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Friday, December 13, 2013 Market participants look at many measures to gauge investor sentiment, even though they don’t always show an accurate picture. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), often referred to as the fear index, shows the market’s expectation of 30-day volatility, but it does not parse out institutional or hedge fund activity. Surveys like the […]
In our last post, we warned of a new Windows local privilege escalation vulnerability being used in the wild. We noted that the Windows bug (CVE-2013-5065) was exploited in conjunction with a patched Adobe Reader bug (CVE-2013-3346) to evade the Reader sandbox. CVE-2013-3346 was exploited to execute the attacker’s code in the sandbox-restricted Reader process, where CVE-2013-5065 was exploited to […]
Technology stocks drove the Nasdaq to a 13-year high, but the Dow and S&P 500 dropped into the red on Black Friday. Both the Dow & S&P 500 had opened higher and the latter touched an intra-day high before they both closed in negative territory during a short trading session. Technology emerged as the biggest gainers among the S&P 500 […]
The Dow notched another record high on Wednesday to join the S&P 500 in the green. The index was boosted by gains made by Microsoft, encouraging European economic data and investors’ expectations of the Federal Reserve continuing with its stimulus program. However, Nasdaq finished in the negative zone dragged by a significant drop in Tesla Motors’ shares. Among the S&P […]
Think Big Analytics raises $3M, goes old school with big data consultancy | PandoDaily
Michael Carney
Michael Carney has spent his career exploring the world of early stage technology as an investor and entrepreneur and has participated in building companies in multiple countries within North and South America and Asia. Ultimately, he is an enthusiast of all things shiny and electronic and […]
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% […]
Big Data Be Damned, The Web Still Needs a Human Touch | PandoDaily
Erin Griffith
Erin Griffith covers New York startups for PandoDaily. She’s worked as staff writer for Adweek and a private equity blogger for peHUB. Her writing has appeared in Venture Capital Journal, BBC.com, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, FT.com, and BUST. She plays keyboard in a band called Team Genius and Tweets […]
New VC Firm Data Collective Launches to Invest in Big Data with a Big Partnership | PandoDaily
Sarah Lacy
Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily.
She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0” (Gotham Books, May 2008) and […]
