Billion-Dollar Blunders: How False Online Reports Sink Stocks

Posted by burento on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @11:52PM
from the wired.com dept.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st_rumors

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Re:Billion-Dollar Blunders: How False Online Reports Sink St... by webtickle on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @11:59PM (#339715)

WOW, that is a lot of money lost. I wonder is someone is going to get sued because of it.

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Re:Billion-Dollar Blunders: How False Online Reports Sink St... by muimui69 on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @12:01AM (#339717)

I really wonder about how they could control this though. So much power based on someones words and yet people have to have the right to make mistakes too. no?

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