Stock Market Bears TurnStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jul 22, 2014 – 10:26 AM GMTBy: Jack_SteimanSo maybe that means we gap up tomorrow, or maybe someone will finally the initiative and run this thing one way or the other. It is absolutely ridiculous how this market is gapping up, literally, every day. Yet the market goes nowhere as the trend is […]
Data might just be the new driver of business success.Airbnb uses data to match lodging and travelers. Netflix uses data to personalize your entertainment. Amazon uses data to sell you more stuff. And Google uses data to drive better search, advertising, email, and social.But data doesn’t reveal its secrets easily — or cheaply. Hence the exploding role of data scientist, which […]
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 […]
This post was written by Claudia Glasser, Director of Business Development here at Jump. You can reach her directly by commenting on this post.90 percent of all the data in the world has been generated over the last two years. The electronic trails left by our business and personal activities, and now millions of connected machines, have given rise to […]
As companies, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) are tech firms that represent more than just search engines. Both have built household brands; Google has even influenced our everyday language, making “googling” a verb. We have become dependent on tools from both of these huge search engines, and many investors may believe that either of these two companies would be a […]
Netflix has more than 48 million subscribers, and it knows a ton about all of them: What they watch, when they watch, when they stop watching.Netflix uses all of that data to help it pick and fund shows, like “House of Cards”, and to help promote different shows to different people. But it insists that it won’t use all of […]
Gains in small-cap and high-growth stocks drove benchmarks higher on Thursday and led the S&P 500 close to a record high. The Nasdaq was boosted primarily by gains in bio-tech stocks. Markets also received mixed economic data. While claims for unemployment benefits increased, existing home sales data rose for the first time this year.For a look at the issues currently […]
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Chicago: City of Big Data is an exhibition being presented by the Chicago Architecture Foundation from now until the end of the year. The title City of Big Data is a play on the moniker bestowed on Chicago by Carl Sandburg, “City of Big Shoulders.” The exhibition focuses on how the City of Chicago uses massive collections of digital information […]
The last two times when margin debt reversed and fell after a record-breaking spike, all hell broke loose. In 2000, it was simultaneous. In 2007, it was delayed by a few months. Today, on the surface, everything is still hunky-dory. The Dow is just fractions below its all-time high that it set on Wednesday. But beneath the surface, parts of […]
