Tweed Marijuana Inc., the first publicly traded Canadian producer of the drug, rose from its private placement price as it began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.Tweed rose to $2.52 at 2:07 p.m. in Toronto Friday, up 183% from the issue price of 89 cents based on a private placement on March 7. The shares sank from an opening price […]
The green rush is here.
More than 20 states have approved marijuana use for medicinal purposes and Colorado and Washington are opening up the plant for recreational use. Marijuana companies rose more than 50 percent in 2013 and opened 2014 with a bang, rising almost 150 percent in just three weeks.
This list gives an overview of publicly traded marijuana stocks worth […]
Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ:CROX) jumped more than 14 percent in the current trading session following the news that CEO John McCarvel is retiring and Blackstone Group is making an investment of $200 million in the company. CROX shares are trading in the range of $14.75 to $15.28 today. The company has a market capitalization of $1.35 billion and P/E ratio of […]
We’ve heard how Big Data is transforming various industries, and how it can affect the fortunes of big businesses, but very few actually specify how Big Data is transforming the world and people’s lives.To illustrate this, WhoIsHostingThis.com has created an infographic that explores the “Top 7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Our Lives by 2020″. Though the infographic is pertaining […]
The Big Players in Big DataThere is a good deal of buzz around Big Data—hardly a week goes by without a new startup or business preaching the virtues of mining massive tracts of information. Understandably, many have trouble seeing beyond the hype, but nowhere are the benefits of Big Data more tangible than in the healthcare sector.IBM predicts a 20% […]
