The Vikings beat the Titans 19-3 in their 4th Preseason game, improving their Preseason record to an undefeated 4-0. Are things looking up for our Minnesota Vikings?So, hi. CCNorseman here. I’m filling in for Ted, while he’s yucking it up on vacation. Rumor has it that he’s wearing jort jorts and flippy floppies ON A BOAT! So, you’ll just have […]
The motto at Salesforce.com seems to be if you can’t beat them, buy them. This time the exact target of Salesforce.com’s $390 million desires is the scrappy startup RelateIQ, which uses searches of unstructured data from email, social networks, and calendars to automate large portions of the sales process.The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company raised a significant $40 million round earlier […]
Abstract: A persistent challenge in Complex Systems (CS) research is the phenomenological reconstruction of systems from raw data. In order to face the problem, the use of sound features to reason on the system from data processing is a key step. In the specific case of complex societal systems, sentiment analysis allows to mirror (part of) the affective dimension. However […]
Abstract: A persistent challenge in Complex Systems (CS) research is the phenomenological reconstruction of systems from raw data. In order to face the problem, the use of sound features to reason on the system from data processing is a key step. In the specific case of complex societal systems, sentiment analysis allows to mirror (part of) the affective dimension. However […]
File photo of a scientist inspecting fuel cell prototypes. Photograph: Peter Ginter/Getty Images/Science FactionIntelligent Energy, a green power company originally formed by academics from Loughborough University, unveiled plans on Friday to float on the London Stock Exchange, with an expected value of £600m.The fuel cell developer hopes to take advantage of investor interest in new listings to raise at […]
Can CIA Agent Jack Ryan Stop The Next Rogue Stock Market Algorithm?20June, 2014We have always been fans of those Harrison Ford movies adapted from the Tom Clancy novels where he plays CIA agent Jack Ryan. There is a new version of the series just out called “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”. This time Jack Ryan is a young CIA financial analyst […]
A while ago, I posted on the topic of divergences appearing in the U.S. stock market. Specifically, we were near all-time highs in the large cap averages, but a significant number of stocks were making new lows and small caps in particular were dramatically underperforming. When I examined past instances of such underperformance, I found very different results […]
Good Reason for Stock Market Doom and GloomStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 10, 2014 – 05:24 AM GMTBy: Casey_Research
By Doug French, Contributing EditorPredicting the future, like getting old, ain’t for sissies. Questioning the bull market is even more treacherous.Howard Gold, writing for MarketWatch, makes fun of seers who made what he calls “the four worst predictions […]
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HP Launches Big Data-Based IT Service Management Solutions
by Jason Verge on June 3, 2014
HP has introduced service management offerings that leverage big data generated in customer IT ecosystems. The announcement included a Software-as-a-Service service desk offering called Service Anywhere and Propel, a solution for building enterprise service catalogs, enabling IT organizations […]
As a society, we praise people who make it rich in the stock market. Every day we hear stories about money managers who “beat the market”, the stock that rose 100% in a matter of days or some myth about Warren Buffett. This get rich story is all a very enticing story and it’s even true on many occasions, but […]
