IBM announced yesterday that it has acquired Rome-based cyber security firm CrossIdeas. Although the terms of the deal were not ...

Palantir, a big data company whose clientele includes the US Army and several government agencies, has been busy this week. ...

Twitter has just released the biannual transparency report, a compendium of government information requests, removal requests and copyright notices from ...

Poptip, a New York based startup that helps companies analyse online conversations and conduct social media surveys, announced this week ...

We interviewed Matt Anthony (VP of Marketing) and Raj Bandyopadhyay (Principal Data Scientist) at Pindrop Security to learn more about how the ...

We've all had that moment with online shopping where a website has made a comically poor recommendation. I've bought books ...

Following on from yesterday's report on how Microsoft and Amazon are giving cloud computing grants to the data science eco-warriors ...

It was recently reported that Snapchat is in talks with Chinese Internet giant Alibaba for a new round of financing ...

Press Release: Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the launch of the Red ...

Back in June, it seemed like the whole of the internet had taken to their keyboards to write furious responses ...

ThetaRay, an Israeli cyber security startup, on Tuesday announced that it has raised $10 million from investors. Participants in the ...

Open data is becoming an increasingly powerful tool; especially when it has cloud resources and analytics tools from industry leaders ...

The past few years have seen a flurry of computer vision acquisitions by industry-leading websites- Google got DNNResearch, Pinterest acquired ...

In a recent piece on the New York Times, Harvard's Dr. Mullainathan talks about investigating claims of planned obsolescence in ...

Birst, the global leader in Cloud BI, today announced that Dialogue Group, a global application-to-person (A2P) messaging and mobile billing specialist, ...

Press Release: MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced that it is one of ...

Dynamic data integration for distributed architectures with more fragmented data sets need data quality and master data management to bridge ...

Actian Corporation have just unveiled their Big Data 2.0 Clear Path Program, designed to help jump-start analytics projects and aid ...

The San Francisco 49ers recently opened their new $1.2 billion Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, which can seat 68,500 fans. ...

This June has been a busy month for Apple. While Apple’s acquisitions have historically been low-key affairs, this month has ...

In Taiwan, the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and Fujitsu have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, that will see the ...

According to a recent report released by Tata Consultancy Services, enterprises are recognising the importance of digital initiatives to their ...

Max Kanaskar is an Associate for Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company). He has extensive experience in IT capability development and data ...

A little known fact: the amount of possible routes a UPS driver could take between his 175-200 dropoffs is so ...

The IBM Watson team have announced the first consumer-facing commerical use of Watson's natural language technology. The technology will be ...

Google X has launched a new initiative called “Baseline Study” which aims to help clinicians and doctors better understand the ...

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo last week announced a $55 million grant for a number of projects at the ...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), UK’s data protection watchdog, today released a 50-page report warning businesses to not forget their ...

It's becoming increasingly clear that possessing big data and extracting value from it are two entirely different things. In discussion ...

Usually, Dataconomy's primary focus is so-called "big data". Whilst this dataset is small, the human impact is about as big ...

If you ever need a quick statistic on how rapidly data grows, I refer you to this real-time visualisation. It ...

Following on from our recent report on music streaming service Spotify, we were wondering about how much musicians actually get ...

Data centres are the cornerstone of the internet. As this infographic states, "Digital files may not take up space in ...

In the age of the internet, the adage "If the service is free, you're the product" reigns supreme. You only ...

This week saw the Dataconomy team concluding our "History of BI" series, trying to predict the value of virtual currency ...

The explosion of data in recent years has resulted in huge demand for not only storage and processing solutions, but ...

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner Julie Brill has voiced concerns about the way consumer apps collect and use health data. ...

Hewlett-Packard yesterday announced a $50 million investment in Hortonworks, a big data company that provides enterprise version of Apache Hadoop ...

Synapsify, a startup whose software ranks the most important statements in a body of text, have announced a new £85,000 ...

This year marks the 101st anniversary of the world’s largest annual sporting event, “Le Tour de France.”  The three-week competition attracts ...

We met with Adam Drake to hear his thoughts on Machine Learning and the Big Data ecosystem. Adam is currently ...

The European Central Bank admitted today that hackers have broken into its database and stolen personal information. The ECB said ...

Big Data has been making noise in almost every facet of corporate America.  From targeted marketing to reducing manufacturing defects, ...

At Cisco's recent IoE symposium in Chicago, the commander of public safety information technology for the Chicago Police Department discussed ...

Last year, 28,594 organs were transplanted in the US. Although this seems like an impressive number, it pales in comparison ...

Almost six months after the purchase of BlueKai, Oracle has announced two new services to “help business users drive smarter, ...

Tata Consultancy Services (TSC) announced earlier this week a new partnership with MapR to help enterprise customers leverage big data ...

Mark Lewis is the Senior Director of Marketing at Cloudera. Cloudera offers a unified platform for big data; its enterprise ...

In the 1940s, IMB President Thomas Watson allegedly predicted the world would need only five computers. Over the past decade, ...

Bose Corporation have posted a raft of new job oppurtunities on LinkedIn, based around machine learning, data science and network ...