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 […]
A three-month White House review of how business and government mine massive data sets sees big public and economic benefits from the practice — along with new dangers — but sketches out a murky path towards enforcing privacy protections in the booming tech sector.The White House closed its so-called “big data” review Thursday, including in its findings a set of […]
Zacks Releases 7 Best Stocks for May, 2014
These 7 were hand-picked from the list of 220 Zacks Rank #1 Strong Buys with earnings estimate revisions that are sweeping […]
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I hear it all the time. I see the goofy looks. I feel the awkward stares. Being a technical analysis guy at Zacks is like wearing a Cardinals […]
2014 is no party for stock market investors. January was a smack in the face, especially newcomers, as the markets decided to go for a 5 percent nosedive. But they again recovered in February and some indices put up new all-time highs; others are on the fence and you can feel that doubt is creeping in as investors are starting […]
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Big Data was one of the biggest buzz-words in the technology sector in 2013. The term refers to management of vast quantities of unstructured data, i.e. information available […]
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The myth has been old and strong – Microsoft Corporation (MSFT – Analyst Report) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT – Analyst Report) were once […]
A recent Bipartisan Policy Center report, titled “A Policy Forum on the Use of Big Data in Health Care“, suggests that HIPAA is a burden on healthcare organizations that are trying to innovate and maximize the value of patient big data. But how likely are changes to HIPAA and what should healthcare focus on in the near future to use […]
BI IntelligenceThe world is awash in data.
CIBC, a Canadian bank, predicts that information-generation growth will increase 50 times over the next decade. IDC, a market research firm, similarly forecasts a 44-fold increase in data volumes between 2009 and 2020. Mobile, social, wearables, and The Internet Of Things are playing a large part in driving this explosion in data.Apple upended the […]
