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 ...

Four months ago, Dataconomy reported a funding story on Context Relevant, a predictive analytics company that managed to raise $28 ...

It's no secret that in-memory, real-time applications have been gaining ground for quite some time. The idea that data should ...

The explosion of hype around the term "big data" ushered in a rabid desire in companies big and small to ...

TIBCO Software Inc today announced that TIBCO Jaspersoft®, the “Intelligence Inside” applications and business processes, and Artha Solutions, a leading provider ...

Researchers at Dartmouth College have been working on a solution to work around the shortcomings of inactivity timeouts and other ...

Cloud based business analytics provider, Numerify, partnered with Sequoia Capital to net $15 million in Series B funding round, bringing ...

Following the breach at Home Depot payment card systems brought to light earlier this month, there are reports of fraudulent ...

First of all, this is a terrible thing that has happened to these women. It is certainly some form of ...

It was announced earlier this week that Radius, a marketing intelligence platform, has secured $54.7 million in series C funding. ...

The International Data Corporation (IDC) has revealed in its 2014 Western Europe Enterprise Mobility Survey that Western Europe is relentlessly increasing ...

Tuesday saw visionary Ray Ozzie and his team launch a redux of the the classic ‘phone call’, in an app ...

The Apache Software Foundation has declared Apache Storm a top-level project, marking a major step towards its maturity as a ...

Few things have revolutionized the business landscape quite like virtualization. What began as groundbreaking new technology available only to the ...

Birst, the global leader in Cloud BI, is officially announcing the availability of Birst Express for NetSuite, a free analytics ...

Still basking in the glory of recently appearing on our 10 Machine Learning Experts list (we can only assume), Andrew ...