On the first day that Radiohead's latest became available, around 240, 000 users downloaded the album from copyright-infringing peer-to-peer BitTorrent sources, according to Big Champagne, a Los-Angeles-based company that tracks illegal downloading on the Internet.
Because according to a big poll in Pakistan, inside Pakistan, according to Pakistani press, number-one enemy in Pakistan, according to the people of Pakistan, is not India but the United States?
For example, according to the Big Mac index, sterling is overvalued by 26% against the dollar and by 13% against the euro.
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According to KPMG big data is the ultimate challenge because of the volume and the ultimate opportunity because it can lead to better decision making.
The Chinese yuan has been undervalued for the past few years according to the Big Mac Index, but it has now improved to become fairly valued.
The Australian dollar might be undervalued according to your Big Mac index, but at least when you have one you know it is the genuine article.
They're also big hits online, according to online media measurement firms Big Champagne and Hitwise, which measure the most swapped shows on BitTorrent networks and the most searched programs on the Internet, respectively.
The financial crisis of 2008 shined a bright light on the behavior of large financial institutions, which had become too complex to regulate, too clumsy to manage and, according to the government, too big to fail.
According to the first big poll on the issue carried out in Chile since General Pinochet's arrest in London, almost two-thirds of respondents believe that he did indeed commit crimes during his 17-year dictatorship.
Angel investors and incubators do not provide enough assistance and do not encourage startups to think big enough, according to famed venture capitalist Vinod Khosla.
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According to market research firm Big Champagne, there were on average 8.7 million simultaneous users on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks in May of this year.
According to Petersen, Sense Networks applies big science to mobile location data for predictive analytics in advertising.
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Issues with running water, scarce electricity and more contributed to headaches big and small, according to passengers and their loved ones.
They are the least likely to export out of 15 big economies, according to the National Association of Manufacturers, a trade group.
Apple has signed a cloud-music licensing agreement with EMI Music and is close to inking similar deals with other big labels, according to CNET.
Between 2006 and 2010, according to official targets, emissions of big industrial pollutants are supposed to drop by 10%, and energy efficiency is supposed to rise sharply in the same period.
These have widened by up to 300% thanks to spiking volatility and the retreat of several big rivals, according to a study by Morgan Stanley and Oliver Wyman, a consultancy.
First, world trade volume is expected to expand by 2.5% in 2012, down from the 14% growth in 2010, according to The World Trade Organization a big threat to the profitability of U.S. exporters.
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If France, Germany and nine other states press ahead with a tax based on the commission's expansive proposal, it is likely to be challenged by some EU governments and big financial groups, according to several diplomats and lawyers.
According to Edsor, being old is a big plus, but it's best to be old from certain periods, notably the 18th-century French.
Even Pimco , now owned by Allianz, could be looking to reap a big premium in a sale, according to Geoff Bobroff, a consultant in East Greenwich, R.
Even Pimco , now owned by Allianz (nyse: AZ - news - people ), could be looking to reap a big premium in a sale, according to Geoff Bobroff, a consultant in East Greenwich, R.
According to a report by Next Big Sound, the big winner was Bruno Mars.
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And medical researchers could aggregate cancer data, helping to find new treatments, according to an SAP-sponsored Big Data report by Washington D.
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According to the Halifax, a big mortgage lender, house prices rose by 13.6% in the year to December, the fastest increase since the late 1980s boom.
According to its own study, Big Blue left 29% of its critical software flaws from the last six months without a fix, more than any of the other nine companies it measured.
At least according to online media measurement firm Big Champagne, which found that the year's most-swapped content online--be it TV programs, movies or music--is also among the most popular in its respective offline formats.
Last year activity tripled on streaming network Soundcloud, while the average artist on YouTube received nearly 25, 000 views per month and 300, 000 on the major label-oriented VEVO, according to music data provider Next Big Sound.
According to Dr McMahon, a big part of the problem is that both species can survive out of the water for several days, so transporting a boat overland from one river basin to another, a common practice in North America, will not necessarily kill them.
The going annualized interest rate paid by those who borrowed shares in the social networking company was anywhere from 10% to 40% on the amount borrowed on Friday, compared with 0.25% to 0.5% for the typical big-company stock, according to Robert Sloan, managing partner of S3 Partners, a New York firm that advises hedge funds on counterparty risk and financing of trade.
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