ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.
Thank the U.S. National Security Agency for bringing Big Data onto the national stage. The agency’s questionable use of data mining and analysis in the name of national security raised Main Street’s awareness of Big Data like never before.
Making sense of a wellspring of unstructured […]
Building a Smarter Planet takes people who are passionate about using technology to improve the world and who are eager to innovate and take risks. During the past year, we profiled eight of these “People for a Smarter Planet,” putting the spotlight on researchers, engineers, inventors and innovators who are focused on the future.They include people like Lisa Seacat DeLuca, a […]
Originally published December 23, 2013 at 12:56 PM | Page modified December 23, 2013 at 8:56 PM
NEW YORK — 2013 was a great year for the average investor, but few market strategists believe that 2014 will be anywhere near as good. The simple strategy of buying U.S. stocks, selling bonds and staying out of international markets isn’t going to […]
Christine Lagarde, who said the IMF will raise its forecast for US growth . Photograph: FRANCOIS LENOIR/REUTERSGood morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of events across the world economy, the financial markets, the eurozone and the business world.And a rather quiet morning it is too. Especially in London where workers who haven’t clocked off for Christmas may struggle to […]
As 2013 winds down, it’s only natural for people to make personal New Year’s resolutions for 2014. It’s also a perfect time for technology industry predictions.This is the sixth installation in our multi-part “Technology Predictions for 2014″ series in which industry providers—from Big Data to cloud to mobile—share their predictions about the hot tech trends that will take center stage […]
Stock Market Forgets about the Rally into Fed Accouncement
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 18, 2013 – 06:03 PM GMTBy: Anthony_Cherniawski
It appears that the rally attempts into the Fed announcement are failing. VIX also appears to be done with its correction.TNX is also going higher. This could be a fake-out move, but the Cycles suggest […]
3M Co (NYSE:MMM) rose 0.56 percent to $132.13 in the current trading session after Jefferies Group raised its price target for the diversified technology company from $140 per share to $150 per share, in a research note sent to investors on Wednesday. MMM shares are trading in the range of $131.48 to $132.56 today. The company has a market capitalization […]
UCL and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific,
technical and medical information products and services, today announced they
will establish the UCL Big Data Institute. It
is a new collaboration to explore innovative ways to better serve needs of
researchers through the exploration of new technologies and analytics as
applied to scholarly content and data.Elsevier
believes linking analytics and scientific content is one of the key […]
Benchmarks ended in the green on Monday, as investors attempted to predict the Federal Reserve’s next move ahead of its two day policy meeting. Investor sentiment also got a boost from indications of a strong recovery in the economy led by encouraging U.S. manufacturing data and upbeat data from Europe. Two major corporate deals also captured investors’ attention for the […]
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