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18 unusual facts about NASDAQ


2005 NASDAQ-100 Open

The 2005 Miami Masters (also known as the NASDAQ-100 Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts.

AIMC

Altra Industrial Motion, a global manufacturer of power transmission products, traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol AIMC

Back Bay Restaurant Group

Although no longer public, when the company was listed on the NASDAQ exchange, it used the symbol "PAPA".

Bravo Brio Restaurant Group

The company owns about 90 restaurants and trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol BBRG.

Early 2000s recession

The actual burst of the stock market bubble occurred in the form of the NASDAQ crash in March 2000.

Elscint

In 1971, Fred Adler, an East Coast venture capitalist, invested in Elscint and 1972 helped the company undertake an initial public offering on the NASDAQ, making Elscint the first Israeli company to list on the NASDAQ.

EnerNOC

EnerNOC went public in 2007 on the NASDAQ stock exchange at US$26 per share followed by a rally to US$50 per share in spite of reporting two consecutive annual losses.

Environment One Corporation

The company was listed under the symbol "EONE" on the NASDAQ exchange in 1990, until its purchase.

Inteliquent

Headquartered in Chicago, Inteliquent is a public company and traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol IQNT.

Madge Networks

To fuel the company's growth, Madge Networks went public in 1993, offering more than six million shares on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

MindSpring

It established its first point of presence outside Atlanta in September 1995, and went public on NASDAQ in March 1996 with the ticker symbol MSPG.

NASDAQ

In February 2011, in the wake of an announced merger of NYSE Euronext with Deutsche Börse, speculation developed that Nasdaq and IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) could mount a counter-bid of their own for NYSE.

OzEmail

On 28 May 1996, OzEmail became the first Australian tech stock ever to list on the NASDAQ.

PSINet

In May 2001, the company was delisted from NASDAQ because the company's stock had traded below one dollar for 30 consecutive days.

Radware

Radware, which is a member of the Rad Group of companies, is a public company and its shares are traded on NASDAQ.

Ross Technology

The company's stock fell during this period, and there were several warnings from NASDAQ in 1997 that the company would be delisted, which Ross avoided until 1998, when the company's stock fell below NASDAQ requirements.

The Sunlandic Twins

"Everyday Feels Like Sunday", from the bonus EP, was featured on a NASDAQ commercial.

Warner Chilcott

In 2000, Galen acquired the Warner Chilcott, a US pharmaceutical company, which is focused on women’s healthcare, and simultaneously listed its ADRs on NASDAQ.


AKAM

Akamai Technologies, which trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol "AKAM"

Alpha Indexes

The Nasdaq OMX Alpha IndexesTM were developed by Jacob S. Sagi and Robert E. Whaley, both professors at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University.

Amed

AMED (NASDAQ), the market abbreviation for Amedisys, a publicly traded home health and hospice care company in the United States

American Management Systems

American Management Systems (previous NASDAQ symbol: AMSY) was a high technology and management consulting firm, founded in 1970 by a group of five former Defense Department officials who had worked under Robert McNamara in the Kennedy and Johnson administration.

BBBB

Blackboard Inc., NASDAQ symbol BBBB, a Washington, D.C. software company

BluePhoenix Solutions

Soon afterwards Formula Systems acquired control of the company, while the founder retained some of his shares and continued to serve as the company's CEO until 1996, when its name was changed to Crystal Systems Solutions and it went public on Nasdaq under the leadership of Dan Goldstein and his brother Gad.

Borse Dubai

In September 2007, Borse Dubai secured 28% of the London Stock Exchange as part of a wider deal with the US-based Nasdaq designed to settle their long-running battle for control of the Stockholm-based exchanges and telecommunications operator OMX.

Bullpoo

The current BullPoo services investors and virtual trading of equities listed in the United States, including the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ and the American Stock Exchange.

Chad Steelberg

AdForce (formerly ADFC on NASDAQ), founded by the Steelbergs in 1995 and grown into the world’s largest centralized independent ad serving and management solution, was acquired by CMGI after going public for more than $500 million in 1999.

Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code

If the company's stock is publicly traded, a Chapter 11 filing generally causes it to be delisted from its primary stock exchange if listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or the NASDAQ.

China Concepts Stock

Currently, there are China Concepts Stock listed in several major stock exchange around the globe, which includes: SEHK, SGX, NYSENASDAQAMEXLSEEuronextTSE.

CommVault Systems

(NASDAQ: CVLT), founded in 1996, is a publicly traded data management and information management software company headquartered in Oceanport, New Jersey.

