US investors powered the S&P 500 to an all-time high Thursday, one day after Washington politicians reached a deal to reopen the government and avert a feared debt default. The S&P 500, the broadest of the major measures of US markets, closed at 1,733…
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Algorithmic trading is changing the way the stock market game is played, as human reaction times are no longer fast enough to keep up with machines that can make nearly instantaneous decisions about stock trades. A human chess grandmaster takes about…
On August 30, 2013Shares of cloud computing giant Salesforce are up more than 13 percent in early trading today following better than expected Q2 earnings report released after the markets closed yesterday. The company closed trading yesterday at $…
Whether you love them or not, electric cars are one of the hot cleantech consumer products that incite people to take notice and make their thoughts known. People comment about electric vehicles a lot. They are green chic. Come on, who does not want…
On October 2, 2013Apple has hired cable television industry veteran Jean-François Mulé as the engineering director of an undisclosed project. The move only further stokes rumors of the long-rumored Apple TV and the company’s plans to disrupt the…
On October 2, 2013Retail retail analytics and intelligence startup Quri has raised $10 million in a Series B round led by Matrix Partners with participation from return investors Catamount Ventures and Simon Equity Partners. Matrix general parner…
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On August 30, 2013Marketo, which went public in May and has seen its share price rise from $13 to more than $37 in the three months since, announced plans to offer 6 million shares in a public secondary offering. Just 10 percent of those shares will…
Hundreds of thousands of people have already applied for a one-way ticket to Mars for the Mars One program to establish a human colony on the red planet by 2023. Funding for Mars One is expected to come from a reality TV show as well as sponsorships…
