Ryan (direwolf05)

Race #111

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Official speed 75.51 wpm (130.63 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start August 12, 2020 6:32:20pm UTC
Race Finish August 12, 2020 6:34:30pm UTC
Outcome No win (4 of 4)
Opponents 1. ethan17458 (95.71 wpm)
2. cmrrockstar85 (82.27 wpm)
Accuracy 96.0%
Points 171.16
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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.