The hotly anticipated stock-market debut of Twitter exceeded expectations on Thursday when a stampede for shares sent the company’s value to more than $24bn – an extraordinary debut for a company that has never made a profit, and whose launch had already been the subject of considerable hype.The company set a share price of $26 on Tuesday but fierce bidding […]
Electronic trading is easy. Log in to your account. Select the security you wish to buy or sell. Click the mouse or tap your phone, and the transaction takes place. From an investor’s perspective, it’s simple and easy. But behind the scenes, it is a complex process backed by an impressive array of technology. What was once associated with shouting […]
For all its vaunted importance to large companies, working with big data is kind of hard. Everybody sort of gets the point: Mine huge troves of data gathered over time through the course of normal business operations, and eventually you get to recognize patterns that turn into new insights that, in turn, can lead to changes that either make or […]
Bloomberg TVKatie Jacobs Stanton, Twitter’s head of international.Twitter’s IPO is ready to price, and, predictably, many pundits are going on about how stupid investors are to buy the stock.
Twitter is losing money, these pundits observe.It’s a social network, like the disastrous Facebook.Twitter hasn’t proven anything yet.Twitter investors are so deluded and ridiculous, these pundits roar, that they’ve already agreed to […]
Twitter Inc.’s initial public offering may be a great opportunity for investors, but there’s significant risk of a disappointing payoff in the early days and weeks following the social media giant’s debut, says Colin Cieszynski, a market analyst at CMC Markets Canada.“Analysis of previous technology and social media IPOs with high public profiles over the last ten years shows that, […]
Big data is everywhere, being generated by people using transactional tools, social media and collaboration tools, as well as pouring in from applications, log files and machines. Recognizing its potential to analyze and predict trends, enterprises want at this data. The problem is, there just aren’t enough skilled professionals adept at transforming this data into business insights — and we’re […]
L&L Energy Inc. (LLEN), a US-based coal producer, has seen phenomenal growth despite the challenging environment for American coal producers in the past two years. Year-to-date, LLEN shares have gained more than 41%, while hordes of American coal producers got hammered. But this is not the end of the LLEN play – this stock has a lot more firepower left […]
Print PDF“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”, the famous quote by Henry Ford. Nowadays, Ford uses big data to find out what their customers want and to develop better cars faster. Developing a product that requires 20.000 – 25.000 different parts to develop, big data seems to be the only way forward […]
Editors’ Note: This article covers a micro-cap stock. Please be aware of the risks associated with these stocks.SunGame Corporation (OTCQB:SGMZ) is the most expensive penny stock I have ever seen. In fact, it is safe to say that this one stock completely disproves the “efficient market hypothesis,” which is so loved by academics. Not only is this stock grossly overvalued, […]
Our API directory now includes 96 stocks APIs. The newest is the Eurex VALUES API. The most popular, in terms of directory page views, is the Bloomberg API. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of stocks APIs.
In terms of the technical details, REST and XML lead the way. There are 55 stocks REST […]
