Reading Tea Leaves on China, Baidu and Burritos
at The Street - Wed Oct 07, 2:30PM CDT
6 things to think about, including GoPro's downgrade and a potential jumping Juniper.
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US judge declines to undo government order on green cards
By GENE JOHNSON - AP - Wed Oct 07, 2:04PM CDT
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge declined to issue an emergency order Wednesday that would allow tens of thousands of highly skilled immigrants to immediately apply to become permanent residents, as the government initially told them they could.
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Google is latest tech giant to claim space in mobile news
By TALI ARBEL - AP - Wed Oct 07, 1:31PM CDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Technology giants including Apple, Facebook, Snapchat and now Google want to take charge of how we get and see news on our phones.
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Will the New Roku 4 Dominate the Holiday Shopping Season?
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Wed Oct 07, 12:55PM CDT
Technology has brought about a sea change in consumption habits and platforms. Therefore, to keep up with the change in digital consumption patterns, Roku has come up with an upgraded digital set top box, Roku 4.
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Big Data as a Service Market by Type of Solutions (Hadoop as a Service, Data as a Service, Data Analytics as a Service) - Global Forecast to 2020
M2 - Wed Oct 07, 9:53AM CDT
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/tnnkt6/big_data_as_a) has announced the addition of the "Big Data as a Service Market by Type of Solutions (Hadoop as a Service, Data as a Service, Data Analytics as a Service) - Global Forecast to 2020" report to their offering. The research report is an extensive study of BDaaS software-based solution on the BDaaS market and the related submarkets within the ecosystem. It is focused to give a bird's eye view of the complete BDaaS software-based solution and integrated service environment. The data is growing at an extremely high pace in terms of volume, velocity, and variety in a gamut of industries. The business organizations operating in large number of industries generate massive chunks of data through data sources, such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, and Supply Chain Management (SCM) system. In such a market scenario, customer-oriented business organizations face numerous technical complexities while collecting, storing, analyzing, visualizing, and reporting the data through interactive dashboards. This requires ensuring high data quality and forming a channelized data flow. The organizations, thus, require state-of-the-art big data solutions to collect, store, analyze, visualize and make future-proof forecasts from the information obtained from enormous data volumes. These kind of concentrated informational insights further help businesses in framing improved strategies and drawing higher Return on Investments (ROIs). Big Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) is basically a cloud-based framework that offers end-to-end big data solutions to business organizations, on-demand. BDaaS is defined as a consolidated structure of Hadoop-as-a-Service (HDaaS), Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), and Data Analytics-as-a-Service. These are also the three type of solutions that are offered in the market by a number of new as well as existing big data vendors. The primary vendors occupying the BDaaS market are Amazon Web Services, EMC Corporation, Google, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, SAP SE, SAS Institute, Inc., and Teradata Corporation. The Big Data as a Service Market research report analyzes the global adoption trends, future growth potentials, key drivers, competitive outlook, restraints, opportunities, key challenges, and the ecosystem in this market. This report also presents a detailed analysis, market sizing, and forecasting for emerging submarkets of the BDaaS market. The report is thoroughly segmented by type of BDaaS solutions, deployment models, organization size, and verticals. The report also focuses on various geographical markets for each of the sub segments within the BDaaS environment. Key Topics Covered: 1 Introduction 2 Research Methodology 3 Executive Summary 4 Premium Insights 5 Market Overview 6 Industry Trends 7 Big Data-As-A-Service Market Analysis, by Type of Solutions 8 Big Data-As-A-Service Market Analysis, by Deployment Model 9 Big Data-As-A-Service Market Analysis, by Organization Size 10 Big Data-As-A-Service Market Analysis, by Vertical 11 Geographic Analysis 12 Competitive Landscape 13 Company Profiles - Amazon Web Services, Inc. (Aws) - Emc Corporation - Google Incorporation (Google) - Hewlett-Packard (HP) - IBM Corporation - Microsoft Corporation - Oracle Corporation - Sap Se - Sas Institute Inc. - Teradata Corporation (Teradata) For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/tn..._data_as_a
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Pure Storage Opens Below $17 IPO Price--Time to Buy?
at The Street - Wed Oct 07, 9:33AM CDT
Pure Storage's IPO isn't exactly the coronation the company and CEO Scott Dietzen may have been expecting. But that could create an opportunity for investors.
