Social bookmarking innovator Pinterest, announced on Tuesday, the deployment of a free analytics dashboard that is tailor made for advertisers across the globe. Jason Costa who is a product manager at Pinterest, told Mashable recently, “We’re pretty excited about this because it’s actually our first global business tool launch that

Four months ago, Dataconomy reported a funding story on Context Relevant, a predictive analytics company that managed to raise $28 million in funding within just 28 months. The success stories relating to the company, however, continue to pour in as it was revealed yesterday that the predictive analytics firm has

Datanyze, the sales prospecting tool powered by technology data, grabbed $2 million in seed funding round on Tuesday. The round was led by investors like IDG Ventures and saw others like AngelList, Neeraj Agrawal, Google Ventures, and Mark Cuban. “Datanyze enables salespeople to uncover not only who is using a

Hilary Mason is something of a pioneer among data scientists and Big Data enthusiasts. And when she talks about Big Data one would do good to listen. Mason spoke to Wall Street Journal earlier this week, making her doubts clear regarding Big Data. “What predictive algorithms are actually really good

Big Data marches towards more imminent expansion this time as Chinese web services outfit Baidu announces that it is working in tandem with The United Nations Development Programme to build a big data lab together. The agenda includes exploring solutions to global issues such as environmental protection, health, education, and

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), the leading platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced that it has been rated ‘Big Data Leader 2015’ in five of the benchmark categories in the Experton Group ‘Big Data Vendor Benchmark 2015’ report. The analyst firm, a fully integrated research, advisory and consulting house for

Amazon is raring to take on Google’s AdWords with its new ad placement platform called Amazon Sponsored Links. In a move that clearly hints at Amazon’s intent to reduce Google’s online advertising monopoly, the online retailer will begin testing the new placement platform later this year, according to some reports,

Premier photo-sharing company, Instagram just released a string of advert-analytic tools with the aim to enable brands monitor the performance of their “paid and organic” content on Instagram. The suite consists of three analytical tools: 1) account insights – which enables enterprises monitor brand awareness on Instagram through impressions, reach, and

TIBCO Software Inc today announced that TIBCO Jaspersoft®, the “Intelligence Inside” applications and business processes, and Artha Solutions, a leading provider of business, technology, strategy consulting and implementations, have launched joint analytic applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in investment management and retail industries can use

Microsoft’s latest offering on Windows Azure is the non-relational DocumentDB – a fully managed NoSQL document database, and a search tool that Azure-based developers can utilise in their applications. Director of product marketing at Microsoft Azure, Vibhor Kapoor wrote, “Azure DocumentDB is a managed NoSQL document database-as-a-service that provides the