Happy New Year! I hope it was relaxing, restful and slightly over-indulgent. If you’re anything like me, you’re probably wondering if you can stick to any New Year’s resolutions unlike last year (less chocolate, more exercise, less time glued to my mobile phone, better jokes, improved punctuation etc.) So far this year (six days in) I’ve managed to succeed in […]
What’s next for Big Data? Maybe a little thinning down of the industry and a little more focus.In fact, it may be underway. Google Trends shows searches of the term “Big Data” peaked in October, ending a nearly ceaseless climb that began three years earlier. Google doesn’t offer absolute numbers, but in that time there was a hundredfold increase in […]
Related MicroZone ResourcesDownload Hunk: Splunk Analytics for HadoopBuild Big Data Apps with JavaScript and DjangoGet Started Developing with Splunk, the Platform for Machine DataLike this piece? Share it with your friends:|MoreMainstream Big Data is all about MapReduce, but when looking at real-time data, limitations of that approach are starting to show. In this post, I’ll review Google’s most important […]
twitter value – twitter stock price todayWhen I look at the twitter chart, I am not flabbergasted, I am more in awe that it seems the dot com boom of old back in the 90’s seems to be repeating.YES! if you can remember that dot com boom, the internet was growing at a rapid rate, and search engines were well […]
It appears that the “Santa Rally” is in full swing, and the place to be this holiday season is in Internet Software & Services stocks.
Stocks like Yahoo!, Google, Shutterstock, and Pandora are all exhibiting considerable strength heading into the end of the year. A quick glance at the First Trust DJ Internet Index Fund shows that internet stocks are what’s hot […]
Q&A: How Market Participants are Using Social MediaDec 23, 2013 ||
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Social media is becoming a critical listening post for investors and traders who are looking for early signals on market direction. The volume of traffic on networks such as Facebook and Twitter is enormous and growing, and these larger data sets lend themselves to more meaningful analysis.Facebook has […]
Eagle Rock Energy Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ:EROC) jumped more than 15 percent in the current trading session following the news that Regency Energy Partners is acquiring midstream business of Eagle Rock in a deal valued at about$1.3 billion. EROC shares are trading in the range of $5.34 to $6.14 today. The company has a market capitalization of $973.51 million.Rite Aid Corporation […]
In creating an entirely new way to compress data, a team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has drawn inspiration from physics and the arts. The result is a new data compression method that outperforms existing techniques, such as JPEG for images, and that could eventually be adopted for medical, scientific and video […]
The Twitter IPO on November 7 started with an opening price of about $45. After trading between $40 and $45 for the next couple of weeks, the stock has taken off higher.
Some traders are looking for an opportunity to get into the stock, while others might be wondering when to exit the stock to lock in some gains. The analysis […]
RFID. While its roots are generally traced back to World War II, radio frequency identification technology did not find a supply chain toehold until the 1970s when the first patents were issued. That was the same time frame in which the U.S. government’s Department of Energy asked the Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop a system for tracking nuclear materials. […]
