HedgeChatter: Twitter IPO and the Increasing Role of Social Media in the Stock Market
Ronald Barba
Sep 17, 2013
In April, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 150 points after a specious tweet made by The Associated Press claimed that an explosion at the White House caused injuries to President Obama. The tweet was quickly marked as fake, and the Dow stabilized after three minutes, but […]
Print PDFNestlé is a very big company, with 486 factories in 86 countries and employing over 330.000 employees worldwide. The have a global portfolio of more than 2.000 global and local brands and they are the leading company in nutrition, health and wellness products. In 2012 they had total revenue of 75 billion euro (98 billion dollar), serving millions of […]
Brands’ Social Mentions Gradually Turning Positive in the USJuly 29, 2013 by MarketingCharts staffBrand conversations are on the rise on Twitter, and Twitter users who mention brands have an increasingly amplified voice. While the social space no doubt heightens the opportunity for good PR, bad news can also spread like wildfire. (Recent research suggests that bad customer service interactions are […]
In 2012, Facebook and Twitter boasted a combined user base of more than 1.5 billion users. With over 25 billion Tweets and 30 billion shared statuses a month on Facebook, social media has transformed how people share information. There is no area of society more affected by the rise of social media than large enterprises. Traditional advertising and public relations […]
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 […]
The Heineken Social Tracker will listen to Twitter and use this data to drive large-scale visual animations projected onto a purpose built set in Dublin city centre on Heineken Cup final weekendLast weekend was Heineken Cup semi-final weekend and the tournament’s title sponsor created a ‘social tracker’ to measure the mood of rugby fans across Twitter.The infographic (below) shows the […]
The lights went out in New Orleans last night just after the halftime show of the Super Bowl, the outage caused a 35 minute delay in the biggest game of the year. While the 49ers and Ravens did their best to stay limber during the stoppage, social media users and several brands had some fun with the situation.
The Super […]
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Michael Carney
Michael Carney has spent his career exploring the world of early stage technology as an investor and entrepreneur and has participated in building companies in multiple countries within North and South America and Asia. Ultimately, he is an enthusiast of all things shiny and electronic and is inspired […]
Social Media: The Unmined FrontierIBM estimates that 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data are created every day. To put this into perspective, social media alone generates more information in a short period of time than existed in the entire world just several generations ago. Popular sites like Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare, Twitter, and Pinterest create massive quantities of data that—if translated […]
Big Data is the latest buzzword, and as such everybody is using it to their convenience. This has inevitably created some confusion. In this blog post we will try to clear it up.Big data is about two things: large sets of typically unstructured data and some relatively new techniques to deal with this kind of data. To get a good […]
