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Robinhood creators: 'Unlocking the microinvestor market' – CNBC.com

Free stock trading, zero overhead and the market at your fingertips? Now there is an app for all that. It’s called Robinhood and according to its creators, it’s going to tap the very small investor segment.”We are not setting any account minimums, which we think unlocks a market of investors who couldn’t do this before,” the company’s co-founder Baiju Bhatt […]

Robinhood creators: 'Unlocking the microinvestor market'

Free stock trading, zero overhead and the market at your fingertips? Now there is an app for all that. It’s called Robinhood and according to its creators, it’s going to tap the very small investor segment.”We are not setting any account minimums, which we think unlocks a market of investors who couldn’t do this before,” the company’s co-founder Baiju Bhatt […]

Adatao Emerges With $13M In Funding And Visions Of Changing …

Big data has emerged as a big trend over the last several years, but as an area it has remained ill-defined and focused for the most part on data scientists, while ignoring business users. Adatao wants to change that by offering a solution that has something for both parties and a collaboration environment that lets them work together in one tool -and […]

Databricks Snags $33M In Series B And Debuts Cloud Platform For …

Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as a company.There is little doubt that big data is a big deal these days and companies are popping up to help customers process the data. Databricks […]