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NTT DATA: Using Real-Time Analysis to Build a Financial Sentiment …

Read/Download White Paper (PDF)Business Solutions for IT Managers: NTT DATA creates a high-speed, big data–based analysis of the relationship between stock prices and social media sentiments with the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 familyRelated posts:Journey to Cloud eMagazine (Volume 2, Issue 1) Business Solutions for IT Managers: Intel’s cloud computing eMagazine brings you insiders’ viewpoints on everything you need to […]

The 4 Layers of Big Data Everyone Must Know | SmartData Collective

There is still so much confusion surrounding Big Data. I thought it might help to clarify the 4 key layers of a big data system – i.e. the different stages the data itself has to pass through on its journey from raw statistic or snippet of unstructured data (for example, social media post) to actionable insight.The whole point of a […]

How Google Searches Can Predict The Next Stock Market Crash …

When will the stock market crash? As with most everything else, the answer lies within Google.In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Warwick Business School and Boston University have created a method to identify search terms that precede a stock market crash.To help algorithms identify these patterns, the research team categorized every […]

Why Pfizer Will Trade At $40 On Improved Drug Pipeline – Pfizer Inc …

SummaryWith the stock trading at a P/E of 9, these shares are still cheap.
Pfizer is trading at a P/E that is almost 30 points below Merck (MRK), 13 points below Novartis (NVS) and 15 point below Sanofi (SNY).
At around $30 per share, investors that are looking for exposure in the health care industry and values 3.5% dividend yield should not […]

You may not need big data after all | #MITIQ | SiliconANGLE

You may not need big data after all | #MITIQ Alan McStravick | July 23rdREAD MOREThe business buzzword over the past few years has been “Big Data”. Companies are trying to figure our how they can leverage their collected data and translate it into a competitive advantage. However, according to the Director of MIT’s Sloan School Center for Information Systems […]

Fortune: Female-Led Businesses Beat the Stock Market, But Their …

Ursula Burns, chairman and CEO, Xerox.According to a recent Fortune study, the number of women CEOs in the Fortune 500 is at its highest total yet at 24 (51 in the Fortune 1,000).Despite this overall low number, Fortune illustrated some interesting trends, including data that shows that women-led businesses posted better returns than the stock market and generated more than their share […]

Explanation Of 'Big Data' In 8 Words – Business Insider

Fascinated by Big Data? Join us as we explore the future of media as it intersects with technology and changes everything from how we consume information to how we market, invest, socialize, work, live, and play at IGNITION: Future Of Digital. Reserve your seat now »Business Insider/Julie BortPivotal CEO Paul Maritz
A little over a year ago, EMC and its […]

IBM pushes its big data software at Chinese universities – VentureBeat

IBM is pushing big data software to Chinese universities, by way of an agreement with China’s Ministry of Education.Under a program called IBM U-100, IBM is donate a whole mess of big data and analytics software worth $100 million and provide support for 100 Chinese universities, according to a statement IBM issued earlier this week. Among the offerings are IBM’s […]

The World Cup Has A Very Strange Impact On The Stock Market …

LikeTweet+1Football (soccer) is a religion of sorts in much of the world. Everything stops for the big games, and the World Cup is about as big as it gets.  Earlier this week, as everyone nervously prepared to watch what was sure to be an epic match-up between hometown favorite Brazil, and football juggernaut Germany – (Spoiler Alert – Germany basically […]

CYNK Technology – Business Insider

This is a chart showing trading in a company called CYNK Technology since June 17. The stock is up nearly 25,000%. That’s not a typo.Google FinanceThe company’s stock, which the folks at ZeroHedge first alerted us to, has gone from $0.10 on June 17 to $14.71 as of Wednesday’s close. At its current stock price, the company’s market cap is […]