CIBC World Markets analysts are bullish on Canada in 2014, following a year in which Canadian stocks lagged many of their developed world counterparts.Now find out Citigroup’s top 23 stocks in the U.S. marketWith stock market correlations down, 2014 is likely to reward the savvy investors who know how to pick stocks. Check them out“The valuation discount relative to the […]
Traditional molecular systematic studies have progressed by sequencing genes one by one, a time- and cost-intensive task that has limited the amount of data a researcher could feasibly obtain. With the continual improvement of next-generation sequencing technologies, however, obtaining large molecular data sets is becoming much easier, and much cheaper. This increase in data means, in many cases, increased accuracy […]
Encouraging holiday season sales numbers and labor data helped the Dow and S&P 500 continue their record run on Thursday. Initial claims dropped for the week ending Dec 21 and holidays sales were reported to have improved between Nov 1 and Dec 24 period. Positive holiday sales numbers lifted the retail sector into the green and was among the major […]
The holiday-shortened trading session on Tuesday saw the Dow and S&P 500 extending their record runs propelled by encouraging economic numbers. Higher orders for manufactured goods, encouraging new home sales and a report which revealed that corporates were investing at a rapid pace in their businesses acted as gifts on Christmas Eve. Volumes were among the lowest for the year […]
Oramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ORMP) made a new 52-week high of $16.38 today on traded volume of 1.02 million shares. The development-stage pharmaceutical company recently announced positive results from a clinical trial of its oral insulin capsule in type 1 diabetes patients. ORMP shares are trading in the range of $11.38 to $16.38 in the current trading session. The company has […]
The Dow and S&P 500 extended their losing streak into a fourth successive day as strong private sector labor data intensified apprehensions that the Federal Reserve would soon begin trimming its economic stimulus package. Stocks traded lower for most of the session before make up for some losses ahead of the closing bell. The prevailing mood of uncertainty meant that […]
HP Restructures Big Data Analytics with Expanded Vertica Analytics PlatformCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — HP today announced enhancements to the HP Vertica Analytics Platform, enabling organizations to accelerate business value from a vastly expanded variety of data.Version 7 of the HP Vertica Analytics Platform, also called HP Vertica Crane, dramatically simplifies the exploration and analysis of semistructured and “dark” data,(1) provides enhanced […]
Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in collaboration with the Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) program hosted Data to Knowledge to Action: Building New Partnerships. The event was a progress report of sorts on the Obama Administration’s “Big Data Research and Development Initiative” announced in 2012.OSTP Director John Holdren opened the event stressing the […]
The whole point of investing in Big Data is to drive the development of a new generation of data-driven applications. The challenge most organizations will face is that once they build those applications they will need to have a robust set of APIs through which to share the information those applications create.While it’s still early days in terms of the […]
Print PDFIt is obvious that the large internet companies like Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter have many different Big Data solutions. LinkedIn for example employs over 100 data scientists to develop among others the recommendation engine. Twitter developed several open source tools. Also the sentiment analyses or trending topics require a Big Data approach. Facebook’s newest search engine Graph Search combines […]
