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Robinhood Launches Zero-Fee Stock Trading App | TechCrunch

Why pay E*Trade $8 to buy or sell a stock when you can trade for free on Robinhood? After two years of development, $16 million in funding, and 500,000 waitlist signups, Robinhood finally hits the iOS App Store today. Robinhood lets you track the performance of stocks, and buy or sell them with just a few taps at no cost.The […]

Robinhood's stock trading app for millennials & with zero trading …

Trading stocks on your iPhone without spending a fortune is finally here.And by that, we mean that Robinhood’s long-awaited app is finally available after about six months of beta testing, one-and-a-half years after the company was founded.Robinhood’s founders, Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, two young men with backgrounds in finance, set out to build a mobile-only solutions for stock trading. […]

Microsoft Social Listening to accelerate sentiment analysis, reaching …

by Jason Gumpert, Editorpublished November 9, 2014Microsoft Social Listening has grown to more than a thousand customers so far, and the product will be making a leap in its sentiment analysis coverage in 2015. The product will expand from six languages (with Italian to be added in the next month or so) up to nineteen as the product shifts to […]

Robinhood Raises $13M To Democratize Stock Market With Zero …

Half a million people have already signed up for Robinhood‘s unlaunched zero-fee stock trading service. Now the startup has raised $13 million to hire talent to make its app totally secure so it can start adding people from its private beta waitlist.Unlike competitors E*Trade and Scottrade that charge people $7 to $10 per trade, Robinhood doesn’t need to spend money […]

EQLIM Startup Aims To Surface Geopolitical Big Data In The Middle …

The EQLIM startup, which means ‘region’ or ‘territory’ in Arabic, has launched, aiming to create a subscription service for real-time data about human activity in emerging economies. The Beirut, Lebanon-based startup wants to address the lack of data about the Middle East.It will look at big data covering geopolitics, infrastructure, and commerce, as well as data cross health, environment, agriculture, […]

Integrity Research» Blog Archive » iSentium Launches Sentiment …

Last week, social media analytics vendor, iSentium, announced the launch of its completely revamped iSENSE application on the Bloomberg terminal to enable investment professionals to access real-time market sentiment from Twitter.New iSense ReleaseIn October 2013, Bloomberg initially released the iSense application on its market data terminal developed by the social media analytics company, iSentium. The iSense app generated sentiment signals […]

Adatao Emerges With $13M In Funding And Visions Of Changing …

Big data has emerged as a big trend over the last several years, but as an area it has remained ill-defined and focused for the most part on data scientists, while ignoring business users. Adatao wants to change that by offering a solution that has something for both parties and a collaboration environment that lets them work together in one tool -and […]

Bitcoin Technical Analysis 4th July | Forex Minute – Financial News …

Bitcoin Technical Analysis 4th JulyBy Forexminute – Yes Option | Bitcoin | Jul 4, 2014 6:48AM BSTAs can be seen from the BTC/USD hourly chart above, the price of Bitcoin continues to be in entrapped a narrow trading range of 20 points. The trading range, which has its ends at 638 and 658, has already given 4 significant price reversals […]

Mobile-First Predictive Sales Tool Clari Raises $20M More To …

It was just in April that Clari — a mobile-first sales tool that uses data science and predictive analytics to help sales people do their jobs — emerged from stealth with $6 million in backing from Sequoia. Today the company is announcing another funding milestone: a Series B round of $20 million.Andy Byrne, the company’s founder and CEO, says Clari plans to […]

Facebook open-sources Haxl: Big Data Haskell library | SiliconANGLE

Yesterday, Facebook announced the open-sourcing of Haxl, a Haskell library used to greatly simplify access to remote data, such as databases and API web-based services. This release continues a trend of Facebook’s strong bent towards data science and the processing of complex datasets, and at the same time sustains a commitment to the open source community.The Haxl project (the combination […]