E-Trade Hopes to Lure Clients With First Broker Chat Room
Internet brokerage E-Trade Group, looking for new ways to draw investors to its World Wide Web site, will be the first broker to start an investor chat room.The Palo Alto-based discount brokerage will open the chat room today for use by friends and family members of the firm's employees, said Henry W. Carter, an E-Trade vice president.E-Trade will fine-tune the forum and open it to the firm's 400,000 customers and other investors this summer, Carter said in an...
Police: Man used chat room to plot mass suicide
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A man used an Internet chat room to try to set up a mass suicide on Valentine's Day involving more than two dozen women across the United States and Canada, authorities said. Gerald Krein, 26, was arrested Wednesday at his mother's mobile home in Klamath Falls and faces charges of solicitation to commit murder, sheriff's deputies said. Investigators are subpoenaing chat room records to try to contact people who may have planned to take...
PSYCHIC FROM AGOURA CHANNELS ENERGY IN INTERNET CHAT ROOM
These days Jeannette DeLangis calls herself a psychic channeler, a sort of a metaphysical counselor who offers free readings on her own Web site and in an Internet chat room.From 5-7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, using her computer names Host and Jedi, the Agoura resident answers questions and gives readings in her own chat room on America Online's Astronet. ``All I have is the first name and their age, and I ask if they have something on their mind,''...