In the teeth of a not-so-perfect storm savaging the East Coast, the freer the flow of digital news, the better. The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have temporarily taken down their paywalls.
Published reports today suggest NASDAQ is working on a plan to compensate brokerages that lost perhaps $100 million when software fouled up the start of trading in Facebook's IPO last month.
After technical snafus on the NASDAQ market interfered with the launch of Facebook stock, there are reports the New York Stock Exhange reached out to Facebook to pick up their business.