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Zecco Takes Home Two Top Honors

tonyleachsf — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:05:00 GMT

The past few days have been pretty good for Zecco. On Monday, we were kindly chosen as the best online broker from the great readers of the Five Cent Nickel blog ( see coverage here ). It’s a huge honor to beat out competitors like Scottrade and E*Trade as people's favorites...(read more)

Zecco Is On A Roll, Next Stop: Finovate Startup

michiel — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:00:00 GMT

The dust of the Web 2.0 Expo has hardly settled. Still, no time to sit back and relax as Finovate Startup is in town on April 29. What is this event about? In Finovate's own terms: "Come see dozens of the hottest financial technology startups show off their products in a fast, fun, single-day format in San Francisco...(read more)

Impressions From the Web 2.0 Expo

tonyleachsf — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:32:00 GMT

One of the most encouraging and motivating aspects of the first two days’ worth of sessions I attended was the clear message that success is driven by delivering an awesome user experience. Words like beautiful, delightful, and polite seemed to dominate the discourse...(read more)

Zecco at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco

michiel — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Zecco is proud to be associated with the Web 2.0 movement. Why? Because we are true believers that Web 2.0 is not just a fancy label or a temporary fad. Web 2.0 is about harnessing the collective intelligence of people using the Internet, and how this can enable businesses to deliver unparalleled user experiences...(read more)

Zecco Keeps The New Features Coming!

michiel — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

We’re hard at work to make Zecco the most exciting destination for your investing research, so we’re pleased to let you know of some major improvements to the Community and Quotes & Research sections of the site. Make sure to check out them out! Personal Dashboard As soon as you sign in, you’re taken to your new personal dashboard, which gives you instant visibility into the markets, your portfolio at Zecco Trading, and the discussions taking place throughout the community...(read more)

Please Join Me in Saying Goodbye to Zecco-Jon

michiel — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Dear Investors, Zecco-Jon, our valued Community MC, is stepping down as Zecco Associate. This means that we will not see him around as often in our great Community, talking investing, helping people out, moderating the Forums, etc. We will dearly miss him of course...(read more)

In Remembrance of Our Good Friend Barry Fischer

Jeroen Veth — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:22:00 GMT

Dear Investors, It is with great sadness I have to announce that a good friend, a great colleague and a true Zecconian passed away last night. Barry Fischer, our Legal Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer lost a long and hard fought battle against cancer...(read more)

Zecco at BarCampBankSF This Weekend

tonyleachsf — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:15:00 GMT

No, it’s not an excuse to go to some bars on a Saturday. A BarCamp is basically a casual, ad-hoc gathering for people to “share and learn in an open environment.” BarCampBankSF is meant to foster innovations and the creation of new business models in the world of banking and finance...(read more)

Chris Anderson On Free & $0.00 Business Models

tonyleachsf — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:17:00 GMT

Chris Anderson is one of my heroes. He’s into lego’s , remote control planes – a fellow geek, I suppose. But he’s also managed to define two major trends that have altered business trends over the past couple of decades...(read more)

At Money:Tech – Our Panel on Collective Money Management

tonyleachsf — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:23:00 GMT

In the second morning of the O’Reilly Money:Tech conference, Zecco’s very own Michiel de Boer joined several others in a panel titled “Collective Money Management,” moderated by O’Reilly Media’s Jimmy Guterman . The panel focused on how community intelligence can make a difference in people’s investing habits, and included Ken Kam (Marketocracy), Steven A...(read more)

At Money:Tech - Reuters on the Revolution in Financial Information

tonyleachsf — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:20:00 GMT

To kick off Day 2 of this year’s Money:Tech conference in New York City, Tim O’Reilly sat down with Devin Wenig from Reuters to discuss how new data sources (and better availability of existing data sources) is changing the way people get information for investing...(read more)

At Money:Tech – PredictWallStreet

tonyleachsf — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:56:00 GMT

One of the best 5-minutes at Money:Tech was a too-brief presentation given by Craig Kaplan, CEO of PredictWallStreet , in the morning of Day 2. Like the Motley Fool CAPS community, PredictWallStreet (PWS) community members predict whether a stock price will rise or fall – but in this community, they only look to what will happen the next day...(read more)

At Money:Tech – CAPS Successes

tonyleachsf — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:31:00 GMT

The final session for Day One of O’Reilly’s Money:Tech conference was a presentation by John Keeling from the Motley Fool’s CAPS community . CAPS community members rate stocks and make predictions on whether or not the stock will go up or down over various periods of time...(read more)

At Money:Tech – Day 1 Highlights

tonyleachsf — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:12:00 GMT

In previous posts, we focused on the conversation presented in some of our favorite sessions. There’s been so much more interesting discussions – both on stage and off – that we have a “highlights” post just to get to it all...(read more)

At Money:Tech – Building a Better Information Beast

tonyleachsf — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:27:00 GMT

Apparently we're all news junkies – and that's a hard thing to avoid, especially on the Internet. So how do we deal with all the information coming at us? That was the theme of this Money:Tech session featuring Randall Winn (Capital IQ), Robert Passarella (Bear Stearns), Kevin Pomplun (SkyGrid), and Renny Monaghan (Salesforce...(read more)