What is the most amazing aspect of this correction? It’s the fact that so few people understand it. I haven’t been around as long as some, but I’ve consistently watched the financial news networks since the 1990s. I have never seen a period where the folks who report and those who are interviewed have been so confused.Let me provide some […]
Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160) is a bug found in OpenSSL due to a misimplementation of the Heartbeat functionality, and found by Neel Mehta (Google Security Team)A lot of people (Existentialize, IOActive, etc.) already provided an analysis of the CVE-2014-0160 bug, widely known under the name “Heartbleed”, but nobody has analyzed the fix yet.I had a look at both the code and […]
Worldwide IT spending is expected to increase this year, but it’s nothing compared to how much money will flow into Big Data. And for employees at those companies, more money is certainly a good thing.
As a new IDC report reveals, spending in the Big Data market will reach $32.4 billion by 2017, or nearly six times the growth rate of […]
This week’s cover story recounts the origins of IEX, a new stock exchange that hopes to level the playing field among investors, let some disinfecting sunshine in on the shadowy world of high-frequency trading and spur Wall Street to follow its lead. But a non-engineering, non-algorithm-writing type might be forgiven for finding it hard to understand the technological and financial […]
Higinio O. Maycotte is CEO of Umbel, a company that uses data to increase publishers’ understanding of their audiences and online advertising revenue. Knight Foundation supports Umbel through its Enterprise Fund.
Curiosity drives journalism. Questions are the foundation of the industry. And attaining knowledge for your reader, knowledge they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to gain themselves, is what makes media […]
With shares of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) trading around $62, is FB an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE, or STAY AWAY? Let’s analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework:T = Trends for a Stock’s MovementFacebook is engaged in building social products in order to create utility for users, developers, and advertisers. People use Facebook to stay connected […]
SummaryReports say authors may have been paid to write favorable articles about micro/small cap biotechs.
Plenty of people contribute content who clearly don’t know what they are doing.
The writing world has gotten flatter.
by Roger Nusbaum AdvisorShares ETF StrategistThere was an interesting […]
Four Vs of big data – image ShutterstockOne of the themes of this year’s main European IT exhibition, CeBIT, was Big Data. In fact, it’s one of the core themes of most events I’ve been attending the last months. Big Data is everywhere: marketing, analytics, information management, healthcare, the list goes on. And despite discussions and debates in the area […]
To make marketing data work, you need to be able to measure and understand performance against a standard set of metrics. The challenge lies in marrying data from web analytics with search and social signals, and then being able to tie that to business value (for example, the correlation of search rankings with visits and conversions).Did you know the average […]
People charged with making sense of big data should understand one thing: You’re working against human evolution. Not surprisingly, that can cause problems.“Big data is very sexy and makes it seem like we can figure out anything. Well, maybe,” says Dr. Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine. Shermer, who holds a Ph.D. in the history of science, has written more than a dozen […]
