Since its lows in mid-October, biotech stocks have sparkled, particularly the Big four – Amgen (AMGN), Biogen Idec (BIIB), Celgene (CELG), and Gilead (GILD) – which have demonstrated sustainable growth pathways. With the market’s renewed volatility in recent days, they have pulled back some, which only made them much more reasonably priced.But the more attractive buys in the sector, say […]
by Jason Gumpert, Editorpublished November 9, 2014Microsoft Social Listening has grown to more than a thousand customers so far, and the product will be making a leap in its sentiment analysis coverage in 2015. The product will expand from six languages (with Italian to be added in the next month or so) up to nineteen as the product shifts to […]
Most ‘big data’ marketing is a waste of time, and here’s whyUsing big data to look at past trends is not the best way to work out what your customers want, argues Peter Swan of the UNSW Australia Business School in this cross-posting from The Conversation.A passer-by happens upon a drunk searching for a lost wallet under a streetlight. With nothing in […]
It’s not new news that the USPS is going through an immensely difficult transitional period at this point in time. Stamp prices are continually on the rise, Saturday delivery was on the verge of being canceled, and office closures and layoffs are occurring around the country. Much of the difficulties come from an increasingly competitive marketplace that’s cutting into the […]
Ursula Burns, chairman and CEO, Xerox.According to a recent Fortune study, the number of women CEOs in the Fortune 500 is at its highest total yet at 24 (51 in the Fortune 1,000).Despite this overall low number, Fortune illustrated some interesting trends, including data that shows that women-led businesses posted better returns than the stock market and generated more than their share […]
Joost Schreve, vice president of mobile at TripAdvisor, probably has one of the best jobs in the travel industry.The former-CEO of Everytrail (the company was bought by TripAdvisor in February 2011) doesn’t really have to get involved in sales or the direct commercial activities of TripAdvisor’s products – instead, he oversees the company’s development of mobile products and gets to […]
It was just in April that Clari — a mobile-first sales tool that uses data science and predictive analytics to help sales people do their jobs — emerged from stealth with $6 million in backing from Sequoia. Today the company is announcing another funding milestone: a Series B round of $20 million.Andy Byrne, the company’s founder and CEO, says Clari plans to […]
SiSense, a business intelligence startup that is among those making big data analytics accessible to ordinary business users (and not just data scientists) is today announcing more funding: a $30 million Series C round led by DFJ Growth — the VC’s arm dedicated to later-stage investments that recently announced a new fund we understand to be totalling over $500 million (in May, its size […]
Editor’s note: Article originally published on May 19, 2014Today I want to examine the relationship between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and stock market returns. The purpose will be to determine if periods of strong economic growth correlate to strong stock market returns. Does looking at the macro economic data help or hinder you as an investor?Let’s look at the data […]
We’re going to open this week with a discussion of one aspect of market psychology that we hope you’ll find interesting.We believe it’s worthy of discussion because it happens often enough to be chartable, and, to a fairly great degree, its outcome is also predictable.It’s quite simply the phenomenon of the sideways moving market.Time Frames and Market Patterns We should be […]
