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BigData-Startups | How Nestlé Understands Brand Sentiment Of …

Print PDFNestlé is a very big company, with 486 factories in 86 countries and employing over 330.000 employees worldwide. The have a global portfolio of more than 2.000 global and local brands and they are the leading company in nutrition, health and wellness products. In 2012 they had total revenue of 75 billion euro (98 billion dollar), serving millions of […]

Will the Internet Destroy the Stock Market? – Harvard Business Review

Last week, the NASDAQ exchange froze for three hours due to a faulty connection. On Monday, Europe’s largest derivatives market shut down for an hour because of a glitch. Last month, 14,000 people in rural Iowa lost internet access after a minor car crash crushed a cable. In 2011, the entire country of Egypt had a total internet blackout after […]

StockTwits Review – The Twitter Of Stock Investing, Only Better …

>>” alt=”StockTwits – Just ask what’s going on and you’ll get an answer in seconds >>>” src=”http://www.naation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/StockTwits-aapl-Share-Ideas-Learn-from-Passionate-Investors-Traders.png” width=”640″ height=”513″/>StockTwits – Just ask what’s going on and you’ll get an answer in seconds >>>StockTwits is a short messaging social network just like Twitter, but totally adapted to the needs of stock investors and traders to manage the minute by minute flow […]

New Site Tracks Social Media on Stocks – Barron's – Barrons.com

Ever wonder what people are saying about your stocks? Tracking social-media sentiment about companies has become a regular part of portfolio management for many traders and investors in the last couple of years. If you’re one of them, or just curious, it’s definitely worth looking at a new Website from Market Prophit. Marketprophit.com, which is free while in beta […]

New Site Tracks Social Media on Stocks – Barron's

Ever wonder what people are saying about your stocks? Tracking social-media sentiment about companies has become a regular part of portfolio management for many traders and investors in the last couple of years. If you’re one of them, or just curious, it’s definitely worth looking at a new Website from Market Prophit. Marketprophit.com, which is free while in beta […]

Intro To Big Data Companies: Big Returns, Big Risks [General …

One of the hottest areas of information technology right now is the field of “Big Data”, and closely related “Business Intelligence”. While these concepts don’t get anywhere near as much discussion as some other emerging industries, say 3D Printing (see my article on 3D Printing stocks here) or Medical Marijuana (See my article here), Big Data and Business Intelligence are […]

SunGame: A Penny Stock Trading For $2.1 Billion – Seeking Alpha

Editors’ Note: This article covers a micro-cap stock. Please be aware of the risks associated with these stocks.SunGame Corporation (OTCQB:SGMZ) is the most expensive penny stock I have ever seen. In fact, it is safe to say that this one stock completely disproves the “efficient market hypothesis,” which is so loved by academics. Not only is this stock grossly overvalued, […]

Emotion, affect and sentiment in Switzerland | The History of …

From 19 to 21 April 2013, the University of Lausanne in Switzerland hosted an international conference on the subject of ‘Emotion, Affect, and Sentiment: The Language and Aesthetics of Feeling’.  Agnieszka Soltysik, Andreas Langlotz, and Juliette Vuille organised the conference on behalf of the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE).  Here, Mary Flannery and Juliette Vuille reflect on […]

Chicago: City of Big Data and National Day of Civic Hacking | Code …

For National Day of Civic Hacking, Chicago will play host to three separate events. The first is the ChicagoMigraHack, a hackathon focused on the issue of immigration. The second event will be a youth focused hackathon at the Adler Planetarium. And finally, there will be an assortment of different civic hacking activities at Hack for Chicago hosted at the entrepreneurial […]

Bitcoin & Social: The Cryptocurrencies Interdependency

Bitcoin’s quite the little minx isn’t it? The digital currency has been on a wild ride of late and has managed to engross not just the hard core internet users, but the world in general.From a standing start at $7.20 around 15 months ago, Bitcoin managed to hit $266 at around a week ago, before taking a hit and falling back to […]