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Biotech Stocks to Love: Biogen Inc (NASDAQ:BIIB), OncoGenex …

Many individual investors have opted to invest in biotech ETFs and mutual funds. The XBI and SBIO funds have performed well because they focus more on small and mid-sized biotech companies. The IBB, which has emerged as something of a proxy for the industry for many investors, is weighted much more heavily to bigger, more proven biotech companies.The volatility of […]

Short Interest in Solar Stocks Explodes In May – SolarEdge …

Related SEDGShort Interest In Solar Stocks Continues To DwindleMorning Market GainersRelated SPWRSolar Stocks In Focus Following Strong Q1 Report From Trina SolarThe Brewing ‘YieldCo Party’ In The Solar IndustryZacks Industry Outlook Highlights: SunPower, First Solar, SunEdison and SolarCity – Press Releases(Zacks)The overall dwindling short interest in the leading U.S. solar-related stocks came to end in the first two weeks of […]

GoDaddy opens at $26.15 on first day of trading, up 31% from IPO …

Hosting and web domain-registration company GoDaddy made its debut today on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GDDY, with shares becoming available at $26.15, up about 30.8 percent from the $20 price at which the company sold shares for its initial public offering.The debut price is also higher than the $17-19 range that GoDaddy set for its stock shares two […]

The Daily Startup: Allergen Research Raises $80M to Fight Peanut Allergies

Art by Mike LucasAllergen Research has raised $80 million to help tackle the problem of peanut allergies, Brian Gormley reports for Dow Jones VentureWire. The company is developing a  product that desensitizes patients so that accidental exposure to peanuts doesn’t cause a severe allergic response. Peanut allergy is one of the most common of food allergies, which affect 5% of children and 4% […]

3 Biotech Stocks to Buy in February

When it comes to figuring out the best stocks to buy in any given month or year, crystal balls can be hazy, but our top Motley Fool contributors have scoured SEC filings, read industry trade journals, and crunched numbers to uncover three biotech stocks that they think could be among the top stocks to buy in February.Source: BioMarin.: The road […]

Companies Not Embracing 'Big Data' – Business Insider

For years, big data has been one of the hottest buzzwords across all industries.Big data is the term used to describe the process of analyzing complex set of data sets to discover information that could help make better decisions or find certain patterns that were previously unknown.For example, Amazon is able to recommend products based on your previous buying patterns. […]

If You Think Big Data's Big Now, Just Wait | TechCrunch

We’ve been hearing a great deal about the power of Big Data over the last couple of years. The hype says that as we gather more data, we will be able to get better answers to business problems, but the data levels we have seen so far could pale in comparison to what happens when we start adding sensors to the world. […]

Using Big Data to Optimize Business Operations

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ASCO Power TechnologiesBhavesh Patel is Director of Marketing and Customer Support at ASCO Power Technologies, Florham Park, NJ, a business of Emerson Network Power.Business – and life in general – is becoming data-centric. In order to uphold reliability and preserve reputation, a data center must maintain an unimpeded flow of data at a level not […]

The Stock Market: Now With 100% More Lasers, Strictly for …

If you needed any more evidence that the pace of the stock exchange is blinding, traders on the cutting edge of technology are now making use of military communications lasers to transmit data, because fiber optics and microwaves are just too darn slow. Just nobody tell them light is faster in a vacuum, OK? I like having air to breathe.The laser […]

How does Big Data help us understand the vastness of space? Ask …

SMembers of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab’s Data Science community — including Rob Witoff, Tomas Soderstrom, and Andrew Hart — are here to answer our questions about using data, visualization, modeling, and just what we might be able to do with it all in space.Top image: A visualization from the IT data science team analyzing education & diplomas across JPL. The […]