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Time to ring the register on this hot biotech play – CNBC.com

NPS CEO: Shire has rare-disease experience
NPS Pharmaceuticals president and CEO Dr. Francois Nader discusses opportunities the potential deal with Shire presents.
Anyone who follows Jim Cramer’s stock picks knows that he loves the biotech sector. Especially NPS Pharmaceuticals, up 45 percent in the past month. Wowzer!On Sunday, Ireland-based Shire PLC agreed to acquire NPS Pharma for an all cash deal of […]

Big Data Benchmarks: Toward Real-Life Use Cases | Cloudera …

The Transaction Processing Council (TPC), working with Cloudera, recently announced the new TPCx-HS benchmark, a good first step toward providing a Big Data benchmark.In this interview by Roberto Zicari with Francois Raab, the original author of the TPC-C Benchmark, and Yanpei Chen, a Performance Engineer at Cloudera, the interviewees share their thoughts on the next step for benchmarks that reflect real-world use cases.This […]