SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—Investors looking for early warnings signs of a shift in U.S. market sentiment would do well to watch tech and biotech stocks.That is because a selloff in those sectors is likely to signal that investors’ confidence in U.S. equities is deteriorating, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Michael Hartnett“U.S. bear view requires [a] tech-wreck,” he writes […]
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — As the bull market in stocks and bonds shows no sign of slowing, investors are trying to time the inevitable: when it all comes crashing down.It isn’t just MarketWatch. The financial media these days are filled with a mixed message: Growth is finally here and it’s time to invest — until it all ends like the […]
Benchmarks snapped two-day losses to end in the green on Thursday as mixed economic data reduced fears about sooner-than-expected rate hike. Moreover, mixed economic data put the brakes on dollar rally yesterday. Meanwhile, financial stocks posted solid gains after Fed’s stress tests. However, decline in energy shares following oil price slump limited some of yesterday’s gains. The Dow and S&P […]
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Mobileye NV /quotes/zigman/36259923/delayed/quotes/nls/mbly MBLY +48.00% surged in its first few minutes of trading in the U.S. stock market Friday, attesting to strong investors’ interest in the Israeli technology company. The maker of camera systems that help cars detect other vehicles and obstacles priced 35.6 million shares at $25 a share. Mobileye is offering 8.3 million shares […]
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]]>SAN FRANCISCO — Google made a big contribution to the big data world 10 years ago, when it released a paper on MapReduce, a programming model for doing big computing jobs on hefty data sets. But it turns out that, all this time, Google has been working on something far more advanced.At Google’s annual I/O shindig today, the […]
Big Data trends intensify storage business boomStaff writer, DIGITIMES, Taipei [Tuesday 3 June 2014]The cumulative amount of data produced worldwide is predicted to reach 40ZB by 2020, which is 50 times more than that of 2010 according to preliminary estimates. That means the amount of storage data will double once every two years, and the era of the unprecedented digital […]
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]]>SAN FRANCISCO — The Hadoop open-source big data software is great at predicting things, and the more data it has to work with, the better the predictions, Charles Zedlewski, Cloudera’s vice president of products, said today at VentureBeat’s DataBeat conference.It follows that the industries that rely the most on the ability to predict will be the first to […]
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]]>SAN FRANCISCO — One of the ways big data can help companies is by providing more information on who the best sales leads are — and helping salespeople connect with those leads.At VentureBeat’s DataBeat conference today, several companies talked about how exactly they are optimizing their sales efforts through the use of data.Demandforce and InsideSales.com are both focus […]
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