FinTech & Design Reads Issue 7

27 Jun 2014 — By MOD/L team

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Google’s self-driving car isn’t a car, it’s the future Speaking about self-driving cars last September, Elon Musk preached caution. The man who wants to send us all to space and

These 3 startups are using IBM’s Watson supercomputer (as a service) More early-stage companies are signing up for IBM’s fancy Watson supercomputing technology for processing lots of text and then making decisions on the fly. But they’re not rolling in…

Design Is About Intent The most admired companies of each age are often associated with a certain core competency. Ford popularized assembly line manufacturing in the 1910s. Toyota kicked off the lean…

How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts Each line represents an industry and charts its percentage change in employment over the past decade. Industries at the bottom of the chart have lost the most jobs since the recession began.

Speed Up Your Site with Delayed Content Speed remains one of the most important factors influencing the success of any website, and the first rule of performance (according to Yahoo!) is reducing the number of HTTP requests. Over the last…

Great Rotation, Interrupted Joshua M Brown May 25th, 2014 The Great Rotation market meme of early 2013 turned out to have nailed it, perfectly capturing what was happening in the investment business and, by extension, the major…

Make Your Point with Facts and Data Effortlessly Find, Chart and Download 301,284 Economic & Financial Indicators

HelloWallet Acquired by Morningstar in $52.5 Million Deal It’s been a week of exits for Finovate alums. Earlier this week, we reported on the news that Check had been acquired by fintech giant, Intuit. Today we learn that HelloWallet, a Finovate alum from…

Beware The False Promises Of Quant Nirvana Behind New Financial Products Like Kensho I’m going to take a significant amount of heat for something that is rather controversial within the startup community. Many people believe that startup founders and investors should not comment on…

World Beta Blog

KPCB Internet trends 2014

Microsoft hires its own chief economist, from Google Microsoft this morning announced a new position of chief economist inside the company, and named Preston McAfee — most recently Google’s director of strategic…

Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It (Corrects to identify Romania in a map accompanying the story.) The biggest retail hack in U.S. history wasn’t particularly inventive, nor did it appear destined for success. In the days prior…

11 Financial Books Every Young Person Should Read

Fintech: the financial technology frontier is ripe for startups Canary Wharf: the fintech sector offers a great opportunity to any entrepreneur with a good idea. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images A slew of recent reports have highlighted how…

Trading firms OptionsHouse, TradeMonster merging

Quantopian Has $100M in Algorithmic Investing Trading Volume in May, Opens Platform to All Investors

Million Lines of Code Follow us on Twitter Facebook Is a million lines of code a lot? How many lines are there in Windows? Facebook? iPhone apps? » Did we miss any? Let us know. » See the data:…

Nerd Using the :target pseudo-selector for alternative layouts I really like the :target pseudo-selector. It enables you to style the target of a so called skip-link. For instance when you link to a section in an article: you could highlight the header of that…

Announcing Internet Explorer Developer Channel Just a few weeks ago, we talked about creating a more open dialog between the IE team and the Web development community. Today we’re excited to announce the release of the Internet Explorer Developer…



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  • IBM Watson
  • Market Rotation
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