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Next Galaxy Near-term Focus to Unlock Long-term Value
ACCESSWIRE - Wed Oct 07, 8:21AM CDT
REDONDO BEACH, CA / ACCESSWIRE / October 7, 2015 / The augmented and virtual reality industry is expected to hit $150 billion by 2020, according to Digi-Capital, who compares the industry to smartphones just before the iPhone. With substantial investments by Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) into Oculus Rift, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) into Magic Leap, and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) into HoloLens, many of the tech giants are preparing for the tipping point of mass consumer adoption.
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Facebook Tweaks News Feed for Weak Network Connections
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Wed Oct 07, 8:10AM CDT
Facebook, Inc. (FB) has taken another initiative to ease the use of social media by people with limited access to Internet (especially in emerging nations).
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Here we go again: Earnings season begins with the 3rd consecutive quarter of negative expectations
ESTMZ - Wed Oct 07, 7:16AM CDT
Earnings season for the third quarter of 2015 unofficially kicks off on Thursday when Alcoa reports. Similar to the last two quarters, we head into the season with negative top and bottom-line growth expectations for the S&P 500… but as anyone...
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Apple Wants Siri to Be More Like Google Now
at The Street - Wed Oct 07, 6:03AM CDT
Apple's continued foray into artificial intelligence likely means more suggested services are coming.
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Samsung 3Q operating profit surges, shares jump 9 percent
By YOUKYUNG LEE - AP - Wed Oct 07, 2:49AM CDT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics announced a forecast-beating profit for the third quarter Wednesday, sending its share price up nearly 9 percent, but analysts said strong component sales and favorable currency exchange rates masked persistent weakness in its smartphone business.
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3D Systems-Penn State to Aid 3D Printing Advancement
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Tue Oct 06, 5:22PM CDT
3D Systems Corporation (DDD) joined hands with the Pennsylvania State University to aid the adoption of Direct Metal Printing ('DMP'
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Microsoft Unveils First Laptop, Twitter Turns to Moments: Tech Winners & Losers
at The Street - Tue Oct 06, 5:20PM CDT
Microsoft dove deeper into the hardware business with its first laptop, the Surface Book, while Twitter launched curated groups of tweets called 'Moments' to help revive growth.
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Bigger Market Picture Doesn't Look That Great
at The Street - Tue Oct 06, 3:10PM CDT
We're still stuck in a trading range.
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Competition for Microsoft lineup, which targets high end
By ANICK JESDANUN - AP - Tue Oct 06, 2:46PM CDT
NEW YORK (AP) — The success of Microsoft's fall lineup of devices will ride on the company's ability to convince people who got free Windows 10 software upgrades this summer to spring for new devices — specifically, Windows devices.
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The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store
By The Associated Press - AP - Tue Oct 06, 2:21PM CDT
App Store Official Charts for the week ending October 5, 2015:
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European data sharing pact with US ruled invalid
By PAN PYLAS - AP - Tue Oct 06, 1:30PM CDT
LUXEMBOURG (AP) — Facebook and thousands of other companies could find it vastly more complicated to do business in Europe after a court ruled that personal data sent to U.S. servers is potentially unsafe from government spying.
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11 Companies to Invest In If You Are Optimistic About Driverless Cars
at The Street - Tue Oct 06, 1:13PM CDT
More than two dozen companies have driverless car plans, according to CB Insights. Here's the 11 retail companies where U.S. investors can take advantage.
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Tesla Shares Are Headed for a Big Selloff
at The Street - Tue Oct 06, 11:57AM CDT
Forget about how cool Tesla's (TSLA) cars are. Calm, cool technical analysis shows Tesla shares are headed lower and that investors should sell this stock.
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Behind Every Silver Lining, There's a Cloud
at The Street - Tue Oct 06, 11:45AM CDT
Market bulls have jumped the gun on their optimism.
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