More China data is coming out on Friday, including fixed asset investment and retail sales.
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And that data is coming at firms in an ever increasing array of formats making integration and customer insight increasingly difficult.
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The vision for big data integration is coming to life in a series of steps.
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There is key economic data coming out of the EU on Thursday, as gross domestic product data is released by the major EU countries.
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There is key economic data coming out of the EU on Thursday, as gross domestic product data is released by the major EU countries and the Euro zone as a whole.
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There is key economic data coming out of the EU later this week, as gross domestic product data is released by the major EU countries.
Full trial data on both drugs is coming at a big meeting of liver specialists next month.
These provide critical data that could help scientists predict what is coming in the next flu season.
There is more data on the manufacturing sector coming Thursday with the Empire State Manufacturing Survey and Philadelphia Fed Survey.
"While the broad picture emerging from the data is that Africa's economies have been expanding robustly and that poverty is coming down, the aggregate hides a great deal of diversity in performance, even among Africa's faster growers, " said Shanta Devarajan, the World Bank's chief economist for Africa.
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There is a slew of fresh economic data coming out of China on Thursday.
The market place is still tentative and here are the important overnight developments: There was more weak economic data coming out of the European Union overnight, which continues to suggest that bloc is teetering on collective economic recession.
German bunds also rallied Friday on the generally downbeat data coming out of the EU. There is also uncertainty among European investors regarding the upcoming Italian elections that begin this weekend.
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"Usually with a standard attack malware writers will try to limit the amount of data coming off the machine because otherwise it is very hard to find what you are looking for, " she said.
More challenging is increasing data protection amid the surge in malicious attacks coming from inside and outside the organization.
Recent economic data coming from China has been upbeat, which is an underlying bullish factor for most markets, including the raw commodities.
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Listen to it carefully, understand what is said between the lines, match that to what the data says, and one can pretty much anticipate what is coming for a quarter.
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There was further evidence Friday that global economy is slowing, with Chinese and European manufacturing data coming in lower than expected and the eurozone unemployment rate rose to the highest level since the euro currency was created, with the 17-nation jobless rate at 11%.
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Another challenge is to create analytics that can use the the data coming from the visibility stage in real time.
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"What you'll see is a much richer involvement of data (and) information coming to you on the Internet, " said Craig Barrett, Intel's chief executive officer.
The convergence of mobile internet, smartphones, the digital and physical world is likely to generate hundreds of times more data in the coming years, which presents tremendous challenges as well as unprecedented opportunities for development of the ICT industry.
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Some U.S. economic data this week was more upbeat, and some surprising economic strength is coming out of Japan.
And there was also very weak economic data coming out of the EU Monday that suggests the EU is mired in a recession.
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And I learned an important early lesson of the coming digital age: once your data exists, it is in the system, and the people who control the system can see it.
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In the meantime, the U.S. Department of Education is set to release "gainful employment" data as soon as this coming week, including loan-repayment rates and debt-to-income ratios.
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While we find this new commentary interesting, we await more confirming data points from other supply chain contacts before fully believing a new iPad device is coming in 2011.
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Now that the Greek parliament has passed the very unpopular austerity measures the world market place is looking at other matters, such as some recent better economic data coming out of Japan earlier this week and some slightly better U.S. economic data Thursday.
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The greenback is likely to see more selling pressure in the near term amid better economic data coming out of the European Union at the same time weak data comes out of the U.S. There are now notions the European Central Bank will raise interest rates soon, which would be another bearish blow to the U.S. dollar index and boost for the Euro currency.
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