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We track topics for our clients – which means finding documents that match their interests – and one of the hot tech topics is “cloud computing”. We call ourselves a SaaS – software as a service – application. I was interested to see a thought provoking blog post in my daily report today on the [...]
We have a client who is CMO of a large enterprise software company – and he and his team’s use of FirstRain is an excellent example of the power of the web as a database for corporate decision making. In this case we have build a model of the company and it’s ecosystem that includes [...]
Guest post from Keith McCullough CEO/Chief Investment Officer at ResearchEdge I posted on Keith’s interesting new transparency model a few days ago – here’s his thinking on the interaction of your brain and alpha in this bear market. Mathematically speaking, “edge” is often alluded to in the investment community as “alpha”. We like alpha. Our [...]
As we announced today – I’ve joined the board of the non-profit group Investorside. This is a trade association with a mission to “increase investor and pensioner trust in the U.S. capital markets system through the promotion and use of investment research that is financially aligned with investor interests”. The need for a group like [...]
I was struck by the juxtaposition of two articles in the last 24 hours – Thomson Reuters plan to take share from Bloomberg and – NYSE releasing real time quotes to the public. Seemingly unrelated right? Underlying both is a theme of how the ongoing trend to free content is shaping their competitive strategies and [...]
One of the technology capabilities we have in our system is looking for patterns in streams of data coming from the web. We use it to tag events, detect events and as a result pull interesting documents out of the web for our clients. But we’re not alone in this kind of work, obviously. Wired [...]
When we announced our Blog Impact reports earlier this week – where we report on blog traffic and spikes for our users – I talked about how we use a set of algorithms we call FirstRain MarketScore to sort out which ones to include in the statistics at any point in time. This is important [...]
As you can see from our Blog Impact report announcement earlier this week, we’ve been watching blog frequency trends for our clients. I asked my team to do a review of Lehman’s blog stats vs. price and this is what we found. I’m no analyst so I won’t draw a direct correlation – but it [...]
I was delighted to check my blackberry at 4:30am this morning on my way to the airport and see a positive reference on FirstRain on Infectious Greed. Paul Kedrosky has been evaluating the system and he posted to his blog: “I’m trying out the FirstRain markets monitoring service, courtesy of the fine folks there, and [...]
We announced some important new capabilities to our service today: FirstRain Blog Impact Reports and Capital Market Reports. The key breakthrough is that we can now detect spikes in blogs – which are based on normalized trends over time so you can see when there is truly a change in posting volume – and so [...]