Contract for difference

Trading index CFDs, such as the ones based on the major global indexes e.g. Dow Jones, NASDAQ, S&P 500, FTSE, DAX, and CAC, quickly became the most popular type of CFD that were traded.

David L. Cremin

While at Zone Ventures, he helped lead an investment in DivX, a video compression technology and distribution company, which completed a successful IPO (Nasdaq:DIVX, subsequently purchased by Sonic Solutions Nasdaq: SNIC, which was purchased by Rovi Nasdaq: ROVI).

Farrel Corporation

In 1992, Charles S. Jones led Farrel’s IPO on NASDAQ, underwritten by Paine Webber and First Albany for a pre-money valuation of $52.1 million, giving the original investors a 52.1x return in less than six years, with an IRR of 92.1%.

FLSmidth

FLSmidth is listed on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen (the former Copenhagen Stock Exchange) in the C20 index and has offices in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Fushi

Fushi Copperweld (傅氏科普威), a Sino-American NASDAQ-traded company based in Beijing

InFocus

Formerly a NASDAQ listed public company, InFocus was purchased by Image Holdings Corp., owned by John Hui, in 2009 and is now a wholly owned subsidiary.

Joseph Grundfest

Professor Grundfest is also a co-founder and director of Financial Engines, Inc., chairman of the board nominating committee of the NASDAQ Stock Market, and was formerly a director of Oracle Corporation

Manisha Tank

Tank was first posted to New York in 1999 and reported from the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange while working for Reuters Television.

Medscape

Founded in New York's Silicon Alley in May 1995 by SCP Communications, Inc. under the direction of Peter Frishauf, Medscape, Inc. had an IPO in September 1999, trading on NASDAQ under the symbol MSCP (an acknowledgment of its founding company, SCP and of Netscape, whose symbol was NSCP).

Motricity

As of April 10, 2013, shares of Voltari Common Stock will commence trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol "VLTC," Motricity became a wholly owned subsidiary of Voltari.

OTC Bulletin Board

As such, most companies choose to list on more established exchanges such as the AMEX, NYSE, or NASDAQ once eligible.

Patrick J. Balthrop, Sr.

is President and Chief Executive Officer of Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX), a biotechnology company based in Austin, Texas, with offices in Toronto, Australia and the Netherlands.

Quepasa

During the .com bust of 2001, Quepasa shares lost practically all of their value on Nasdaq.

Russian Industrial Leaders Index

Its constituents include Russian companies whose stocks or Global Depository Receipts are listed on global exchanges: New York Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, Nasdaq or AMEX.

SBSA

Spanish Broadcasting System, a radio station operator in the U.S. (NASDAQ: SBSA)

ShareScope

ShareScope Pro has live tick-by-tick intraday data for the London Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX, FOREX, selected commodities such as Gold and Light Sweet Crude and major indices such as the FTSE 100, DAX, CAC 40, DJI/DOW 30, S&P 500, Hang Seng and the Nikkei.

ShareScope Plus includes delayed intraday data for the London Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, selected commodities such as Gold and Light Sweet Crude and major indices such as the FTSE 100, DAX, CAC 40, DJI/DOW 30, S&P 500, Hang Seng and the Nikkei.

Steven C. Wade

Steven C. Wade (born 1983) is a Massively Multi-player Online Game/MMORPG veteran who has created and introduced several online computer games to the western markets, including: A Tale in the Desert Series from eGenesis, Last Chaos from Aeria Games, and most recently, Dragon Oath from the NASDAQ listed Changyou.com Ltd.

Susquehanna International Group

SIG is a specialist or DPM (designated primary market maker) in approximately 600 equity options and 45 index options on the CBOE, AMEX, PHLX, and ISE, including big name equities such as Google, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, GE, PepsiCo, and Microsoft and indices such as Nasdaq and Russell 2000 options.

Theodor Dalenson

As chairman of Carl Lamm AB (Nasdaq OMX), the largest document management company in the Nordic region, he led the restructuring and consequent sale of Carl Lamm to Ricoh Ltd. which is one of the world's leading producers of printers, copiers and other hardware products.

University Health Network

Parking is provided through a private company Standard Parking Corporation (NASDAQ: STAN) that provides parking facility management for more than one million parking spaces in hundreds of cities across the United States and Canada.

WSTF

Westaff - a staffing company based primarily out of Walnut Creek, California, United States and traded publicly on the NASDAQ market, using the stock symbol WSTF

YRC

YRC Worldwide (NASDAQ: YRCW), the combination of Yellow Freight and Roadway Transportation, a Fortune 500 company based in Overland Park, Kansas