Encouraging economic reports through last week helped indices post a number of records on Friday. The S&P 500 closed above 1,800 for the first time and the blue-chip index recorded its longest stretch of weekly gains in three years. The tech-laden Nasdaq also joined the party, hitting a new 13-year high. The health care sector was the biggest gainer among […]
On Tuesday November 19thVSS Monitoring, a leading provider of network packet brokers (NPBs), launched their Big Data Visibility solution. The system combines network data with big data from external sources to allow analysis of that data as a single dataset. Thus making the Big Data Visibility solution the industry’s first to capture, groom and distribute network data to both network and application […]
There has been a lot of talk lately that ‘Big Data’ is just BS. Peter Houston looks beyond the hype to reveal what companies should be focusing on.Peter Houston Do you remember the first time you heard the phrase ‘Big Data’? Chances are, unless data’s what you do, it was last year. Big Data became big when the World Economic […]
Nov 1318You might be surprised what consumers say about banks and credit unions in social media. Here’s the first installment in a series of quarterly sentiment reports from the social media monitoring experts at digital agency iQ, brought to you exclusively by The Financial Brand. “Social Listening” is a practice that allows us to examine all forms of social interaction […]
But with larger increments would come larger commissions, which in turn would drive market makers toward those companies and bring greater liquidity to the market, supporters say. (Read more: ‘Obamacare Rally’? It’s as good a reason as any) “Seeing volume return to the New York Stock Exchange would be very positive,” said Peter Costa, […]
I grew up in and still live in the South. During the dog days of summer in July and August, when folks say, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity,” believe me, it’s the heat AND the humidity.Everything wilts. People move more slowly. Business slows down a little, too. There’s a real and noticeable effect.The fixed-income markets — represented by […]
Mat Ward, Lotame’s Managing Director of APAC Operations, is presenting at the Digital Media Asia event tomorrow, November 14, in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. The presentation is called “Embracing Big Data”, and it will cover the following topics:What is “Big Data”, and what does it mean for publishers? There is a lot of talk about data and its importance, but many publishers […]
Dismal corporate earnings reports and lower oil prices dragged the major indices into negative territory on Tuesday. Among the S&P 500 industry groups, the technology sector gained the most. Financials, followed by utilities stocks ended on the losing side.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s Ahead of Wall Street articleThe Dow Jones […]
The AWS Test Drives give you direct and easy access to a wide variety of enterprise solution stacks, all hosted on the AWS Cloud. These labs are available to you to run for a half-day evaluation period at no charge. Each test drive includes a guided video tour and a lab manual, so you will be up and running in […]
We’re in the midst of a Big Data Gold Rush, with VCs throwing cash at anyone and everyone with a Big Data idea. But as Cowen & Co. analyst Peter Goldmacher posits, the Big Data financial opportunity has three phases, with Big Data users, not vendors, standing to make the most money in Big Data’s third and final phase.
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