Posted December 17, 2012, 7:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
The Nasdaq, a group of the top 100 non-financial companies that trade on the stock exchange, recently updated their index last week to include Facebook. But Facebook and other additions meant that some will have to be bumped from the…
Posted June 6, 2012, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Officials at Nasdaq are preparing to offer compensation to firms that lost money due to a computer glitch on the opening morning of Facebook’s IPO. It’s been estimated that traders lost a collective sum of over $100 million but the…
Posted May 23, 2012, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Facebook’s record-setting IPO was the talk of the town leading up to last Friday when shares were made available for purchase on the NASDAQ. To say that the process went smoothly would be the understatement of the century. The IPO…
Posted May 21, 2012, 10:50 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. faces scrutiny after shares of Facebook Inc. were plagued by delays and mishandled orders on its very first day of trading. Apparently computers used to drive the auctions were overwhelmed by order cancellations and updates in…
Posted February 5, 2011, 2:10 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in IT Security
Hackers repeatedly made their way into the computer network that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year. The part of the system that executes trades was not breached but other parts of Nasdaq's infrastructure were accessed, though it's…
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