US stocks tumbled Monday amid concerns over the fate of the struggling car industry, which will be given a last chance to restructure operations or lose government support. ...

Wall Street’s March rally has been stunted by the White House rejection of turnaround plans from General Motors and Chrysler. ...

A Linkstock of items I’ve been meaning to post: Measuring arbitrage in milliseconds (Dow Jones Newswires) — High-frequency traders (who do the majority of the share volume these days) talk about arbitraging between one exchange and another that is milliseconds faster in trade execution. How to look at the Dow (Portfolio) — Fel...

1 EUR buys 1.3193 US dollar (USD) - The reference exchange rates are published both by electronic market information providers and on the ECB’s website shortly after the concertation procedure has been completed. Reference rates are published according to the same calendar as the TARGET system. ...

Since we had discussed the Two ways to Optimize your RSS feed , we had been angling for some supercool RSS feed Readers, news reader or aggregator. People asked us about the best RSS reader that could bring in all the news headlines, blogs, vlogs and such stuffs to their system. Not all of them [...] Source : Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog (su...

After a seemingly endless odyssey of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) reader tests which led from web browser based readers like those in Mozilla Firefox or Opera to website based RSS readers like Google Reader to desktop RSS readers I finally ended up with FeedDemon. FeedDemon offered a wealth of features but more importantly the speed [...] Source...

In a 7-0 vote, the RSS Advisory Board has approved six edits to the RSS specification , the documentation for the RSS 2.0 format. These edits do not affect the definitions of the elements and attributes that constitute RSS. They were purely administrative changes that improve the readability of the document, fix a broken link and factual errors, an...

Yes, since some days, the RSS feeds of “ Total Skype Downloads ” and “ Users Online Now ” are working again. However … The download counter stopped on Tuesday March 17 at the number of 1,168,075,188 downloads. Then on Friday 27, it suddenly began to count again, but starting around 500 million downloads, and some hours later it jumped up ...

Google Reader gets a good mention in my RSS article, Using RSS Tools to Feed your Information Needs , but deserves an even deeper dive. This is a follow-up to that article, along with my recent posts on Integrating content with websites , and Managing Content with Pipes . We’ve established that an RSS Reader helps you manage internet informat...

The “Splices” function of FeedBlitz has been extended in two new ways, giving you yet more choices as to how to integrate external content into your feed. RSS Feed Merge As well as our “off the shelf” integration of Twitter, Disqus, Backlinks, YouTube and a dozen or so other services, we now have an RSS feed option. Enter th...