In April, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 150 points after a specious tweet made by The Associated Press claimed that an explosion at the White House caused injuries to President Obama. The tweet was quickly marked as fake, and the Dow stabilized after three minutes, but within that three-minute span, the hacked tweet “erased $136 billion in equity market value”. With the increased […]
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by Ben BenoyAugust 30, 2012
In 2007 Ken Fisher wrote a book called The only three questions that count, Investing by knowing what other’s don’t. In chapter four he gives an example of how back in the 70’s he stumbled across a new way to evaluate a stock’s value by mashing together publicly available information to create a metric called “price-to-sales.”
SUCCESS FACTORS
Fisher mentions […]
ZACH DAVIS Tech.co
Last night was Tech Cocktail’s Dallas Mixer and Startup Showcase at Collide Center. As always, we held our Hottest Showcasing Startup series, including the pre-event Reader’s Choice online poll, as well as the Best Pitch award, as determined by the Live SMS poll.
DALLAS’S HOTTEST SHOWCASING STARTUP – BEST PITCH (TIE)
HedgeChatter – HedgeChatter correlates Social Media Financial Information […]
Chapel Hill, NC – A new collaboration called the National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) aims to make North Carolina a national hub for data-intensive business and data science research and education, a move that will help develop a national strategy to ensure U.S. leadership in the data-driven global economy.The consortium, launched at RENCI, the Renaissance Computing Institute at the […]
By Hanah Cho
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Tech Wildcatters has picked 11 startups to participate in its spring 2013 program, representing the largest class for the Dallas technology accelerator.
Monday was orientation for the newest crop of startups, which got to see a nice surprise: Tech Wildcatters won a $20,000 office makeover contest sponsored by workplace furniture company Turnstone.
This is the 5th class for Tech Wildcatters, which has gotten a lot […]
Social media as trend indicators
It is not uncommon that when “social media networks” are mentioned, the most common associations among people are with platforms that promote interaction with, and sharing and exchange of user-generated content. With its exponential growth, social media is now regarded as the collective weight and barometer of thoughts and ideas about every aspect of the world […]
