KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 (Bernama) -- Bursa Malaysia closed almost flat on Tuesday as buying interest rotated away from index heavyweights towards smaller-cap construction stocks, with sentiment affected by geopolitical uncertainty, said an analyst. At 5 pm, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) eased 0.39 of a point to 1,714.40 from Monday’s close of 1,714.79. The benchmark index opened 1.65 points lower at 1,713.14 and moved between 1,710.44 and 1,714.50 throughout the trading session. The broader market was almost evenly balanced, with decliners leading gainers 548 to 546, while 598 counters were unchanged, 1,107 were untraded and 25 were suspended. Turnover expanded to 4.13 billion units valued at RM3.14 billion from 3.60 billion units valued at RM2.45 billion on Monday.
If you think Microsoft's new CEO is making another bold statement without action, think again. Microsoft's new CEO, Satya Nadella is serious about cloud computing and he has a strategy. A supposedly comprehensive predictive analysis service — and all you have to do is store your data in Azure, the Microsoft cloud. The service will be known as Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (ML) was announced on Monday but will only be available in June. This is the first time where Microsoft combines their very own software with publicly available open source software, so that it's much more easier for usage than most of the available arcane strategies that are available now. Machine Learning - fixing today's problem yesterday The VP for ML at Microsoft proudly said, "This is drag-and-drop software." This is a big step forward in popularizing what is currently a difficult process in increasingly high demand. It would also further the ambitions of Sa...