View Pit Stop page for race #622 by stvrling — Ghost race
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| Official speed | 82.44 wpm (119.65 seconds elapsed during race) |
|---|---|
| Race Start | February 20, 2019 4:02:35pm UTC |
| Race Finish | February 20, 2019 4:04:34pm UTC |
| Outcome | No win (3 of 4) |
| Opponents |
1. viviangoesmoo (114.92 wpm) 2. blade8227 (109.68 wpm) |
| Accuracy | 96.0% |
| Points | 186.87 |
| Text | #754 (Length: 822 characters) Dozens of companies, even those that had little or nothing to do with the Net, changed their names to include web-oriented designations such as dot.com, dotnet, or Internet. Three researchers from Purdue University, M. Cooper, D. Dimitrov, and P. R. Rau, studied sixty-three companies that changed their names in 1998 and 1999 to include some web orientation. Measuring the price change of the companies from five days prior to a name change (when word of the change began to leak out) to five days after the change was announced, they confirmed a remarkable effect. Companies that changed their names enjoyed an increase in price during that ten-day period that was 125 percent greater than that of their peers. This price increase occurred even when the company's core business had nothing whatsoever to do with the Net. |