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Bank Holiday: Greek Banks and Stock Market Shut Until July 7

After the ECB shut off ELA, prime minister Alexis Tsipras imposed capital controls while blaming the ECB just as I predicted.Of course, that was an easy prediction. Yet, even at the last moment, many did not believe it would come to this.Let’s tune into the Guardian Live Blog for some details.Bank HolidaySpeaking on live TV, Alexis Tsipras is saying that […]

Big Data should not be a faith-based initiative – Boing Boing

The debate is a hot one, and a lot of non-technical privacy regulators have been led on by sweet promises from the companies that they regulate about the possibility of creating booming markets in highly sensitive personal data that is somehow neutralized through a magic “de-identification” process that lets information about, say, the personal lives of cancer patients be bought […]

Big data, what have you done for me lately? | VentureBeat | Big Data …

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]]>In gearing up to attend this week’s DataBeat, I found myself thinking about what I want out of the conference. I’ve dreamed about being able to analyze all the data that’s relevant to my company and what that could do for me as a CMO.Imagine the insights: how customers use a product, how they consume content, and how […]

George Soros is Now Betting Big Against the U.S. Stock Market …

Soros is now betting against the U.S. stock market to the tune of 1.3 billion dollars. We are not in a recovery. What we are witnessing right now is the creation of a speculative bubble of epic proportions and that bubble is going to burst. We’ve been saying this for some time now, but when a major player like George […]