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This week has seen many announcements in the data science arena that will make our lives a little easier. The ...

The idea to provide the latest in any format of news, also known as ‘horserace journalism’ is probably as old ...

Eran Barak, CEO of security startup Hexadite believes that security technology has become very sophisticated with the vast majority of ...

Cloud management startup StrataCloud, a company that helps manage VMware-based data center environments, raised $2 million in seed funding to ...

Privacy group, Center for Digital Democracy, has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, naming thirty U.S. data ...

Yahoo launched Yahoo Stores, the new redux ecommerce platform that is “completely reimagined, next-generation version” of the original with new ...

We have explored several interesting distributed key-value databases including HBase and Accumulo, Riak, and Cassandra. Although key-value pairs are very flexible, it is tedious ...

Bayes Impact, a non-profit organisation that helps students use big data for social good, is launching Bayes Impact University Programme ...

The amount of money spent on US election campaigns continues to rise and rise. Obama spent a staggering $1 billion ...

Parkinson’s is neurodegenerative brain disease that affects almost 5 million people worldwide, and is second only to Alzheimer’s in global ...

When a new job title is created and introduced to an organization, the immediate response is typically a combination of ...

Qlik, a leader in data discovery, today announced that National Express Coach is using the QlikView Business Discovery platform to gain ...

Disrputive taxi service provider Uber has seemingly found out a way to maximize its earnings by figuring out exactly how ...

Advanced analytics provider, Fractal Analytics, has formed a global strategic alliance with Loyalty Management giant, Aimia. As a result Aimia ...

Voice-based marketing automation service provider, Ifbyphone, is coming up with a new release to manage and measure inbound sales and ...

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has made swift changes to its MIUI Cloud Messaging service to halt the security worries caused ...

EU researchers are developing an interactive tool which presents data the way a user would prefer and, in order to ...

Many people ask my opinion on different NoSQL databases, and they also want to know the benchmark numbers. I guess ...

General Electric has disclosed the setting up of a data lake software approach to make gathering and analysis of Big ...

British Prime Minister, David Cameron recently pledged a £300m government support for a big data human-genome mapping project in England. ...

Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS),U.K., the organisation responsible for managing university and college applications, will incorporate Splunk to help ...

Google has quietly come up with a service that some of its employees worked on called CoLaboratory. Once the Google ...

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 ...