This year, Venture Alpha West 2014, saw Paypal co-founder and entrepreneur-investor, Peter Thiel, speak briefly about his bestseller Zero to ...

Spectorsoft, a computer monitoring and analysis tools developer announced on Tuesday a connector for Splunk Enterprise - a platform for ...

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AT&T disclosed earlier this week that it is the latest company to have been subject to a data breach. An ...

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have devised an algorithm that can determine facts like "which ...

Timeful, the “intelligent time manager” app, has appointed LinkedIn's former Senior Manager of Data Science, Gloria Lau, to fill the ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation wants to tap the benefits "Big Data". But even with rapidly advancing technical prowess, there ...

The raft of expectations and requirements of new big data tech coming to market continues to grow and grow. They've ...

This post is inspired by the “metacademy” suggestions for “leveling up your machine learning.” They make some halfway decent suggestions ...

Larry Ellison, CTO and Executive Chairman for Oracle, revealed Oracle's cloud plans in last week's OpenWorld show and simply put, ...

There has been some rumble lately owing to Tesla Chief, Elon Musk's Twitter post on Oct. 1 about the impending ...

In a major impetus to its Global outreach and Intuitive Analytics Platform development strategy, data blending outfit Alteryx has procured ...

Consumer electronics firm Apple hit the headlines recently with the launch of high-profile products like the iPhone 6 at its ...

The National Institutes of Health now allows semantic searches of health data repository Medline in a move which could fuel ...

Facebook has finally received the nod from the European Commission that has been assessing the $19 billion acquisition of messaging ...

JP Morgan Chase, one of USA’s largest banks, has disclosed the scope of the massive data breach that the firm ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has selected fourteen Moore Investigators who will receive $1.5 million each, over the next ...

Cloud computing and text mining innovator, AlchemyAPI has released its Face Detection and Recognition API, the latest offering in the ...

The world’s forests are being destroyed at the rate of 50 football fields every minute. Deforestation is a leading factor, ...

A recent study carried out by Vanson Bourne for online security outfit Sophos looked into end-users behaviour towards security and ...

GoodData, a Cloud based Business Intelligence startup, has landed $25.7 million in Series E funding on Thursday led by Intel ...

U.S. department store Macy's is fusing Apple's iBeacon technology with Shopkick to identify shoppers' locations and provide them with ads ...

IT and business consulting giant, Infosys, has conceived a strategic alliance with the Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford ...

Online security and privacy startup, ZenMate has landed £2 million ($3.2 million) in Series-A funding round. The round was led ...

Enterprise Hadoop experts Cloudera have acquired business intelligence and data visualization innovator DataPad. It has been speculated that the acquisition ...

I recently helped out at an access initiative for Oxford University, and the experience got me thinking about how we ...

A German Privacy regulator has shed light on the possibility that Google is in violation of the German Federal Telemedia ...

Credit Karma, a Web-based consumer finance and technology startup, procured $75 million in an add-on growth round of funding. Participation ...

Leading managed services provider, IPsoft has developed an artificial intelligence platform called “Amelia” built essentially to “automate knowledge work across ...

LinkedIn has rolled out its very own web-scale real-time analytics engine, dubbed Pinot. Designed and built at LinkedIn, Pinot will ...

In the latest installment of our expert interviews about the future of the Internet of Things, we discuss the promise ...

It appears that the data fabric is rising to eminence. Last week, Gridgain unveiled their signature data fabric; now, Continuent ...

Ecommerce analytics startup Qubit has secured $26 million in Series B funding on Monday, with Accel Partners leading the round. ...

On Monday, it was announced that Oracle will introduce two new data centers in Germany with colocation partners Interxion and ...

Facebook has launched the completely reduxed and rebuilt ad platform, called Atlas, that will deliver people-based marketing, helping marketers reach ...

Texas-based tech startup Vysk Communications has developed an “Everyday Privacy Case” (EP1), which uses a combination of hardware and software ...

Target can tell when its shoppers are pregnant. Facebook conducts social experiments on us to see if we are emotionally ...

Data management specialists Peaxy have made their signature product, the Peaxy Hyperfiler generally available today. The general principle behind the ...

I'm Alexandre Passant, and I'm co-founder of Music & Data Geeks. We're a music-tech company based in Dogpatch Labs Dublin, ...

Experts in the U.S. state of New Jersey believe that the conception of data sources and the resultant deluge of ...

Utility Consumption Analytics outfit, Verdafero, has announced the utilization of IBM's open cloud platform, Bluemix to power its analytics platform. ...

In the latest, of a string of bad-blood situations between Google and EU authorities, European data protection wing, known as ...

U.S. sandwich restaurant chain Jimmy John’s reported last week of a possible theft of its customers’ credit and debit card ...

More funding rounds, announcements and big data articles this week -- and it's just as good as ever! The week ...

My first article on “How To Become A Data Scientist” explored the basic four different types of Data Scientist – ...

Online educational startup (and one of our Top 10 big data online learning resources) Udacity has closed a financing round ...

A study, conducted independently by Ponemon Institute with Experian Data Breach Resolution, reports that the frequency and magnitude of computer ...

A European team of physicists working in the lab of Professor Nicolas Gisin in the physics department at the University ...