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Jet downing, weak earnings rattle stock market | Business …

Originally published July 17, 2014 at 6:35 AM | Page modified July 17, 2014 at 10:38 PMThe downing of a passenger plane flying over Ukraine rattled U.S. financial markets Thursday, deepening a slide set off by a batch of disappointing company earnings and a weak home construction report.All three major stock indexes ended lower for the first time in a […]

Tech Analysis: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt • Eurogamer.net

Ranking among the cream of the crop of PC developers working today, CD Projekt RED has shown a no-compromise approach to every project it’s set its mind to. Case in point: the sublime Xbox 360 edition of The Witcher 2 didn’t simply cut back the original PC code, but instead had code rewritten from scratch to push the console aesthetic […]

"Big Data" Hits Chicago Streets – Western Journalism

In Chicago, the Big Data initiative is about to make a major leap this summer.Urban planners are excited about the “Array of Things” project, which is installing “smart” lamp posts… pole-mounted sensors that gather data on everything from air quality to sound volume.These smart lamps could make Chicago “a safer, more efficient and cleaner place to live,” according to Charlie […]

Metro Detroit Stock Trading Event July 2014 | The Brown Report …

Metro Detroit Stock Trading Event.Join stock trader and coach Jason Brown as he breaks down the art of chart reading and how to profit with options at the Microsoft Store inside of Somerset Mall in Troy, MI. Wednesday July 23, 2014 from 7pm – 9pmCategory:YouTube Video Analysis

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Databricks Snags $33M In Series B And Debuts Cloud Platform For …

Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as a company.There is little doubt that big data is a big deal these days and companies are popping up to help customers process the data. Databricks […]

CRN 25 Big Data Infrastructure Companies – KDnuggets

We examine the top 25 Big Data Infrastructure companies, part of CRN Big Data 100, which includes Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft.
By Grant Marshall, June 2014.The CRN 25 Big Data Infrastructure companies includes notable companies who provide the tools for other companies to handle and analyze big data.One interesting observation about the companies in this list compared to the […]

What you missed in Big Data: On the bleeding edge | SiliconANGLE

It’s been yet another exciting week in the fast-paced world of analytics with a string of updates spanning the entire data processing lifecycle, from the initial collection stage all the way to the visual presentation of the insights gained along the way.  It was RapidMiner that fired the opening shot with the acquisition of fellow startup and longtime strategic partner […]

Stock Market News for June 20, 2014 – Zacks Investment Research

Benchmarks closed Thursday’s choppy session mostly higher as optimism from Wednesday’s policy statement continued. The modest gains helped S&P 500 hit another record high, but Nasdaq snapped its four-day winning streak. Stocks had dropped to the red zone for a considerable period during the afternoon before managing a rebound almost at the end of the session. Economic data on initial […]

Tech Analysis: Sunset Overdrive at E3 2014 • Eurogamer.net

One of the breakout hits of this year’s E3, Sunset Overdrive’s blend of bandy-legged acrobatics and toonified gunplay drew some of the longest queues of the show. It’s just the sort of vibrant exclusive Microsoft needs, but – given Xbox One’s performance issues with the similarly effects-heavy Dead Rising 3 – can the console actually deliver this anarchic visual style […]

Jaspersoft BI Platform Adds Big Data Capabilities | The Virtualization …

Jaspersoft, an industry-leading BI platform, has announced its first release since being acquired by TIBCO back in April. With version 5.6, Jaspersoft has enhanced its platform with a new big data connectivity architecture and new analytic calculations, extended its interactive reporting features, and improved the overall platform performance. This release also introduces a new product for advanced embedded analytics: Visualize.js.Big DataJaspersoft now […]