Benchmarks settled in the green on Friday after promising economic numbers negated overseas tensions. Encouraging economic data on consumer sentiment and Chicago-area business conditions overshadowed concerns related to the Russia-Ukraine crisis and increased terror-threat level in the United Kingdom. Friday’s gains helped the S&P 500 close at a record high. The index finished above the 2k mark for the third […]
Total revenue growth remained strong, at 51.9% year over year to $101.5 million, 9.7% ahead of our forecast. Splunk doubled the license capacity for entry-level customers and lowered the price of Splunk Cloud by 33% during the quarter, helping to drive sales growth and keep the company apace with new competitors. We view these pricing moves as responses to customer […]
Benchmarks ended a listless trading session nearly flat following mixed earnings reports. Investors were reluctant to bet big bucks on a day devoid of any major economic data or news. The S&P 500 was able to end above the 2K mark, but the index witnessed its lowest intra-day trading range, swinging by only 4.54 points.For a look at the issues […]
If the thought of investing in the stock market scares you, you aren’t alone. False promises and highly public stories of investors striking it rich or losing everything skew perceptions of the reality of the average investor. By understanding a little more about the stock market, and how the stock market works, you’ll likely find it isn’t as scary as […]
United Utilities Group PLC (ADR) (OTCMKTS:UUGRY) provides water and wastewater services in the United Kingdom. The company collects water from catchment land. It also offers various value added services comprising waste to energy consultancy; engineering advisory services on design, build, and operation of on-site treatment plants; and rainwater harvesting and greywater recycling services. In addition, the company is involved in […]
Branding data is tough—and not just because many eyes glaze over when you start to talk about it. But in today’s media marketplace, it wouldn’t be wrong to think of the data world as a spreadsheety version of a gold rush, with everybody scurrying to stake their claim.“At the early stages of anything, most people who are in that thing […]
At the center of the data visualization market is Tableau Software, Inc., a company eager to simplify data consumption for the purpose of making it more accessible to everyday users. As Tableau gears up for its annual conference we look back at its notable developments in the past year, as well as expectations for the upcoming event. One big question […]
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 […]
One of the easiest and simplest metrics that investors use to screen for, as well as value, stocks is the price-to-earnings ratio, better known as a stock’s price-to-earnings (P/E). Of course, on its face, a P/E is nothing more than a snapshot in time, but what if I told you it was far more complicated than that?There are several P/Es […]
How Zynga uses Big Data to ensure new game success | #HPBigData2014 Rose Meadows | August 22ndREAD MOREIn gaming, analysis is critical and needs to take place in real-time. You would think the pressure of real-time analytics would cause stress for something as complex as video gaming, but that’s not the case with Zynga. At Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s Vertica Big Data […]
