by George Polzer | Jul 31, 2015 | B2C, Blockchain, Crowd Based/Social, Digital Transformation, News & Trends

The financial system will need to be a platform that federates existing players (such as banks) and new players (such as telecommunication companies… )
1) bitcoin-inspired distributed systems
2) open APIs (application programming interface) as a new way to consumer business services on the internet
3) crowd-sourced identity schemes
4) open source hardware and applications
How can the traditional industry players prepare for such changes?
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by George Polzer | Jul 29, 2015 | Benziga Categories, Stock Screeners
Much like IBM’s Watson, our computers are constantly learning which market relationships have predictive outcomes.
Trade Ideas LLC caters to investors, traders, and market professionals in over 65 countries. Our technology watches the US and Canadian equity markets and feeds of unstructured data – including social media – to uncover more profitable opportunities than any human ever could with the same data.
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by George Polzer | Jul 29, 2015 | Benziga Categories, Crowd Based/Social, Research Tools

Quickly identify trends. Generate innovative trade ideas. And turn the brands you like into a portfolio you’ll love with LikeFolio.
LikeFolio takes the investable companies social media users are talking about, and shows these mentions on a stock chart — making the connection from Twitter to Wall Street.
We analyze all of English-speaking Twitter (~250,000,000
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by George Polzer | Jul 29, 2015 | Benziga Categories, Recommendations

TipRanks is a financial accountability engine. Empowering the individual investor.
It ranks over 7,500 Wall Street analysts and bloggers based on the success of their advice. TipRanks will help you know who’s advice you can trust.
The app is aimed at helping individual investors better assess analysts’ performance before deciding to follow their advice. Users also can search any stock to view the most successful
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by George Polzer | Jul 29, 2015 | Featured Story

We believe that digital transformation is first and foremost a business transformation. People, not technology, are the most important piece in the digital transformation puzzle.
Digitization can extend the reach of organizations, improve management decisions, and speed the development of new products and services. At the same time, the excessively rapid adoption of technologies can disrupt traditional business models. Organizations need to carefully tread the
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