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Consumer behaviour is shaping development of IoT solutions as customer service models change with the use of big data.

Benchmark your likely business success post-recession with this infographic showing the six different types of business model behaviour shown by UK companies in the past 18 months. (Only two are positive...)

Might be of interest to UK businesses in particular.

Lumina Investments, LLC, founded and managed by three North Carolina college students, has opened its first hedge fund that seeks to capitalize on the growing influence of "macro events" on the behaviour of global financial markets.

Researchers at the MIT today revealed the results of research on social trading behaviour within the eToro investment network, that demonstrated higher gains for financial traders that responded to copy trading recommendations. According to MIT researcher Dr. Yaniv Altshuler's research, providing the name of a specific `guru' to copy enabled online traders to uplift earnings by 6-10% compared with trades used without social networks and 4% when compared with unguided copying where copied gurus were selected without the benefit of a specific recommendation. This research suggests that "tuning" social trading networks by providing carefully selected copy recommendations can increase gains and boosts average returns per user, while preventing "bubbles" in the market

Psychologists are often referred to as social, behavioural and cognitive scientists because of the nature of their profession. By studying the role of mental functions in the behaviour of people, and the society as a whole, they are able to know how to deal with issues facing the community today.

Businesses no more run on set models. With rapidly evolving consumer behaviour and market trends, strategic changes have become a business imperative.

Behavioral Investment Management: An Efficient Alternative to Modern Portfolio Theory by Greg B. Davies and Arnaud De Servigny (McGraw-Hill, 2012) "People in standard finance are rational. People in behavioral finance are normal." Meir Statman, PhD, Santa Clara University. The above quote by Meir Statman captures concisely the thrust of the concepts explored extensively in this new book by Greg Davies and Arnaud De Servigny

Developed by an international team of researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Exeter and Münster, the chip contains a network of artificial neurons and synapses that respond to light, rather than electrical inputs. This allows the chip to mimic the behaviour of human neurons and their synapses.