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Kathimerini reports Greek stock market will be closed for a week …

Myles Udland

Jun. 28, 2015, 4:49 PM
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REUTERS/Yannis BehrakisInside the Athens stock exchange building.It looks like Greece’s stock market is going to be closed for a week. According to a report from the English version of Greek newspaper Kathimerini, the Athens Stock Exchange is going to be closed for a week. Kathimerini reports that, “The Capital Market Commission is expected to announce in the […]

Fitbit Debuts On The Stock Market, Now Valued At Over $6 Billion

As it stands, Fitbit is the current leader in the wearables market, although it appears that Xiaomi could be catching up, but in the meantime the company has recently made their debut on the stock market in the US where they held an IPO where their stocks were offered at $20 per share, giving them a valuation of about $4.1 […]

The Big Data Problem Will Also Be A Problem For Science 2.0

George Dyson. Credit: edge.orgIf you read about Big Data for very long, a quote from science historian George Dyson is sure to come up: “Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than the cost of throwing it away.”That will be a platform to talk about the challenges, etc.But there is a bigger problem that […]

With Big Data, What Really Matters? | Jump Associates

This post was written by Claudia Glasser, Director of Business Development here at Jump. You can reach her directly by commenting on this post.90 percent of all the data in the world has been generated over the last two years. The electronic trails left by our business and personal activities, and now millions of connected machines, have given rise to […]

A new angle in sports : Winning the gold with Big Data | #BigDataSV …

As part of this year’s Strata Conf. in Santa Clara, titled “Making Data Work”, David Epstein, Senior Writer with Sports Illustrated, delivered a Keynote which aimed to explain the role of “Small Data in Sports” and how “Little Differences Mean Big Outcomes.”“I want to talk about high performance in sports and what makes the difference between a top performer and […]