Thursday 17 May 2012

MOBILE INDIANS

In India, sales of Mobile handsets has increased against the global trend of a slowdown according to Gartner. Indians are embracing the smartphone, and the latest technology, with a vengeance. Makers like Samsung and Nokia are doing very well in India. There is still plenty of growth in the Indian market. The 4G mobile phone market is the latest offering in India with the telecoms companies gearing up to try and get consumers to take this up while the 2G scam still lingers on.

Saturday 5 May 2012

ALGORHYTHM - ALGO THIS WAY, YOU GO THAT WAY

Algorithm Trading, where computers using mathematical algorithms put in trade orders in microseconds, is here to stay. Stock markets are now dancing to the beat of algorithms. Mathematicians have become the new masters of the universe, in whose hands the fate of billions of people rests. Faulty algorithms have caused some problems in some exchanges and financial institutions are in search of the Holy Grail - the perfect algorithm.