Social Media Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.terrykimuraPINTEREST READY TO DECIPHER BIG DATA: Pinterest has acquired an image recognition and visual search startup called VisualGraph. With the acquisition, Pinterest reveals that it is working on big data problems […]
BIIThe world is awash in data, with mobile driving the latest surge in data volume. This is being touted as great news for every aspect of business. Big data is seen as a way to improve productivity at every level of a company, give brands exact ad targeting capability, and help make healthcare and government more efficient.But there’s a big […]
Stock Market Investor Expectations Also Need Tapering As We Enter 2014
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Dec 28, 2013 – 01:02 PM GMTBy: Sy_Harding
Psychologists say much of the reason investors have such a dismal record of buying high and selling low, of being excited and buying enthusiastically at market tops and then bailing out in disgust at market […]
Source: DefSysThe Army wants to be able to anonymously scan social media platforms and open-source information from up to 40 countries and in 66 languages, and perform big data analytics on huge data sets of the information in search of trends in political, military, economic and other areas. And it wants to be able to do it from a smartphone.In […]
In the last chapter of our five part Big Data in Security series, expert Data Scientists Brennan Evans and Mahdi Namazifar join me to discuss their work on a cloud anti-phishing solution.Phishing is a well-known historical threat. Essentially, it’s social engineering via email and it continues to be effective and potent. What is TRAC currently doing in this space to protect Cisco […]
Recently I had an opportunity to sit down with the talented data scientists from Cisco’s Threat Research, Analysis, and Communications (TRAC) team to discuss Big Data security challenges, tools and methodologies. The following is part one of five in this series where Jisheng Wang, John Conley, and Preetham Raghunanda share how TRAC is tackling Big Data.Given the hype surrounding “Big Data,” what does that term […]
Where have the stock market bears gone?With stocks near all-time highs, the bears have definitely been toning it down.Even the vocal bears are warning stocks will go up before coming down.Trader Steve Cortes tweeted this chart of Investors Intelligence’s latest survey of bulls and bears. The percentage of bears in the market is at an incredibly low level.It’s worth noting […]
Around a third of the UK’s larger organizations – around 6,400 – will implement big data analytics programs in the next five years, pushing the demand for big data specialists up by 243 per cent to 69,000.
The figures come from a report produced by e-skills UK on behalf of SAS UK & Ireland which collected data from over 1,000 organizations.
The […]
Last week we looked at how to buy a stock that blew up. The stock we looked at was Akamai Technologies (AKAM) that closed a week ago at $46.53. A week later it is trading at $45.22 — well-within its normal weekly trading range of $2.54. I still like AKAM’s potential upside.This week we are going to explore how we […]
Recently, we discovered a new IE zero-day exploit in the wild, which has been used in a strategic Web compromise. Specifically, the attackers inserted this zero-day exploit into a strategically important website, known to draw visitors that are likely interested in national and international security policy. We have identified relationships between the infrastructure used in this attack and that used […]
