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Official speed | 88.33 wpm (111.67 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | October 13, 2020 2:09:54pm UTC |
Race Finish | October 13, 2020 2:11:46pm UTC |
Outcome | No win (3 of 5) |
Opponents |
1. poem (114.72 wpm) |
Accuracy | 98.0% |
Points | 200.21 |
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. |