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A little over a year ago, EMC and its […]
News generally consists of newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events, that can serve to inform a population about events that may affect their lives. One news story is hardly sufficient to reveal the true nature or features of either a person or an organization, but when news is reported over time from different sources and […]
Every two days, the world generates as much data as there was in existence until 10 years ago. And while this data has enormous potential, it sometimes feels like we’re drowning in it.That was just one of the observations shared during the third-annual Innovation Day at Binghamton University. The April 24 event, which drew about 125 participants from industry and […]
Big Data is the new Artificial IntelligenceThe failure of Artificial Intelligence. Back in the 1980s there was a popular field called Artificial Intelligence, the major idea of which was to figure out how experts do what they do, reduce those tasks to a set of rules, then program computers with those rules, effectively replacing the experts. The goal […]
The technologies that fly under the banner of “big data” may be new, but the business strategies have a familiar look.A prime example is the announcement on Wednesday from Pivotal, the big data and cloud computing company, a joint venture of EMC and VMware, in which General Electric has a stake.Pivotal is introducing its “Big Data Suite,” a bundle of […]
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John PodestaMarch 20, 2014 03:46 PM EDT Share This PostIn January, President Obama charged me with leading a […]
John Wanamaker, the innovative Philadelphia merchant who pioneered the modern department store in the Gilded Age, was such a fan of newspapers that he is credited with buying the first full-page ad. But even Wanamaker knew that the most efficient form of advertising available in the 1890s wasn’t terribly efficient at all. “Half the money I spend on advertising […]
Why is Spanish social media sentiment so down on the Estado de la Unión (SOTU) address even though President Obama has an overwhelming likeable sentiment?Although the President urged Congress to pass the immigration reform bill this year in his “Year of Action” plan, was his call for action underplayed? Are the minimum wage reform proposals short-sighted? Is the economic […]
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Many of us now expect our online activities to be recorded and analyzed, but we assume the physical spaces we inhabit are different. The data broker industry doesn’t see it that way. To them, even the act of walking down the street is a legitimate data […]
Pope Brar is a money manager based on the West Coast who has spent a considerable amount of time analyzing the success (as well as the failure) of some of the greatest investors.
Brar has carefully examined the records of such legendary investors as Warren Buffett, Seth Klarman and others to see what they have done to achieve such success over […]
