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Daily Tidbits: Charles Schwab updates trading platform

Charles Schwab improved its online trading platform Tuesday with the introduction of new features for its site, StreetSmart.com. According to the investment firm, clients will now have real-time performance reporting for closed positions, new short-selling tools, and more order types. The app will also feature new tabs for realized gain and loss data and information on shorting securities. The updates are available now on the Schwab service.

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Report: Clearspring acquires bookmarking service AddThis

Kara Swisher at AllThingsD reported Tuesday that widget-maker Clearspring has acquired a start-up called AddThis for an undisclosed price.

Swisher referred to AddThis as "the top bookmarking and content-sharing tool on the Web," a title that comes from numbers from traffic firm Hitwise. Basically, AddThis is a company that makes little buttons that publishers can put on their blog posts, articles, or what-have-you to aggregate the ubiquitous bookmarking services into one. It pulls in the Yahoo-owned Delicious, Google, Microsoft's Live Bookmarks, Firefox, Furl, and a bunch of others.

The company already has its buttons on Web sites … Read more