Online Brokerages See Spike In Web Traffic

Smartphones and tablets combined for 48% of time spent on the Internet in the U.S during February. according to comScore.  

The world is constantly reporting on itself, whether it's through SEC filings, blog posts, or Twitter.  Nate Silver already has a grasp on this by using big data, but what about everyone else?

The world is constantly reporting on itself, whether it's through SEC filings, blog posts, or Twitter.  Nate Silver already has a grasp on this by using big data, but what about everyone else?

The misery index, a crude economic measure created by Arthur Orkum, sums a country's unemployment and inflation rates to assess conditions on the ground (the higher the number, the more miserable a country is).  The reasoning: most citizens understand the pain of a high jobless rate and the soaring price of goods.

On Tuesday (April 23), a tweet from a hacked Associated Press account claiming there had been explosions at the White House sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeting 145 points almost instantaneously. The incident was an example of how quickly the Internet can send shock waves through the financial world, given how many trades are completed by computers rather than humans.

Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog, We’ve discussed many times before - hardly a month goes by without some major action against Internet users... from Obama’s ‘kill switch’, to ACTA, SOPA and PIPA, to stasi tactics against people like Kim Dotcom. Online privacy is becoming more important by the day. And nobody is going to give it to you, you have to take steps yourself to secure it.

By Contextuall:By now everyone's heard of the predictive potential of Twitter mood states, and the "Twitter trading system" theme has been flogged to death. So, for this article, we wanted to shift focus to another online data source…