American whistleblower in exile, Edward Snowden, has revealed the existence of a secret search engine, ICReach for sharing citizen metadata ...
Social bookmarking innovator Pinterest, announced on Tuesday, the deployment of a free analytics dashboard that is tailor made for advertisers ...
Datanyze, the sales prospecting tool powered by technology data, grabbed $2 million in seed funding round on Tuesday. The round ...
Press Release- Logi Analytics the analytics everywhere company, today announced the release of Logi Vision 1.3, combining new analytical capabilities ...
Hilary Mason is something of a pioneer among data scientists and Big Data enthusiasts. And when she talks about Big ...
Big Data marches towards more imminent expansion this time as Chinese web services outfit Baidu announces that it is working ...
In what seems to be a subtle but significant step forward, neuroscientists have been able to study neural activity in ...
Amazon is raring to take on Google’s AdWords with its new ad placement platform called Amazon Sponsored Links. In a ...
In previous posts Distributed NoSQL: HBase and Accumulo and Distributed NoSQL: Riak, we explored two very different designs of key-value ...
Premier photo-sharing company, Instagram just released a string of advert-analytic tools with the aim to enable brands monitor the performance ...
In a move which could have students across the world weeping with joy, LinkedIn have mined their data pool to ...
Microsoft’s latest offering on Windows Azure is the non-relational DocumentDB - a fully managed NoSQL document database, and a search ...
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), a leading national research center in Germany, is working with IBM to tackle its massive data processing, ...
As Albert Einstein once said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” The good people ...
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This week saw several huge funding announcements in the big data sphere. Israeli cyber security startup GuardiCore raised $11 million ...
Shipment and Logistics service provider UPS is the latest to have been affected by an online security breach. Chelsea Lee, ...
In what seems to be one of the largest HIPAA security breaches that has affected the US, information such as ...
The class action filed against the social networking site earlier this month, which could become Europe's largest data privacy suit, ...
Nervana Systems, a San Diego based outfit that has been causing some chatter with its Deep learning applications initiatives, has ...
Last week I attended a partner sales event and was dismayed (unsurprised) to learn that the confusion associated with the ...
In previous post Distributed NoSQL: HBase and Accumulo, we explored two BigTable-like open source solutions. In this post we will learn about Riak, ...
Jetpac, photo recognition startup that analyses the pictures from Instagram and recommends travel destinations, was acquired by tech giant Google ...
Amongst the memes, trolling, and procrastination aids in every form imaginable, community platforms such as Reddit offer a fascinating insight ...
Zumigo Corporation, a company specialising in mobile device location and identity verification, today announced it is an inaugural member of the Wells ...
MongoDB, the leading NoSQL database, announced the availability of Production Support for MongoDB for the free-to-download Community Edition. This allows ...
Red Hat, Inc. the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced Open Virtual Appliance for Red Hat Enterprise ...
BlockCorp, a cryptocurrency research and development company, has released its latest platform for bitcoin analytics, BlockTrail, competing with the likes ...
According to Gartner, 80% of data created today is unstructured. No data could be less structured than the vast ocean ...
Sander Dieleman, a Spotify intern and Ph.D. student has published a lengthy report on his grand plans to revolutionise Spotify's ...
Kevin Wong <3's Data. We recently caught up with Kevin Wong, a business intelligence professional and machine learning enthusiast, to ...
The futuristic idea of shops knowing your age, gender and race when you walk into a store and targeting products ...
Big Data startup Everstring has acquired $12 million in funding which it intends to utilize in enlisting more data scientists ...
Gartner has released this year's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, a report that looks at technologies that are -- or ...
Defensive shifting, in baseball, started as a trend several years ago and is rapidly becoming core strategy with major league ...
Up until this point, startup DataGravity have been rather secretive about the data-aware solutions they’re developing. But now they’ve released ...
Community Health Systems, a major US hospital group in the US, yesterday announced that hackers stole approximately 4.5 million records ...
Israeli cyber security startup GuardiCore yesterday announced that it has raised $11 million in a series A funding. The investment ...
For those of you uninitiated with The Ice Bucket Challenge, the basic premise is as follows: a person has a ...
We're on the verge of a wearable technology revolution. Although the reception of Google Glass left a lot to be ...
SiSense, a leader in big data analytics for business users, today announced the appointment of Mark Ferretti to the position of Vice ...
NoSQL (Not Only SQL) database, departing from relational model, is a hot term nowadays although the name is kind of ...
Online learning management system Desire2Learn Inc. recently scored $85 million in its second round of funding. With the new funding, ...
The U.S. Government’s regulator of federal securities, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly utilising Big Data analytics processes ...
Facebook, for some time now, has been augmenting its advertising services in order to prove its mobile ads are effective. ...
Nasuni, a cloud-integrated storage provider for the global enterprise that combines on-premise hardware with cloud storage, has struck a $10 ...
This week, guest contributor Sean Farrington delved into the world of professional data scientists and chief data officers, looking to ...
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