I’m going to tell you something, and it isn’t going to be anything you haven’t already heard. Mobile is getting so big it’s likely going to increase the ‘Internet’ by more than double in the next few years. I’m only 30 and I can walk into a high school and see everyone with a laptop, smartphone out, snapchatting their Instagram […]
The main theme from Intel’s (INTC) latest quarterly results is that corporate sales have not been high enough to rejuvenate Intel’s revenue in the face of lower PC sales. It seems we are still in a transitional period, whereby more and more people are using mobile devices to hook to the internet and less from a desktop PC. I do […]
Taking the creepy out of Big DataWhile most people find Big Data creepy, Paddy Nixon and Ros Harvey from the University of Tasmania argue democratising it would be a real social benefit.Big Data has a reputation for being creepy; the domain of “Big Business” and “Big Government”. At best it’s the driver of relentless advertising, uniquely targeted and eerily reminiscent of our most recent […]
Stock Market Day of Reckoning
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Dec 23, 2013 – 10:27 AM GMTBy: Fred_Sheehan
Thomson Reuters (This Week in Earnings, December 6, 2013) notes another New World Record. We are breaking plenty these days. This often foretells a Grand Finale. For the fourth quarter of 2013, 103 […]
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by Frederick Sheehan / on 22 December 2013 at 18:47 / Frederick J. Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009) and “The Coming Collapse of […]
What’s the problem with Big Data? You guessed right — it’s BIG.Big Data empowers organizations to discern patterns that were once invisible, leading to breakthrough ideas and transformed business performance. But there is simply so much of it, and from such myriad sources — customers, competitors, mobile, social, web, transactional, operational, internal, external, structured, and unstructured — that, for many […]
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Songdo City, Part 1: ‘Nudge’ Paternalism in the Big Data City[Part 1 of the 3-part series on Songdo City, South Korea]The world’s first “smart city” is nearing completion. Called an “aerotropolis” by some, Songdo will be an industry hub for international business travel. A clean-tech Startup City of sustainable urban life. A Korean ‘Big Apple’ imitating the density, structure, and […]
