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 […]
By Aaron Krol May 14, 2014 | More than a hundred companies set up booths at the 2014 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo to demonstrate their products, but it seems safe to say only one of them
could claim the Miami Heat as a customer.Ayasdi, whose eclectic client base also includes Merck, General
Electric, Citigroup, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, […]
The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life.Commercial data brokers know if you have diabetes. Your electric company can see what time you come home at night. And tracking companies can tell where you go on weekends by snapping photos of your car’s license plate and cataloging […]
Big data places enormous demands on storage and in many cases conventional technologies are struggling to keep up.In an effort to deliver improved economics and at the same time enable organizations to access and process any type of data, on any type of storage device, anywhere in the world, IBM has unveiled a portfolio of software defined storage products.Codenamed “Elastic […]
U.S. Dollar/Yen Dynamics and the Stock MarketStock-Markets / US DollarMay 12, 2014 – 04:17 PM GMTBy: Michael_Pento
It is imperative to understand the dynamics between the U.S. dollar and the Japanese Yen in order to grasp what is occurring across international markets. Investors have been borrowing Yen at nearly zero percent interest rates and buying […]
Watch for Stock Market Sell SignalsStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 10, 2014 – 10:54 AM GMTBy: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX reversed back down beneath Short-term resistance at 1876.23. The balance of all the supports are just beneath this morning’s low at 1867.02. The Ending Diagonal Trendline is at 1865.00. Either the supports or the trendline may be […]
“Sell in May and go away.”This stock market adage has served investors well four years in a row. Every year since 2010, stock markets around the world have suffered significant corrections between a high reached in May and a low in the summer or early autumn: by 15 percent in 2010, 19 percent in 2011, 9 percent in 2012 and […]
Benchmarks ended Wednesday’s trading session mostly higher following indications from Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen that key lending rates would remain low. Market moved upwards after Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to discuss measures to ease the Ukrainian crisis. The Dow and S&P 500 ended in the green. However, intense selling pressure in Internet stocks dragged down the Nasdaq. Separately, […]
WHEN the internet was gathering steam in the mid 1990s, White House policy wonks got together under President Clinton’s nerdy aide, Ira Magaziner, to find ways to support it. Principles emerged like the “tax free internet” (ie, no punishing tariffs on ecommerce). Today, with big data in the headlines, a new gaggle of policy geeks have put forward a plan […]
Selling pressure in Internet stocks and a decline in AIG’s quarterly income dragged the benchmarks down on Tuesday. While Twitter led the decline among Internet stocks, AIG adversely affected the financial sector. New deals in the health care sector failed to restrict the day’s losses. Meanwhile, investors kept an eye on the latest developments in Ukraine. The day’s economic reports […]
