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Datawatch surges after insider buys up stock

Datawatch Corp. of Chelmsford sells solutions for real-time data analytics and visualization.Reuters/File 2014

Datawatch Corp.’s stock surged after the Chelmsford company said it had joined the International Internet Consortium and news surfaced that chief financial officer James Eliason had purchased another 8,500 shares of Datawatch. He now owns 92,800 shares, valued at about $1.25 million. George Soros, the billionaire investor, took a stake in the company in the first quarter of this year, according to the financial website ValueWalk.com.