The Canadian telecommunications industry has been relatively quiet of late as the federal government is either still conducting an auction of cellular airwaves or preparing to reveal the results.Opening telecom market to foreign investment could make Canada a ‘branch plant,’ Edward Rogers warns“The model we have right now, I believe, allows Canadians to have the best wireless industry, the best […]
“Big data is a coming wave of ‘green gold,’” says Nick Eisenberger of Pure Energy Partners.”Information technology will be the most powerful tool to address resource challenges in our lifetime.”Eisenberger was speaking at the Markle Foundation offices in New York, where Agrion, which bills itself as the global network for energy, cleantech and corporate sustainability, convened an impressive roundtable to […]
NEW YORK Good news was finally good news for the stock market on Friday.Stocks rose sharply after the government reported a fourth straight month of solid U.S. job gains, the latest encouraging sign for the economy.The strengthening job market focused investors on the nation’s improving economy instead of concerns about the Federal Reserve’s […]
Originally published December 6, 2013 at 7:33 AM | Page modified December 7, 2013 at 2:25 AM
NEW YORK — Good news was finally good news for the stock market on Friday.Stocks rose sharply after the government reported a fourth straight month of solid U.S. job gains, the latest encouraging sign for the economy.The strengthening job market […]
WASHINGTON — The question about the stock market is whether the bull is a bubble. The 1990s’ “tech bubble” and the recent “housing bubble” have conditioned us to think that almost any sign of investor craziness is going to end badly — and the stock market seems a bit crazy. At the end of November, reports Wilshire Associates, stocks were […]
Everyone is talking about big data these days. From self-monitoring and stock markets to social networks and surveillance scandals – data is everywhere. No wonder that it’s taking on new expression in contemporary art.
Jonathan Harris’ 2006 WeFeelFine.org project was perhaps the first big data art experiment to leave a serious dent in the increasingly digitalized public arena. By feeding […]
EmailStocks have been on a tear, major indexes hit record highs on Monday and some analysts expect the bull market to continue into 2014.At the end of the day Monday, the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index closed at 1,791.53, up 2.7 percent from one month prior and up 7.44 percent over the past 6 months. During trading on Monday, the […]
