In trading on Tuesday, auto dealerships shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2.3%. Leading the group were shares of Midas Group (MDS), up about 27.3% and shares of Travelcenters America (TA) up about 2.5% on the day. Also showing relative strength are construction materials & machinery shares, up on the day ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 18:54

In trading on Tuesday, general contractors & builders shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 4%.?? Leading the group were shares of M/I Homes (MHO), up about 7.5% and shares of Pultegroup (PHM) up about 5.7% on the day. Also showing relative strength are construction materials & machinery shares, up on the ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 18:56

A structured decision approach???agreeing on criteria, facts, alternatives, commitment and closure???should help you eliminate many dysfunctional decision practices and establish more fruitful ones. But companies often find that they also need enablers???practical methods for oiling the decision-making machinery. We have found that the following four enablers are all remarkably powerful in their effects. Set decisions ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 14:23

The amount of data is growing at tremendous speed - inside and outside of companies' firewalls. Last year we did hit approximately 1 zettabyte (one trillion gigabyte) of data in the public web and the speed by which new data is created continues to accelerate, including unstructured data in the form of text, semi-structured data ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 20:54

Price to book and price to sales both show the company trading at a discount to the industry average.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 20:26

Tweek, the German startup behind the eponymous iPad social TV app launched from closed beta at the London Web Summit Monday, are applying their talents to television at an interesting time. According to Clay Shirky?s book??Cognitive Surplus, around 200 billion hours is spent watching TV in the United States alone. These hours are, according to ...

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 23:25

? This weekend over 60 contenders will rev it out at the 60th running of the Twelve Hours of Sebring. If you've never sat through an endurance race, then please be sure to add it to your bucket list. Sebring is a battleground for the FIA World Endurance Championship and the American Le Mans Series ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 20:55

Twitter this afternoon disclosed in a blog post that it has acquired the blogging site Posterous. Twitter said that the Posterous site will continue up and running without any interruption. Terms were not disclosed. Here is the text of Twitter?s post on the deal: Today we are welcoming a very talented group from Posterous to ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 00:23

Celebrating its sixth birthday yesterday, Twitter revealed that it now has 140 million users generating a collective 340 million posts a day. That's a lot of data with a lot of patterns hidden in it, just waiting to be teased out. Does one of those patterns hold the key to predicting movement in stock prices? It appears so, according to a study published this week by researchers at the University of California, Riverside.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

It took awhile, but Twitter today formally launched its self-service ad platform for small businesses. It?s the service?s answer to ?s AdWords, the automated ad system that catapulted the search engine into the most powerful company in online advertising. Here?s the video promo: Few people expect Twitter?s business to match ?s incomparable business, exactly. But ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 22:56