Home » Best Practices, Big Data, Featured, Surveillance, TwitterThe Power of Social Sentiment: Recent Icahn tweet drives investor behaviorBy John Schoeler16 June 2014No CommentOur good friends and partners at Finmaven posted an excellent blog post last week regarding a tweet that was published on Friday. June 6 from high profile activist Carl Icahn disclosing his 9% position in Family Dollar. […]
About TEDx, x = Independently Organized Event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = […]
Canadian GP F1 technical analysis: What went wrong for MercedesBy Craig Scarborough
Sunday, June 8th 2014, 22:35 GMT
Mercedes was denied a sixth consecutive Formula 1 one-two finish by the failure of the kinetic energy recovery system (ERS-K) on both of its cars in the Canadian Grand Prix.Halfway through the race, both Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg reported a loss of power. […]
It’s exactly a year since Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA and GCHQ surveillance began to reach the public domain. As a result, we now know quite a lot about the ways the NSA and its overseas franchises have mastered “big data” technology to hoover up our metadata and monitor our clickstreams (which means, by the way, that there’s no such […]
Stock Market Breaking Bad Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 07, 2014 – 05:21 PM GMTBy: Jesse
Non-Farm Payrolls came in a tad to the low side, but close enough to be considered ‘in-line.’Stocks continued to romp higher. The Russell 2000 and the broader market continue to lag a bit, but has finally returned to even money […]
Golf has never been an exact science. It’s a fuzzy game that many players spend their whole lives attempting to master. Some of that fuzziness, however, may come into focus thanks to a new app for iOS called Arccos. Using something co-founders Sal Syed and Ammad Faisal call “club-to-cloud technology,” Arccos gives golfers the data they need to make better, […]
The general consensus among most people who seriously study markets is that technical analysis is mostly garbage.
After all, how can a investing method that completely disregards a company’s fundamental business prospects in favor of tracking its stock price over time possibly ever get anything right except by chance?
In fact, the most wide-ranging study conducted to date […]
Social media has captured business owners’ attention worldwide, and it continues to be bolstered by massive volumes of big data. While Facebook, Twitter, or any forum or blog offers platforms for communities to gather and share opinions and ideas about products, services, and the like, the content and context are often not clear and completely devoid of emotion. Based on […]
Kes Thygesen is the co-founder and head of product at RolePoint,a recruitment platform where the pipeline is driven by high-quality employee referrals.Big data. You’ve heard about it. You’ve read about it. Maybe you’re building tools that are shaping it. No matter if you’ve taken advantage of it or not, big data has the power to let you analyze success with more […]
Analysis of people’s perception on Robert Vadra
Robert Vadra has been in the center of jibes by opposition parties, particularly BJP for almost an year now.However since Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has actively joined the election campaign for Indian National Congress party, the attacks have become more frequent, intense & personal. Lets gauge the people sentiment over Robert Vadra in […]
