Almost half of the firms surveyed in the Asia-Pacific region believe that big data can improve revenue by 25 per cent or more, with HDS projecting a potential US$250-billion (Bt8 trillion) revenue increase among the more than 500 companies surveyed. However, more than half of firms have made little or no progress in their big-data strategies. Wikipedia defines “big data” […]
As stocks keep hitting new milestones, more and more pundits worry we’re in another stock market bubble. They cite record margin debt, euphoria over initial public offerings like that of Twitter (TWTR), and, of course, the big run we’ve already seen in the major indices.And they mention the growing involvement of Main Street investors in the stock market just as […]
RFID. While its roots are generally traced back to World War II, radio frequency identification technology did not find a supply chain toehold until the 1970s when the first patents were issued. That was the same time frame in which the U.S. government’s Department of Energy asked the Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop a system for tracking nuclear materials. […]
DataSift has built a reputation as a provider of Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr firehoses — streams of unstructured data from those and dozens of other social sources, which can then be used in applications to track larger user sentiment and other trends. Today, DataSift is ramping up its presence in the big data game with the launch of Vedo, a […]
Barclays has unveiled its 140 top picks for equity investors in 2014, with 58 coming from the Americas but only six of them are listed on the TSX.Goldcorp Inc., Suncor Energy Inc., Enerplus Corp., Manulife Financial Corp., Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. and Quebecor Inc. made the cut as Canadian favourites among the investment bank’s analysts.Goldcorp, which was listed along with […]
Reputation management is – and always has been – essential in growing your business and customer list. While it’s impossible to keep 100% of customers happy, it’s vitally important to know what is being said about your brand online, and to be able to follow-up with those dissatisfied folks to (hopefully) resolve their issues.Social search tools give you the ability […]
Originally published December 10, 2013 at 7:17 AM | Page modified December 11, 2013 at 6:27 AM
NEW YORK — Stocks fell modestly Tuesday as investors took a breather from a market that notched yet another record high the day before.The market has hit several all-time highs in recent months, but with the holiday season and end of the […]
By Mitchell Clark, B.Comm. for Profit ConfidentialThere is going to be considerable pressure on interest rates and the Federal Reserve very soon, and it’s very likely that we’re going to get some choppy trading action in stocks. The reason for this is, of course, positive economic news, which is increasing the likelihood of a decrease in monetary stimulus. As contradictory as it […]
Stock Market News for December 9, 2013
by Zacks Equity Research
Published on December 09, 2013 […]
Here’s a simple rule for the second machine age we’re in now: as the amount of data goes up, the importance of human judgment should go down.The previous statement reads like heresy, doesn’t it? Management education today is largely about educating for judgment—developing future leaders’ pattern-matching abilities, usually via exposure to a lot of case studies and other examples, so […]
