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Thu Apr 6, 2023, 02:35 PM Apr 2023

Bing Newcomb, Whose E*Trade Transformed Stock Trading, Dies at 79

Bing Newcomb, the legally blind son of a janitor, co-founded E*Trade, which revolutionized the world of stock trading and made him a multimillionaire.

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Bing Newcomb, Whose E*Trade Transformed Stock Trading, Dies at 79
He wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded a company that reaped its



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