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Fitbit makes stock market debut, share price jumps by more than 50%

–A+Fitbit makes stock market debut, share price jumps by more than 50%By AppleInsider StaffThursday, June 18, 2015, 11:16 am PT (02:16 pm ET)Wearable fitness tracker firm Fitbit, which competes with the Apple Watch with its own hardware, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, and investors promptly drove the company’s share price up by more than 50 percent […]

Fitbit begins trading at $30.40 per share, up 52% from original …

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NEW YORK — This morning Fitbit (FIT) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $30.40 per share. Yesterday the company set its opening price at $20 a share.“Fitbit is at a nexus of technology and health, which are interesting […]

Fitbit begins trading at $30.40 per share, up 52% from IPO price …

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Update at market close: Fitbit closes flat at $29.68 a share.NEW YORK — This morning Fitbit (FIT) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $30.40 per share. Yesterday the company set its opening price at $20 a share.Throughout the […]

Bubble Watch: Biotech Edition

The financial markets have been on the rise for the past six years. That can only mean that doom is around the corner. What financial bubble is waiting to pop, and destroy us? Today: biotech stocks.What Is the Next Bubble, and When Will it Pop? What Is the Next Bubble, and When Will it Pop? What Is the Next Bubble, […]

Bubble Watch: Biotech Edition – Gawker

The financial markets have been on the rise for the past six years. That can only mean that doom is around the corner. What financial bubble is waiting to pop, and destroy us? Today: biotech stocks.What Is the Next Bubble, and When Will it Pop? What Is the Next Bubble, and When Will it Pop? What Is the Next Bubble, […]

Think Tableau is successfully riding the Big Data wave? Tell us …

At the center of the data visualization market is Tableau Software, Inc., a company eager to simplify data consumption for the purpose of making it more accessible to everyday users. As Tableau gears up for its annual conference we look back at its notable developments in the past year, as well as expectations for the upcoming event. One big question […]

Twitter's Big Data crunching 'BotMaker' muscles in on spam …

If you’re an avid Twitter user, you might have noticed a significant drop in the amount of spam messages and tweets bugging you. That’s because Twitter’s introduced a new anti-spam system called BotMaker that’s helped it to achieve a 40 percent reduction in its key spam metrics.Twitter’s Raghav Jeyaraman describes in a lengthy blog post why fighting Twitter spam is […]

There's big bucks in Big Data, but will we be left poorer for it …

There’s big bucks in Big Data, but will we be left poorer for it? Mike Wheatley | August 13thREAD MOREWe see stories about how Big Data’s potential to change the world almost every day, especially where big business is concerned. But few people discussed the negatives it could have, such as its potential to disrupt the academic world in a […]

Where HP Vertica fits in the Big Data continuum | SiliconANGLE

About 60 percent of organizations are in the process of shifting resources from their existing data management investments to Hadoop, according to research from Wikibon.org, while 30 percent intend to begin on the journey by the end of the year. For Chris Selland, a former longtime analyst and current vice president of marketing and business development at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Vertica […]

SiSense, Robin Hood of Big Data, bags $30M to democratize …

Of the hundreds of startups that sprang up in the wake of the data explosion to help organizations bring their vast troves of unstructured information under control, SiSense is among the most convincing. The company, which describes itself as the “Robin Hood” of the business intelligence market on its website, offers a complete analytics package for the enterprise touted as […]