Comments on: Forbes.com Uses Xignite Plug & Play to Bypass NASDAQ Headache

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:02:43 +0000

[...] jointly announced how the latter was integrating the company’s data streams: Google, CNBC, and WSJ pay the NASDAQ a sizable chunk of money [...]

By: Realtime Money Flows: Xignite Supplies On-Demand Financial Market Data

Realtime Money Flows: Xignite Supplies On-Demand Financial Market Data — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:08:34 +0000

[...] what we wrote when Xignite and Forbes.com jointly announced how the latter was integrating the company’s data streams: Google, CNBC, and WSJ pay the NASDAQ a sizable chunk of money for a single cumbersome stream of [...]

By: Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:55:27 +0000

These kinds of developments are great news for the industry.

The holy grail is a situation where data is passed through relatively open, generic standards, so that API or widget lock-in is no longer a business model (as all tools speak the same language, and are therefore more interchangeable). Then the selling point becomes the actual features, quality and pricing of the services, and the market takes over.

By: Leo Chan

Leo Chan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:46:57 +0000

The headache is not really a NASDAQ-specific issue. The big feed problem is pervasive in the financial services industry. The reason is that the complex, high volume infrastructure required for low latency trading doesn’t offer easy access to data over the cloud, which is what Web publishers like Forbes require.

By: liliie

liliie — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:55:32 +0000

to me it sounds like they pretty much depend from xgnite to get a real time service at leat now they get credit for something like this