ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.
Thank the U.S. National Security Agency for bringing Big Data onto the national stage. The agency’s questionable use of data mining and analysis in the name of national security raised Main Street’s awareness of Big Data like never before.
Making sense of a wellspring of unstructured […]
Originally published December 24, 2013 at 5:57 AM | Page modified December 25, 2013 at 2:52 AM
NEW YORK — Stocks rose in a holiday-shortened trading day Tuesday, helped by a report that showed American companies were investing in their businesses at the fastest pace since January.Markets were open for just half a day ahead of the Christmas holiday, […]
Stocks slip Thursday on disappointing economic reports.Although the Dow Jones Industrial Average managed to hit new record intraday and closing highs on Thursday, stocks generally declined in the wake of an awful report on initial unemployment claims from the Department of Labor. Initial claims for the week ending December 14 climbed by 10,000 to a dismal, 379,000. The four-week moving […]
The banner year for stocks signaled a boom in million-dollar home sales, but what happens if the party ends?By Jeffrey McKinneyFORTUNE — With stocks a whisker from posting a record this year, some investors are latching onto homes that fetch $1 million or more.Surging stock prices and increased consumer confidence are among the factors propelling sales in the upper-end housing market, says Walter Molony, […]
In my experience, one of the singular best investment strategies is to buy assets / asset classes which are most reviled by investors. By reviled, I mean assets where a mere mention of you wanting to invest in them generates nervous sniggers among others, if not howling laughter. Where upon their mention, people hand you business cards, not their own– […]
RFID. While its roots are generally traced back to World War II, radio frequency identification technology did not find a supply chain toehold until the 1970s when the first patents were issued. That was the same time frame in which the U.S. government’s Department of Energy asked the Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop a system for tracking nuclear materials. […]
The S&P 500 closed at another record high and fellow benchmarks ended in the green, while investors were left searching for clues about the timing of the Fed’s tapering of its stimulus plan. The S&P 500 was somewhat boosted by SYSCO Corporation’s (NYSE:SYY) announcement that it was purchasing rival U.S. Foods. The materials sector was the biggest gainer among the […]
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Benchmarks ended in negative territory on Monday as Thanksgiving weekend sales failed to ignite bullish sentiment among investors. Retail stocks were sold heavily, thereby dragging the retail sector and the broader markets. Meanwhile, the upbeat ISM manufacturing report was ignored as investors cautiously await key labor data on Friday. The drop on Cyber Monday comes after the benchmarks notched a […]
Originally published November 29, 2013 at 8:33 AM | Page modified November 30, 2013 at 1:35 AM
NEW YORK — The stock market fizzled Friday at the end of a holiday-shortened trading day, but still logged its longest streak of weekly gains in a decade.The Standard & Poor’s 500 index ended down one point, or 0.1 percent, to 1,805.81. […]
