Empire Avenue does not support the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills currently before the US House and Senate. Although Empire Avenue is a Canadian company, we believe strongly that we do need to speak up about our thoughts on SOPA and PIPA and why we at Empire Avenue are [...]
Read more →And, here’s some of the news that many of you have been waiting for. Next week we will release changes to our upgrades, bank and the concept of Wealth on Empire Avenue. Going Beyond 5,000 investments, sponsored by Privé! Currently our top users have been limited by a portfolio size of 5,000. Next week, we [...]
Read more →Welcome to the “State of the Avenue” for January 2012. First of all, happy new year to everyone, both on Empire Avenue and those that are not. I hope it has been a peaceful holiday season for you and your loved ones. 2012 is set to be a year of much fun here on the [...]
Read more →This has been a fantastic month for Empire Avenue as our community managed to get us nominated for the 2011 Mashable Awards. As you might know by now, we didn’t quite make it to the top, but we did monitor the Twitter and Facebook streams and we felt we came close and that is because [...]
Read more →Over the next few weeks, you will see some major changes coming to Empire Avenue. Some will be new, or the expansion of features that we are currently beta testing (like Missions); and in other cases we are going to remove features of the site that are not seeing as much use as we initially [...]
Read more →I’m very pleased to let our members and our partners know that we are expanding the Empire Avenue team. Just a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Brad Grier joining our team full time to take on the role of Director of Social Media and Community Management. Well now I’m pleased to introduce two [...]
Read more →Introducing Brad Grier! The most fun part of Empire Avenue has been working with some of the greatest minds and the funnest (yes I know it’s not a word, but it’s my blog post and I can create new words if I want to :p) people. And as we expand our team, we’re not about [...]
Read more →Lately CNN.com wrote about Empire Avenue with the title “Play the nonscary Social Stock Market“. We thought about it here at Empire Avenue HQ and wondered about relative performance of Empire Avenue and thought we’d have a bit of fun! So how has Empire Avenue as a market performed at the same time as the [...]
Read more →Last week we wrote that some of our upcoming changes to Empire Avenue would deal with Market Makers, Dividends and Earnings. We’d like to delve into this topic and give those interested some insights on changes over the next few weeks. Intro to Market Makers For those new to Empire Avenue, the Market Makers are [...]
Read more →It’s been a while since we’ve done a “State of Empire Avenue” blogs. Well, you’re going to have to wait for a full one, we’re so incredibly busy on so many multiple fronts that a comprehensive update would take a few pages. Community As promised in our previous update on Communities, we’ve released many changes. [...]
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