For those businesses intent on seizing upon it, big data is proving to be an effective way to optimize operations, ...

Inspired by the brain’s structure, Scientists collaborating with IBM’s Brain-Inspired Computing group, have developed an efficient, scalable, and flexible Non–von ...

Facebook has acquired cyber-security firm, PrivateCore, as a move towards reinforcing its bastions in order to ward off online data ...

Guesswork, a machine learning service built on the Google Predict API, announced last week the launch of a machine learning ...

Gemalto, a digital security services provider based in Netherlands, is set to buy the U.S.-based data protection specialist SafeNet for ...

Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have designed a programming method which allows the use of numerous other programming languages ...

The idea of the smart and talented in the hinterlands packing their bags and heading for the city is a ...

Yesterday, we reported on how bad the wildfire situation in California has become. But even when they're not fighting fires, ...

This new infographic from open, secure RFID Asset Management providers RF Code looks into the hidden costs of manual data ...

You're an extremely talented engineering high school senior, and the future looks bright. You're well on track to obtaining the ...

We're in the midst of a health data revolution, with the Internet of Things and digitisation of health records meaning ...

This week, we reported a news piece on how NHL teams are investing heavily in analytics. The Edmonton Oilers, for ...

This week, Google released a research paper revealing a new data warehousing system – dubbed Mesa -- relating to the ...

This week, we have a special line up of interesting big data news and articles. Alexandre Passant,  the co-founder of Music & ...

California is in the throes of a wildfire epidemic. Wildfires have their purpose- they often help to maintain the overall ...

Advanced analytics has been disrupting sports for a number of years, and now it’s extending its influence into Hockey. Earlier ...

Splunk have just announced a 33% price cut on their cloud-based operational intelligence offering, as well as guaranteeing 100% uptime. ...

Gabriel Lowy is the Founder of Tech-Tonics Advisors. During the past 16 years, he has been consistently recognized as a leading ...

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

According to a recent article in The Economic Times, Microsoft is assessing the possibility of building its first data centre in ...

MongoDB, the billion-dollar NoSQL database startup, yesterday announced the appointment of Dev Ittycheria as the new President and CEO, starting ...

To say that the cloud computing market was exploding would be an understatement. In July, we heard multiple reports supporting ...

Adatao, a startup in the big data analytics space, yesterday announced it has raised $13 million in series A funding ...

Oxford University have just been given the go-ahead by planning officials to construct a £45m Big Data Institute, thought to ...

In-memory database VoltDB, reported that their New SQL in-memory database can provide almost five times faster application performance for Fast ...

Data-Integration and visualisation vendor Tibco Software has been looking for potential buyers, revealed Wall Street Journal earlier this week. The ...

In the US, the National Center for Atmospheric News (NCAR) are using Globus Plus to increase data access and forge ...

The Global big data market is estimated to be worth $46 Billion by 2018. The report "Big Data Market By ...

Druva, an Enterprise Data Back-up solutions provider and endpoint data governance pioneer, landed $25 million in Series D round from ...

Database-as-a-service provider MongoHQ announced that it now offers ElasticSearch as a service through its platform. In recognition of its expansion beyond MongoDB to ...

Machine Learning - mining already available data to predict trends and patterns - is increasingly becoming integrated into the fabric ...

This week saw the publishing of the first major report in the size and breadth of London's theatre scene. The ...

Network performance signal mapper OpenSignal has landed $4 million in its first round of funding, driven by Qualcomm Ventures (the ...

Metanautix, Big Data analytics startup coming out of stealth-mode, has raised $7 million Series A financing round, partnering with Sequoia ...

In April this year, the UK cabinet data sharing policy team put forward a plan to amalgamate databases that different ...

Global Media and Marketing Services Company Mindshare and Singapore based Big Data Analytics firm Crayon Data have engaged in an ...

Geneticist and entrepreneur J. Craig Venter has hired Franz Josef Och, the leading man at Google Translate, to help decrypt ...

A Big Data and Advanced Analytics Survey has revealed the growing the need for real-time complex event processing (CEP) other ...

comScore, a company that tracks and analyses the quality of Web traffic, yesterday announced the acquisition of MdotLabs, a startup ...

Researchers from MIT, Microsoft Research, and Adobe Research have been collaborating on an intriguing project. They are experimenting with recovering ...

It is widely believed that predicting natural elements- the spread of wildfire, or disease, for example- is entirely possible. Yet ...

Rackspace, one of the leading providers of hybrid clouds, yesterday announced the launch of a summer school programme to train ...

Cloud computing company, Salesforce has launched the next generation of its exhaustive customer journey management platform ‘Journey Builder’. The application ...

In order to address the lack of skilled data scientists in Europe, Professional Services giant, KPMG and London based training ...

A recent report from Synergy Research Group showed some interesting figures around the companies leading the way for cloud infrastructure ...

"Big data" has a reputation problem in Japan. Spates of hacking, theft and government misuse of personal data have meant ...

OpenTable, the company that helps customers reserve tables at restaurants, announced last week the acquisition of Copilot Labs, a startup ...

US Attorney General Eric Holder spoke on Friday about the risks posed by big data in the criminal justice system. ...

This week, the realm of data privacy has been rife with new announcements. From OkCupid's user experiments, to Twitter's latest ...

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