“The path to a commercialized web-based service is certainly not as linear as one might expect, especially today.” – Jim Mayes, co-founder of CignalTypically, a startup forms with an idea that solves a problem. Then a core team of the company is assembled, a smattering of funds are pulled together to develop a minimally viable product, and so on. […]
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India’s Sensex index rose in mid-day trading to a new record today of over 25,000 and the Indian rupee hit 10 month highs against the US dollar on the back of a landslide victory for the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party. The rally wasn’t a one-time event—since Modi was named prime ministerial candidate on September 12, Indian equities have gained […]
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a portfolio manager confess to using technical analysis. Well, not using that word.
Picking stocks because of their price movements fell into academic disfavor in the 1960s, when mainframe computers gave professors the ability to collect and crunch large data sets. The University of Chicago’s Gene Fama showed that past stock prices had […]
The last two times when margin debt reversed and fell after a record-breaking spike, all hell broke loose. In 2000, it was simultaneous. In 2007, it was delayed by a few months. Today, on the surface, everything is still hunky-dory. The Dow is just fractions below its all-time high that it set on Wednesday. But beneath the surface, parts of […]
The development of distinct, competing camps of vendors is one sure sign that an emerging market is maturing. This is precisely what we’re seeing now in the Big Data market.This morning Cloudera and MongoDB announced they are forming a “strategic partnership” that will see the vendors even more tightly integrate their two technologies and, in their words, “help enterprises define […]
The Data Economy is an analysis column by Wikibon Senior Analyst Jeff Kelly covering the business of Big Data.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on theCUBE in June 2013.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kicked off this morning’s Microsoft Big Data event in San Francisco with talk of “ambient intelligence,” the need for a data culture in the enterprise, and something called the data […]
The FBI is looking into the practices of high-frequency stock trading firms, adding to the scrutiny that is being placed on the practice.Brokerage firms use high-frequency trading to get a jump on their competitors. Powerful computers analyze market information and then execute buy and sell orders for stocks within a fraction of a second.One way that high-frequency traders have gained […]
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The FBI is looking into the practices of high-frequency stock trading firms, adding to the scrutiny that is being placed on the practice.
Brokerage firms use […]
