Seven financial tech startups for the 2015 FinTech Innovation Lab London have been shortlisted, and the portfolio ranges from ‘web-based programs assessing real-time geopolitical risks,’ to ‘faster data exchange and reconciliation solutions.” The seven entrepreneurial efforts have been selected to participate in this year’s FinTech Innovation Lab London, where it

Big data analytics startup Metanautix has been making some heads turn with its flagship product, the Metanautix Quest Data Compute Engine. The product, launched last year at the Tableau Conference, promises to simplify data supply chain, essentially by representing disparate data of any type as relational tables within Quest, compatible

Data Analytics has found its way into the US education system where data silos containing performance data of former students are being analysed to predict the outcomes of current ones. According to a Time report approximately 125 schools around the U.S. have been collating and sifting through years of data

Wit.ai, the Y Combinator startup, that has been working on an open and extensible natural language platform all the while helping developers to build applications and devices that turns speech into actionable data, announced earlier this week, its acquisition by Facebook. “It is an incredible acceleration in the execution of

Chris Neumann stands at the forefront of the fastest moving technology industry trend: Cloud BI. He’s spent the past three years evangelizing an industry-wide shift to the cloud and has helped position DataHero as the first truly freemium BI platform in the cloud space. A calculated risk-taker with deep tech

Following a Reuters reveal on new year’s eve regarding the Chinese telecom equipment and smartphone manufacturer Huawei’s  smartphone sales going up a third to $11.8 billion in 2014, company chief, Ken Hu offered a public enunciation of the company’s growing revenue and portfolio. “In 2014, the ICT industry grew tremendously

The American IT products manufacturer for the enterprise, Compuware’s latest offering, dubbed Topaz was released earlier this week to help IT engineers at large businesses handle transactional data within mainframes. “Having a new-age workforce being confident in these applications and actually modifying them to better meet their requirements in analytics

Data management innovator Asystec, has entered into a joint venture with networking solutions provider Cisco in order to combine their “unique methodology and expertise in Data Analytics while Cisco delivers infrastructure and experience to provide a complete Big Data solution.” “Corporate partnerships are fueling the growth of the world’s most

Inovalon, Inc., the Bowie, Maryland located cloud-based analytics and Big Data tech provider for healthcare had filed for an initial public offering on the 30th of last month, according to SEC filing, thus becoming the first healthcare technology IPO of 2015. Inovalon is seeking $500M in an initial public offering,

Enterprise Apache Hadoop providers Hortonworks revealed earlier last month the expansion of the Hortonworks Certified Technology Program to include certification for ‘key capabilities of operations, security and governance focused tools and applications supporting the growth of enterprise Hadoop and ecosystem integration. This comes as a followup to the introduction of