FinTech & Design Reads Issue 10
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The newsonomics of NPR One and the dream of personalized public radio Wouldn’t it be cool if public radio fans could get to all their stuff in one simple app? Stuff from Morning Edition, Fresh Air, Here & Now, All Things Considered — and their local…
Overstock’s Radical Plan to Reinvent the Stock Market With Bitcoin Getty Overstock.com and its swashbuckling CEO, Patrick Byrne, are hoping to create a new kind of corporate stock based on the computer software that drives bitcoin, aiming to overhaul the stock…
Quandl to Distribute Nasdaq OMX Index Data for Free Data portal Quandl forms its first partnership with Nasdaq OMX, providing global indexes to a younger generation of financial analysts.Quandl, the Toronto-based search engine for economic and…
Goldman Is About To Buy A Bloomberg Killer REUTERS/Brendan McDermidTraders work at Bloomberg terminals on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on May 13, 2013.Wall Street firms led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc are close to buying a stake in…
‘Google Glass for Your Windshield’ Keeps Your Eyes on the Road While connected car systems like Apple’s CarPlay aim to be an extension of your smartphone’s display on your car’s dashboard, a new startup is taking an approach that is much more like Google Glass…
Taking Stock of Automated Financial Advisers The Internet has threatened the livelihood of travel agents, video-store clerks and mail carriers. Now high-tech startups are aiming to put another profession on the endangered list: financial…
18 Surprises From Reading jQuery’s Source Code I love jQuery, and though I consider myself an advanced JavaScript developer, I had never read the jQuery source from top to bottom, until now. Here are a few things that I learned along the way:…
How to decide between a responsive website or a native mobile app Many business owners and entrepreneurs struggle with whether they should design a responsive website that works across devices or focus exclusively on building a native mobile app. It’s a…
A Google Chrome Experiment Visualizes The 36-Year Journey Of A Spacecraft In 1978, NASA launched the ISEE-3, a spacecraft designed to study the Earth’s magnetic field and its interactions with solar wind. It would later become the first spacecraft visit a comet….
Where We Came From, State by State These charts were compiled using Census microdata obtained from ipums.org at the University of Minnesota Population Center. The microdata are records containing the characteristics of individuals…
Goldman Expertise Can’t Help Momentum Funds Gain Momentum There are simple exchange-traded fund strategies (“buy gold”) and more-ambitious exchange-traded fund strategies (“dynamically allocate across a basket of assets based on…
Siri’s Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask Viv was named after the Latin root meaning live. Its San Jose, California, offices are decorated with tchotchkes bearing the numbers six and five (VI and V in roman numerals). Ariel Zambelich When…
Chartio’s New Data Pipeline Makes Analyzing And Visualizing Data Easier Chartio, a business intelligence service that lets you explore your data from a wide variety of sources, is launching a new service today that should make getting started with data analysis and…
Chart of the Week: The hype cycle of emerging technologies The 20th edition of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies tracks the rising (and falling) expectations for various emerging technologies. Have you been hearing a lot about “the…
How The Super-Rich Use Data Science To Get Even Richer A little-known analytics company in Silicon Valley with ties to one of the NSA’s favorite tech tools is using big data for an unlikely end: managing the personal finances of the world’s…
PaintCode Update: Read our new Ultimate Guide To iPhone Resolutions! Few days ago, Apple introduced iPhone 6 Plus. The new iPhone substantially changes the way graphics are rendered on screen. We’ve made an…
Three Reasons Apple Pay Is Going To Work A key feature of Apple’s iPhone 6 is the NFC chip which enables a new service called Apple Pay. It’s a service that many consumers have hoped for for years: A way to pay for most anything…
Making Big Data Think Bigger Big-data management promises a significant shift in the way decisions are made across the economy. Abundant new sources of data from the web, sensors and smartphones, mined for patterns and insights…
Third Annual Data Challenge Winners The entries are in, the votes are tallied, and we’ve chosen the winners for our third annual Data Challenge! First Place Our first place winner is Issue Stats (repository), by @hstove. Issue Stats…
The Next Big Thing In Responsive Design Responsive design, which allows designers and developers to build websites that adapt to every screen size, is one of the most empowering web tools to be adopted in the last decade. Responsive…
The Problem With Wearable Technology, According To “Blade Runner” Designer Syd Mead If anyone can call himself a “visual futurist” with a straight face, it’s Syd Mead, the legendary concept artist behind Blade Runner, Tron, and Aliens. I could think of no one better qualified to…
Our Approach to Responsive Web Design MOD/L For Markit On Demand, responsive web design is more than a methodology. It is part of a larger mobile strategy and a philosophy we believe in enabling us to create rich, personalized user experiences…
Innovation Is Job One At Fidelity Labs Fidelity Labs has a long history of investing in technologies ahead of the business case. Sean Belka has taken up the mantle.Sean Belka may carry the title of senior VP of Fidelity Center for Applied…
It’s All About Personalization at TD Ameritrade Veteran financial services CIO Marv Adams is making personalized client experiences the priority at TD Ameritrade.Personalization drives Marv Adams these days. Whether it’s client-facing mobile apps…
Google X Leader Astro Teller Says “Wearables Is Tough” Astro Teller, Google’s so-called “Captain of Moonshots” and leader of the company’s “X” division, wore a turquoise Google Glass device on his face when he…