Why Is Positive Sentiment About Obamacare Increasing? | Twitter …

SharePinterestFacebookEmailFollowing last week’s revelations concerning President Obama’s broken promises about the benefits of Obamacare, the president’s poll numbers have fallen dramatically.But has the president seen the same blowback on social media? Using the analytics tool Crimson Hexagon, we tracked the sentiment surrounding Obamacare over the last week.Of the 8,869 relevant social media posts, support for the president’s healthcare law has […]

Space-Time Insight uses Big Data to create a smarter grid …

If seeing is believing, then upstart Space-Time Insight could play a big role in the realization of a truly smart grid.The company develops geospatial “situational intelligence” solutions that promise to help utilities dramatically improve the accuracy of generation demand forecasts, and in a much smaller window of time. That’s important for a number of reasons — including the quest to […]

HP News – HP Restructures Big Data Analytics with Expanded …

HP Restructures Big Data Analytics with Expanded Vertica Analytics PlatformCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — HP today announced enhancements to the HP Vertica Analytics Platform, enabling organizations to accelerate business value from a vastly expanded variety of data.Version 7 of the HP Vertica Analytics Platform, also called HP Vertica Crane, dramatically simplifies the exploration and analysis of semistructured and “dark” data,(1) provides enhanced […]

Reality check for US stock markets after day of record highs …

US stock markets rose after incoming Fed chair Janet Yellen calmed fears the central bank might begin to taper its bond-buying programme before next year. Photograph: Richard Drew/APAmerican stock indices the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended lower on Monday while the Dow failed to close above its milestone level of 16,000 as stocks were sold off late following […]

Stock Market Hits Record High of 16,000 Under 'Terrible Socialist …

David Plouffe, 2008 campaign manager for Barack Obama, isn’t going to miss this opportunity. When the Dow Jones hit 16,000 for the first time Monday morning, Plouffe tweeted, “DJIA 6443 March 6 2009. DJIA 16000+ Nov 18 2013. That terrible socialist, @BarackObama.”The Dow Jones industrial average hit 16,000 for the first time this morning, and the Nasdaq began within 15 […]

New data science institute to help scholars harness 'big data'

BERKELEY — In a world awash in data, UC Berkeley is meeting the flood head-on by establishing a new institute to support faculty, researchers and students in their efforts to mine this information in areas as diverse as astronomy and economics, genetics and demography.Berkeley Nobelist Saul Perlmutter describes the new Berkeley Institute for Data Science at a Nov. 12 […]

Oracle Boosts Big Data Appliance, Adds Cloudera | Data Center …

Oracle Boosts Big Data Appliance, Adds Cloudera

November 13th, 2013
By: John Rath

Oracle gives a storage and Cloudera boost to its big data appliance, Alcatel-Lucent helps uncover mobile analytics, and CA ERwin bridges the big data gap in the enterprise.
Oracle Boosts Big Data Appliance
Oracle (ORCL) announced that Big Data Appliance X4-2 is now available, providing enterprises with a comprehensive and secure engineered […]

Get Ready for a Major Stock Market Pivot Reversal :: The Market …

Get Ready for a Major Stock Market Pivot Reversal

Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Nov 11, 2013 – 04:12 PM GMTBy: Anthony_Cherniawski

The Pre-Market is losing what little gain that it had over the weekend. All of the analysts that I have reviewed this morning are looking for (at least) one more push higher. Despite all that, […]

A Massive Company Just Rolled Over For Carl Icahn And Its Stock

REUTERS/Jeff ZelevanskySee AlsoCARL ICAHN: Here’s How Rich You’d Be If You Bought Stock In Icahn Enterprises In 2009The Most Anticipated Chess Match In Decades Is Off To A Disastrous StartHere’s What Happened When 17 Ordinary People Met Steve JobsThis is how you play perfectly nice with Carl Icahn.
The world’s largest off-shore drilling company, Transocean, has just agreed to a deal […]

Stocks near highs face Yellen, Cisco, shaky sentiment – Market …

By Wallace Witkowski, MarketWatch

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