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Amazon aims for financial services with public cloud services
Before founding Amazon, CEO Jeff Bezos was a young Princeton graduate working at in the hedge fund industry. At D.E. Shaw & Co., he reportedly made $1 million a year and he has not forgotten his
Ex-Citadel engineer arrested on code theft charges
We would certainly hope that young code-jockeys at financial services firms, newly flush with fat salaries and perhaps high on their own ambitions, would understand that they cannot play fast and
Doubts on Twitter feeds as market indicators
The idea that sentiment indicators based on Tweets can accurately predict the market has been galvanizing, to say the least. Yet despite some academic evidence that this is the case, there are plenty
Free service offers sentiment indicators from Twitter
The investing world continues to be fascinated by Twitter and the extent to which it can generate advice that can be put to use in a trading environment. We've noted the rise of at least one hedge
Centigage pushes financial social media movement forward
The rise of the social media as an investing tool is either an indicator that social mania is reaching a top, or one of a truly profound movement that will deeply affect the financial world. Of
Commentary: social media expertise doesn't exist
It's fair to say that lots of banks and financial institutions are experimenting with social media. In some cases, it hasn't gone all that well.High quality blogs, for example, are hard to
Banks embrace social media monitoring and analytics
Banks and financial services firms are embracing social media in surprising ways. At least one hedge fund has been formed around the idea that Tweets can be monitored and analyzed in real time to
Man vs. Machines: Cliff Asness
In the world of quantitative trading, Cliff Asness might be considered one of the original gangsters, a pioneer of the quants. The Atlantic offers a nice profile of the founder of Applied
Program trading makes a comeback
Recall that way back in 1987, program trading and the idea of portfolio insurance were blamed by some critics for exacerbating a historic stock market plunge. After that, the technique was eclipsed
Watson to storm Wall Street
IBM's Watson launched itself from techno-obscurity to worldwide fame when it beat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two top Jeopardy champions, in a highly publicized match that riveted technophiles and
