A copyright lawsuit has finally stopped the crazy stock market streak …

A copyright lawsuit has finally stopped the crazy stock market streak of Beijing Baofeng Technology – Quartz

For whom the bell tolls.(Reuters/Stringer)
SHAREWritten bySteve MollmanObsessionChina’s TransitionMay 15, 2015It had to end eventually. News of a copyright dispute has broken the breathtaking post-IPO rise (paywall) in the share price of Beijing Baofeng Technology, which offers online videos, a media player, and a low-price […]

Does Putin Care About Russia's Stock Market at All? – 24/7 Wall St.

Vladimir Putin’s decision to try to seize Crimea from Ukraine may make nationalists happy, but investors — Russian or otherwise — are getting clobbered. Russian stocks have been in a tailspin since mid-February with the Micex — the benchmark index of the Moscow Stock Exchange — falling nearly 17% since then. It was off nearly 2% on Thursday after opening […]

Irving: Big Data Can Save the Planet (or at least its inhabitants …

Yes, we have heard it all before.  A new information technology comes along and it is lauded as a sure fire tool for solving intractable societal problems.  We heard it with radio, computers and the Internet.  And now the buzz is all about Big Data.  The thing is, this time it could be true.Big Data (the collection and analysis of […]