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Microsoft's new CEO discusses cloud and Big Data in the enterprise …

SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier broke the news that Microsoft has chosen Satya Nadella as its third CEO last Friday, exactly ten months to the day the veteran executive appeared on theCUBE at the Accel Partners Symposium to share his vision for the modern enterprise. Nadella, who headed the software giant’s lucrative Servers and Tools division, told Wikibon Principal Research Contributor […]

UCL and Elsevier launch the UCL Big Data Institute

UCL and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific,
technical and medical information products and services, today announced they
will establish the UCL Big Data Institute. It
is a new collaboration to explore innovative ways to better serve needs of
researchers through the exploration of new technologies and analytics as
applied to scholarly content and data.Elsevier
believes linking analytics and scientific content is one of the key […]

Big Data – Are We to Repeat the Past? | Technology content from …

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. […]

Stock Market News for November 14, 2013 – Zacks Investment …

The Dow and S&P 500 finished at record highs on Wednesday boosted by strong earnings result from Macy’s that sparked optimism about a strong holiday season. Also helping the mood were comments from Janet Yellen, ahead of her confirmation as the next Fed chairman. Yellen said there is “more work to do” to boost the economy and labor market. All […]

11.11.13: Will the stock market rally continue? | Financial Post

Sign up for the Executive Summary email briefing to get the news delivered straight to your inbox first thing in the morning.Markets: By the numbersMonday’s North American closeTSX13,358.39 -19.94 -0.15%Dow Jones15,783.10 +21.32 +0.14%S&P 5001,771.89 +1.28 +0.07%Nasdaq3,919.79 +0.56 +0.01%Decent jobs growth, encouraging words from central bank officials and healthy earnings numbers were enough to push North American stock markets strongly higher yet again last week.The question […]

Peter Drucker and the Big Data Revolution | The Drucker Institute

Peter Drucker and the Big Data RevolutionRick WartzmanIn his latest column for Forbes online, Drucker Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman writes about the growing ability of businesses to harness Big Data.Although ever more data is being generated by a host of new technologies, Wartzman writes, “this surfeit of information is not simply piling up, like grain in a silo. It is being carefully sifted […]