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Show HN: My weekend project for those who obsessively follow AAPL, GOOG & MSFT

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I'd love to see net income in those columns!

From Wikipedia:

AAPL: $ 14.01 billion [1]

MSFT: $ 18.760 billion [2]

GOOG: $ 8.505 billion [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

Couldn't you just use the multi-quote search option on Yahoo! Finance? Streaming quotes, charts, multiple views and de-duping of news articles.

http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG/view/v1 http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG/view/dv

Want to add more quotes? Just add it to the URL (or use the Add Symbol option on the page) http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG,YHOO/view/v1

I hope you've got tech4some.com registered, so you can add facebook in April 2012.

Sadly, I don't think Facebook has the right to sit among these companies. All three of these companies push out software that has a substantial impact on the world and push out more than just one product.

I know Facebook has made a definite impact on the world, but what else does it do except for being facebook. They really haven't actually given anything back to the world except for social aspects.

This might be a losing argument, but I can't see facebook sitting among any of these companies in competition. These three are in direct competition with one another. While facebook partners with MSoft.

Are the articles meant to be sorted by their respective companies (like the financial info)? Because I see some stories that are meant for one but under the column of another. Maybe I am misunderstanding how this is organized?

Any any event, I like the idea a good deal. It would be neat to see this expanded and perhaps customizable so that users could pick which companies to place in their "3some".

Yeah, I too found the same issue. But overall a great implementation.

The news articles come from Yahoo! Finance's RSS feeds for each ticker symbol. Some stories may be duplicated across multiple companies, and I'm currently not doing anything special to detect dupes.

(Btw, you will notice the same new stories in the iPhone Stocks app)

For explicit linking articles to stock data you might want to use something like this http://explainum.blogspot.com/p/sample-widgets.html

Disclaimer: I'm founder of Explainum. The service is still in development phase but we're looking for early users.

How much of that AAPL stock is owned by MSFT?

none. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/05/apples-stock-r...

Thanks. Didn't realize they had been sold. Not sure why people are downvoting my honest question though.

I think because that information could have been easily found on the web (lmgtfy)

Nothing technical of value here; Just being frank.

At the very least, include P/E, EPS and Beta.

There's Google/Yahoo Finance and many other sites for that ;)

I think the idea is that anyone interested enough in these companies to use this site would also be interested in / see the value in that data.

Cool project. Identifying common news and showing them as one that spans across will look awesome

Interesting, 5 year change: AAPL +400% AMZN +400% GOOG +40% MSFT +4%

It's hard to grow when you have +95% of market share.

Very cool. Would love to be able to compare other companies too (even a simple textbox that lets me change one of the columns by entering a different ticker symbol would work).

Neat. Do the columns/wording ("92b more than Microsoft") change dynamically if the order changes (not that it's happening anytime soon)?

Yes, the stock price, market caps, difference in value and other numbers all update dynamically (approximately every 5 seconds) when the stock market is open.

do hackers really care about stock prices of major corporations ? The fact this is on the front page lends to the discussion of the decline of HN. Anyways.. good stock and news aggregator.

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