Smartphone app visualises two similar running routes
I am obsessed with my running app. Last week obsession became frustration verging on throw-the-phone-on-the-floor anger. Wednesday’s lunchtime 5km run was pretty good, almost back up […]
Cameco Corp., Finning International Inc. and Primero Mining Corp. made the cut among seven Canadian names on Cantor Fitzgerald’s 36 best global ideas for 2014.Also included were AG Growth International Inc., Catamaran Corp., Descartes Systems Group Inc. and Halogen Software Inc..Some of the other companies on the investment bank’s list include U.S.-listed Facebook Inc., Expedia Inc. and Digital Realty Trust, […]
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The World of Big Data, Part 1
Tech Talker: Quick and Dirty Tips to Navigate the Digital World
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You may have heard the term […]
IBM buys Aspera to speed up movement of big dataAspera can move big data to and from the cloud faster than traditional methods whilst providing predictability, bandwidth control and security. This benefits companies such as media organizations uploading TV shows and movies for streaming, medical research companies sharing genome data, or any organization trying to share and synchronize […]
It’s tough to be a marketer in today’s always-changing online environment. It seems that every time we master one new channel, a new and more “promising” channel emerges.We witnessed a prime example of this with the May 2012 introduction of product listing ads (PLAs). In the face of quickly moving, high-cost changes, marketers were left facing the difficult calculus of […]
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 […]
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 […]
No doubt you heard about how the Obama campaign ran circles around Romney in the digital sphere last year. There was another less-sexy, sub-category of the digital advantage, which was that the Obama campaign used data-crunching to get a lot more ads per dollar than the Romney campaign. This was all really cool if you were an Obama […]
Stock Market Dementia
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Nov 26, 2013 – 05:32 AM GMTBy: Brian_Bloom
The patterns below are counter intuitive. Falling volume, falling momentum and rising prices.Note how On Balance Volume has failed to reach a new highApplying common sense: The only logical justification for the above is that even though volumes of […]
Big data isn’t just a buzz word — it’s a proven way to improve the bottom line.Good marketing analytics can make all the difference for effective campaigns and company growth, according to data from McKinsey on Marketing and Sales, a branch of global management and consulting firm McKinsey. Using these metrics well can increase a company’s return on investment (ROI) […]
