued cease and desist letters to both companies and to Adobe Systems Inc (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people) and Real Networks -- which produce the Adobe Flash Player and Real Player respectively -- for actively avoiding their X1 SeCure Recording Control, which they said is an effective copyright protection system.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • The highest-paid boss of the 500 companies we tracked: Apple nasdaq: AAPL - news - people chief Steve Jobs.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Steve Hulett 2008

  • In March, the nasdaq, driven by Internet stocks, closed above 5,000 for the first time ever — up from 3,000 just four months earlier.

    Postscript 2008

  • Between March 10, 2000, and October 10, 2002, the nasdaq Composite Index, which lists most technology and Internet companies, lost 78 percent of its value.

    How the Web Was Won Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb 2008

  • The highest-paid boss of the 500 companies we tracked: Apple nasdaq: AAPL - news - people chief Steve Jobs.

    The Wise Old Movie Exec Steve Hulett 2008

  • Has anyone noticed the Market was up over 400 or nasdaq up over 100?

    Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 9/18/08 2008

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