This data can provide insight into sales and sales by square foot estimates (including traffic by individual location), separate store and parking lot traffic, dwell times, and allows for forecasting.
The company develops geospatial data analytics to help its clients unlock societal and economic trends at a global scale.
Geo-location data was used to anticipate disappointing sales at RadioShack stores.
The provider transforms real-time locations from mobile phones across the globe into objective and actionable insights on the performance of businesses, markets, and economies.
We arranged this interview with a provider of geolocation data to learn more about potential applications. The company is connecting real-world signals, from sensors to location data at scale, in one platform.
We arranged this interview with a provider of in-store and street-level location data to learn more about potential applications.
Traditionally considered a relatively safe investment, recent municipal bankruptcies and defaults have resulted in the restructurings of bond obligations. Losses on the part of bondholders have caused investors to re-assess the risk profile of municipal issuers.
The attached paper titled 'What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-Announcement Returns?' was prepared by Kenneth Froot (Harvard University), Gideon Ozik (EDHEC-Risk Institute), Namho Kang (University of Connecticut) and Ronnie Sadka (Boston College).
Foursquare predicts the overall 2016 Black Friday foot traffic to be 3.5% down compared to 2015.
Card spend on new houses increased across all Tier cities in September 2016, according to Eagle Alpha’s Chinese credit card data partner.
Jeff Glueck, Foursquare's CEO, published an analysis of the American theme park market using the company's foot traffic data: "We took a look at our data set, which covers both explicit “check-ins” and passive location trails from users who have opted-in to background location use.
Orbital Insight announced its $15M Series B funding round led by Alphabet Inc.’s GV (formerly Google Ventures) with CME Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, and Bloomberg Beta participating. The agreement and investment from In-Q-Tel (IQT) brought the total to $20M.
