In fairness, Nasdaq did try to bring order to the freewheeling Bulletin Board--and has taken a pratfall, recently scrapping the plan for the so-called Bulletin Board exchange.
It's driven some to search Google through a Bulletin Board System-like interface or, in the case of programmer Peter Nitsch, it's compelled him to graft ASCII art onto the physical world.
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The American Stock Exchange and the o-t-c bulletin board are willing to list these latter-day stock vendors.
PGP, an acronym for Pretty Good Privacy, was originally created as a free tool by Philip Zimmermann in the early nineties to allow for private email correspondences and bulletin-board service postings.
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The first newsgroups and discussion groups appeared in the early years of the Internet, around 1980, and the bulletin board system allowed topic-related discussion groups from 1990 on.
Shannan White met her ex-husband on a computer bulletin board in the 1990s when she still used a dial-up modem.
Now the company is back from bankruptcy, trading on the o-t-c bulletin board and narrowing its losses.
Lichtman's most recent expos is of an o-t-c Bulletin Board company called DNA Medical Technologies, of Hiawatha, Iowa.
Example: the agreement with Lighting Science Group, a Dallas firm whose shares trade on the o-t-c bulletin board.
FORBES: As a businessman, he's been mixing with a sketchier crowd.
So far 700 outfits on the o-t-c bulletin board and Pink Sheets have been linked to the Vancouver area.
Example: the agreement with Lighting Science Group, a Dallas, Texas firm whose shares trade on the o-t-c bulletin board.
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Shapiro is still a director at 360 and says he hopes to make investors in the o-t-c bulletin board stock whole.
Frustrated with the faulty answering machine in his new Compaq Presario, Dale Johnson clicked into an on-line bulletin board last July.
In 2002 the company had done a reverse merger with ProHealth Medical, an o-t-c bulletin board stock, that resulted in Langley's RHL Management getting 5.5 million shares.
Hordes of penny-stock hustlers have headed south to the American Stock Exchange, the o-t-c bulletin board and the Pink Sheets since the Vancouver Stock Exchange disappeared in 1999.
And yet you can find him all over a recent prospectus filed with the SEC for Hydrogen Power, a Seattle company with a volatile stock on the o-t-c bulletin board.
Basically they merged with Desi TV, a publicly traded company (that couldn't dig up even a little info on), swapped the ticker symbol to XRMB, and started trading on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board securities market.
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The suspects were linked to a private, members-only online bulletin board called Dreamboard, used to exchange images of child sexual abuse.
The goal is to find a digital homeroom that works more like Facebook than an old-fashioned virtual bulletin board, with space for comments, likes, shares, and the kinds of social interactions my students will already be accustomed to (If you have suggestions, leave them in the comments).
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He caught sight of a large corkboard tacked over with hand-printed messages, a community bulletin board.
Not to worry: It now trades on the Nasdaq bulletin board, thanks to an old tactic of penny-stock operators--the reverse merger.
On the bulletin board are signs announcing movie showings, free baby-sitting, arts and crafts time and even an emergency dental clinic.
The hope was that the Bulletin Board would improve transparency and prevent rampant fraud among over-the-counter equities then trading only in the Pink Sheets.
Last month they ordered a nationalist website founded during the upsurge of 2008 (m4.cn, formerly Anti-CNN.com) to close its bulletin board.
This will provide information, advice and materials for primary care workers - including latest information on interventions designed to help problem drinkers, details of help-giving agencies and access to a special bulletin board on the Alcohol Concern website, where people can post their questions and concerns.
Over the past few years many of the small-cap trading desks that made markets in Bulletin Board issues have been shut down or drastically reduced in size, including those run by Goldman Sachs (which bought Spear Leeds, the NYSE market specialist firm, in late 2000), Sherwood Securities and Fleet Securities.
"A company can qualify for the Bulletin Board if it has no assets, no revenues and no business--provided it files regular reports, " says Bernstein.
Stocks in the Over-The-Counter market are quoted on systems like the OTC Bulletin Board, an electronic quotation system, and the Pink Sheets, which is not registered as a stock exchange and is named for the color of paper on which its listings of price quotes for companies have historically been printed.
Park learned to program motion-graphics synchronized to dance music and ran a BBS, an electronic bulletin board system, the precursor to the Internet.
Mr. Valle's attorneys say they are mounting what is essentially a so-called fantasy defense, a strategy that for Internet-related allegations dates to 1995 in the U.S. That year a 20-year-old University of Michigan student was arrested after posting a story on an Internet bulletin board that his lawyer, Douglas Mullkoff, said "described kidnapping and sexual brutality" involving a female classmate.
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