DataTorrent made its primary product, DataTorrent RTS, generally available today. The product is built on top of Hadoop 2.0 and allows companies to process massive amounts of big data in real time.According to Phu Hoang, co-founder of the company, who was one of the first engineers at Yahoo! hired in 1996, the product can process more than a billion data events per second. Prior to […]
Big data and the growth of services that help us make sense of it are some of the more fascinating developments of our connected world, but in some cases they can be also some of the more scary, with companies collecting billions of data points that speak to every aspect of what we do online. Today, a report published by the Federal Trade Commission […]
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Eagle Eye Networks, Inc., provider of […]
Gains in small-cap and high-growth stocks drove benchmarks higher on Thursday and led the S&P 500 close to a record high. The Nasdaq was boosted primarily by gains in bio-tech stocks. Markets also received mixed economic data. While claims for unemployment benefits increased, existing home sales data rose for the first time this year.For a look at the issues currently […]
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]]>Sign up for our weekly newsletters, and you’ll get the latest insights from our Dylan’s Desk and DeanBeat columns before they’re published on VentureBeat.Two days at VentureBeat’s DataBeat conference this week have convinced me that “big data” is real and potentially transformative — but, […]
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]]>After months of anticipation, many fans of the HBO hit series “Game of Thrones” encountered problems viewing the season premiere. Because of the overwhelming number of people tuning in simultaneously to watch the show on HBO GO, the system was unable to serve all the requests, leaving hundreds of thousands of subscribers stranded and unable to watch their […]
Benchmarks ended a narrow trading session in the green on Monday, boosted by gains in Internet, bio-tech and small-cap stocks. However, developments on the deals front were mixed, limiting the Dow’s gains. While AT&T agreed to acquire DirecTV, Pfizer’s final bid was rejected by AstraZeneca. As the day was devoid of any major economic data, investors focused their attention on […]
Benchmarks enjoyed a late-day reversal to end in the green on Friday, boosted by gains in small-cap stocks and advances in the consumer discretionary sector. Markets also received mixed economic data on Friday. While a surge in construction of new U.S. homes in April lifted investor sentiment, an unforeseen fall in consumer sentiment in May adversely affected the mood. Despite […]
11:30a ET Friday, May 16, 2014Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod today contrasts technical analysis of financial markets with value analysis and sides with the latter. Of course neither are very good in a market that is as comprehensively manipulated by central bank intervention as the gold market is –http://www.gata.org/taxonomy/term/21– but as happened with the collapse […]
Benchmarks retreated from record highs on Wednesday dragged down by declines in small-cap and Internet stocks. Also, selloffs in the consumer discretionary sector had a negative impact on benchmarks. The day’s economic reports were limited to U.S. wholesale prices, which reported an increase by 0.6% in April. Meanwhile, investors were focused on recent developments in Ukraine where pro-Russian rebels and […]
