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iPad Dominates Tablet Usage Among ShareBuilder Users
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 11:12am | 417Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad is the tablet of choice among ShareBuilder users. Traditional devices (laptops and desktop PCs) still reign supreme, but roughly 25 percent of ShareBuilder's daily activity comes from a mobile device. While this is a good sign for mobile device makers, Dan Greenshields...
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ShareBuilder Experiences 'Phenomenal' Growth With Mini Options
Monday, October 7, 2013 - 2:17pm | 381Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) are three of the hottest investments right now. They are also three of the most expensive. With Google trading above $865, Apple above $490 and Amazon above $310, these companies may be too costly for the small retail investor...
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Capital One ShareBuilder Drops its Price to $6.95, Pressuring the Competition
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 5:56pm | 387Capital One ShareBuilder (NYSE: COF) has announced that it is reducing the price of all real-time trades. On Friday, March 1, the company will replace its existing price structure (both the $9.95 standard commission rate and the $7.95 Advantage Program commission price available to those with a $...
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What Would You Do for $15 an Hour?
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 2:11pm | 403More than 30 years ago, Capital One ShareBuilder President Dan Greenshields had not yet started his career in the financial services industry. He was young, hardworking and interested in buying stocks. He also needed a job to pay for his investments. "At the airlines, at Minneapolis...
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What ShareBuilder Gained from Capital One
Friday, August 31, 2012 - 3:02pm | 368On February 17, 2012, Capital One (NYSE: COF) officially welcomed ShareBuilder into its family. The acquisition, which was announced in June 2011, came after ING Group, ShareBuilder's parent company, agreed to sell ING DIRECT USA as part of a restructuring agreement with the European Union. Since...
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ShareBuilder Aims to "Empower the Investor"
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 2:36pm | 362Last week, ShareBuilder unveiled the company's Bond Funds Center, a fresh online venue with new tools, education, and third-party resources designed to help self-directed investors diversify in fixed income. "Like all features that we try to put forward, we don't do it just because we think they'...