Wikinvest lets you find financial data with new Bling search engine
Wikinvest has been taking on popular finance sites, especially Yahoo Finance, since its redesign in June. Now it’s adding a feature that Yahoo lacks — a finance-focused search engine, which it calls “Bling.”
Visitors to sites like Yahoo and Wikinvest are often looking for a specific piece of data, says co-founder Parker Conrad — to use a phrase that Conrad is fond of, they’re “spearfishing for specific information,” such as Google’s revenue in 2008 or Apple’s… Continue Reading
AlphaClone helps investors do their homework
AlphaClone, a web site that tracks investments made by prominent hedge funds and money managers, launched today to give other investors the insight they need to make good decisions of their own. Armed with the information found on the site, users should be able to virtually replicate the holdings of more than 230 high-profile funds — and then track their performance against a retinue of indexes and simulations.
For example, as a user, you can see… Continue Reading
Wikinvest launches wiki for investing, raises cash
Wikinvest, a site that allows investors to collaborate by editing pages about stocks and other opportunities, has raised $2.5 million in a first round of capital.
The San Francisco company launched two months ago. The investment was made by Silicon Valley venture firm DCM.
It’s not clear how this company can distinguish itself, given the large number of other Web 2.0 investment sites (i.e., CakeFinancial, Stockpickr, SocialPicks) and financial news sites (i.e., Seeking Alpha, Monitor110) that have… Continue Reading